This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: VivianCates50 Surnames: BRADLEY/CRE(i)SWELL/SIMS LANSDALE(VS. SP?) Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southcarolina.counties.abbeville/2326/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I recently resubscribed to the Abbeville District/County, South Carolina e-mail list to take another "crack" at my husband's Bradley line after about 40 years of off and on research on this line. I have found several "goodies" in the newspaper abstracts currently being posted to this board and e-mail list including the one quoted below. I am seeking to prove beyond Henry M.(Malone? various spelling and pron.??)Bradley, Sr. born 1818 in the Long Cane area of Abbeville District, South Carolina. Henry M. Bradley, Sr. moved from Alabama to east Texas in 1887 and died at Pennington on the Houston-Trinity County line in 1888. On the 1820 Abbeville census I find a young John Bradley living between an Abraham Lansdale(various spellings)and a Waller Sims followed by several Lindsay households. All three men are missing in 1830. Henry M. Bradley, Sr. came as a school teacher to Pike County, Alabama, about 1845. In Pike Co. in 1848 Henry Bradley married Mary Elizabeth Cowart. He had a sister, Saphronia b.c. 1810-1820 m._?_, who lived in Talladaga County, Alabama, at one time, no year on the on the old letter. In Alabama he is supposed to have had an Aunt Polly Sims and an Uncle Abraham Lansdale(vr. sp?) I recently found a descendant of Waller Sims whose wife was supposed to have been Mary Bradley. That researcher was stuck in Alabama in the 1830's. Where was Waller Sims in 1830 census? In 1878 and 1880 Henry M. Bradley and William Kidd Bradley of the prominant Long Cane Presbyterian Bradleys corresponded and called each other cousin. What was the connection? I am trying to account for all of the family connections William Kidd Bradley mentioned in the two letters of which I have transcriptions. In one letter William Kidd Bradley mentions that Uncle Johnnie Creswell and Aunt Peggy are still living. I have not been able to pin down these two people on the census. Are they the two people mentioned below by the census taker in 1870? Were they actually related by blood and/or marriage or were they just honorary titles bestowed by the "community?" If they were blood kin how were they related to William Kidd Bradley? Were these two Bradley lines connected or did they just call each other "cousin" because of the same last name in the same area? ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, AUGUST 5, 1870 ITEMS FROM THE CENSUS TAKER We are indebted to Mr. E.W. Moore, one of the Assistant Marshalls for taking the Census in our district, for the following items, gathered from the records: John CRESWELL and wife, aged 83 and 75 years respetively, natives of the district, residents of that section in our district known as "Ireland", have scarcely ever been beyond sight of their own chimneys, and strange to say they have never seen a railroad car. They still indulge the hope of being gratified before they die. All assistance appreciated. Vivian Cates, Texas 21 West, Alto Texas 1-936-858-3801 http://www.inu.net/vcates Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.