{"id":3152,"date":"2022-01-10T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:32:29","slug":"bradford-williamson-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/bradford-williamson-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford, Williamson R."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Williamson R. Bradford<\/strong>, citizen and farmer of the northern part of Lauderdale<br \/>\nCounty, was born September 21, 1836, in the same county. His father was a<br \/>\nnative of North Carolina, who came to Tennessee, and settled in the southern<br \/>\npart of Lauderdale County. He was married in North Carolina, to Elizabeth<br \/>\nCarrigan, a native of that State and a daughter of John Carrigan, who was a<br \/>\nnative of Ireland. In 1826 the family came to Tennessee and located near<br \/>\nDurhamville, where the children, eight in number, were raised and educated.<br \/>\nThe father was a farmer and moved to the Seventh District in 1861, where he<br \/>\ndied December 1, 1869, and the mother died at the home of our subject in<br \/>\nApril, 1872. W. R. Bradford was raised on a farm; he enlisted in the<br \/>\nConfederate Army and belonged to the First Regiment of Cavalry, under Col.<br \/>\nCox, and participated in the battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and<br \/>\nMissionary Ridge, Jonesboro, Ga., and Perryville, Ky. He enlisted in January<br \/>\n1862, and served until he was surrendered with Wheeler&#8217;s command at<br \/>\nGainesville, Ala. Mr. Bradford was married in Lauderdale County, December 17,<br \/>\n1866, to Lavina Powell, a daughter of Elias Powell, a farmer of Middle<br \/>\nTennessee. Four children were born to them; two living: Ophelia A. and Emmet<br \/>\nB. Mrs. Bradford was born in Williamson County, November 28, 1842. Mr.<br \/>\nBradford was an old line Whig, but is now a Democrat. He owns a farm of 200<br \/>\nacres, and is regarded as one of the substantial men of the county, being<br \/>\nupright in all of his dealings, and generous in disposition.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williamson R. Bradford, citizen and farmer of the northern part of Lauderdale County, was born September 21, 1836, in the same county. His father was a native of North Carolina, who came to Tennessee, and settled in the southern part <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/bradford-williamson-r\/\"><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":"","_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-3152","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\/3152","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=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}