{"id":3150,"date":"2022-01-10T14:31:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:35:38","slug":"bradford-richard-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/bradford-richard-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford, Richard C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard C. Bradford<\/strong>, a resident and farmer of Lauderdale County, Tenn., was<br \/>\nborn in Carroll Parish, La., October 15, 1861. His grandfather, John Bradford,<br \/>\nwas born in England about 1780, and came to the United States about 1807,<br \/>\nmarried in Virginia, and in 1820 moved to Illinois, and soon after moved to<br \/>\nwhat is now Lauderdale County, where he raised his family and died in 1873.<br \/>\nOur subject&#8217;s father, John S. Bradford, was born near Durhamville, Lauderdale<br \/>\nCounty, September, 1831. When twenty-two, he went to Louisiana, where he was<br \/>\nan overseer until 1855, when he returned to Tennessee and married Miss V. A.<br \/>\nBrowning, a sister of Hon. R. H. Browning, and daughter of Leven Browning, a<br \/>\nmerchant and farmer. After this they moved to Louisiana, and remained until<br \/>\nthe war, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army. After the war he moved to<br \/>\nMississippi, but two years later he returned to Lauderdale County, and died<br \/>\nJanuary 7, 1877. The mother was born in Nashville, and died while on a visit<br \/>\nto Calhoun County, Miss., June 22, 1878. Our subject was raised on the farm,<br \/>\nand, after attending the schools in the county, spent four years at McKenzie<br \/>\nCollege and a year and a half at the Vanderbilt University at Nashville. Mr.<br \/>\nBradford was married in Lauderdale County, February 14, 1884, to Miss Addie<br \/>\nTillman, a daughter of W. T. Tillman. One daughter, Erin, was born to them<br \/>\nJuly 25, 1885. The mother was born in Lauderdale County June 13, 1863. Mr.<br \/>\nBradford is a Democrat, but liberal in his political views, and his wife and<br \/>\nhimself belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is a frank,<br \/>\ngenerous disposition, and possesses fine business capacity. Mr. Bradford has<br \/>\n900 acres of land twelve miles north of Ripley, in a fertile, undulating<br \/>\nlocality. The dwelling is handsome, and a delightful home.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard C. Bradford, a resident and farmer of Lauderdale County, Tenn., was born in Carroll Parish, La., October 15, 1861. His grandfather, John Bradford, was born in England about 1780, and came to the United States about 1807, married in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/bradford-richard-c\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-bradford"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}