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Bradley County War of 1812 Veterans in John Wooten’s Scrapbook

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Jackie McClenahan indexed this compilation before she died in July, 1998 Caveat:  All transcribed information on a Web site is subject to error.  Some have reported errors in the data in Ms. McClenahan’s index. Transcribers cannot change information taken from … Continue reading →

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Bradley County Early Pioneers’ Biographies in John Wooten’s Scrapbook

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Jackie McClenahan indexed this compilation before she died in July, 1998 Caveat:  All transcribed information on a Web site is subject to error.  Some have reported errors in the data in Ms. McClenahan’s index. Transcribers cannot change information taken from … Continue reading →

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Will of Samuel Howard (1859)

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contributed by Martha Allen Kidwell I, Samuel Howard, do make and publish this my last will and testament. First, I direct that my funeral expenses, and any debts I may owe, may be paid as soon after my death, as … Continue reading →

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Manuscript Collection at Cleveland Public Library History Branch

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compiled and contributed by Barbara Fagen (date unspecified) Mss 1 Family history files compiled by students of Mrs. George E. Westerburg. Bradley High School. Cleveland, Tenn., (ca. 1937). 1. Osment family 2. Boone family 3. Still family 4. Stockburger family … Continue reading →

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Simmons Family

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  Click here to read the biography of Dr. Isham Clark Simmons. Typed information on the Chatata Valley Farm map (source unidentified): Detail from a modern-day map of rural area northeast of Cleveland in Bradley County, Tennessee. Wesley and Nancy … Continue reading →

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Thatch Family

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We recommend you search (link in right-hand menu) for numerous Thatch references in various records posted on this site.   Click here to read Thomas Early Thatch’s booklet, Brief Sketch of a Country Neighborhood in Bradley County, Eight Miles South … Continue reading →

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Samuel McSpadden Family

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contributed by: Martha Allen Kidwell Samuel McSpad(d)en according to old Bible records was born February 6, 1807 in Knox County, Kentucky. He was one of five children, with two older brothers, a younger sister and another sister. Soon after the … Continue reading →

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Margot Still Appointed Library’s History Branch Director (2016)

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Still assumes history branch director role August 6, 2016 | Cleveland Daily Banner (TN) Author/Byline: LARRY C. BOWERS Banner Staff Writer | Section: News   The Bradley County history branch of the public library on North Ocoee has a new … Continue reading →

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John Sinor (Siner), Jr. — 1785-1858

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Researched, written, and contributed by Marian Titsworth Dingman John Sinor, the son of John Sr and Mary Wetzel was born about 1785 in Bedford Co. Virginia. Little is know about his childhood, he grew up in Middlesex County Virginia shortly … Continue reading →

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Goodspeed’s History of Bradley County (1887)

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[Transcriber and contributor unidentified. Note paragraph breaks were inserted in long passages to make text more-readable.] From Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketches of from Twenty-Five to … Continue reading →

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