From the History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography by Thomas McAdory Owen, LL.D (1933), pp. 196-198.
BRADFORD, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, was born July 27, 1829, at Huntsville, and died April 3, 1879, at Scottsboro; son of Daniel Morgan and Mary Booker (Lamkin) Bradford (q. v.); grandson of William and Catherine (Morgan) Bradford and of Col. Griffin and Elizabeth Lamkin of Fauquier County, Va.; great-grandson of Joseph Bennett Bradford. Col. Bradford was educated in the schools of Huntsville, and at the age of eighteen enlisted for service in the Mexican War. He was first lieutenant in Co. H, and Co. D, Thirteenth regiment, U. S. infantry, and served in the battles of Monterey, Vera Cruz, Resaca de la Palma, and the City of Mexico, under command of General Zachary Taylor.
After the war, he attended law school at Lebanon, Tenn., during the presidency of Judge Carothers, and was graduated as valedictorian of his class, 1850. He practiced law in Huntsville; was elected to the State legislature; moved to Bellefontaine and practiced law there until the beginning of the War of Secession. He enlisted in the C. S. Army, organizing Co. H, Fifty-fifth Alabama regiment, of which he was captain. He was promoted to colonel and served with distinction until the end of the war. He resumed his profession at Scottsboro and practiced there until his death.
He was a Democrat and was known as the "silver-tongued orator of North Alabama." Married: October 19, 1854, at "Oakwood," near Huntsville, Annie Watkins, daughter of William and Harriet (Anderson) Watkins of Huntsville; granddaughter of William and Susan Watkins of Georgia and of John and Mary Anderson who lived near Baltimore, Md., before moving to Alabama, the latter a descendant of John, brother of Sir William Wallace of Scotland. The Watkins family is descended from one of three Welsh brothers who settled in the Chickahominy Valley, Va. Children:
1. Eva, m. Dr. James L. Timberlake of Stevenson, resides in Blue Mountain, Ark., one son, Lester P.;
2. Annie, m. R. LeRoy Newton, resides in Houston, Tex., three sons Roy, Percy, and Clifford;
3. Percy, Blue Mountain, Ark.; and three sons who are deceased. Last residence: Scottsboro.
BRADFORD, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, was born July 27, 1829, at Huntsville, and died April 3, 1879, at Scottsboro; son of Daniel Morgan and Mary Booker (Lamkin) Bradford (q. v.); grandson of William and Catherine (Morgan) Bradford and of Col. Griffin and Elizabeth Lamkin of Fauquier County, Va.; great-grandson of Joseph Bennett Bradford. Col. Bradford was educated in the schools of Huntsville, and at the age of eighteen enlisted for service in the Mexican War. He was first lieutenant in Co. H, and Co. D, Thirteenth regiment, U. S. infantry, and served in the battles of Monterey, Vera Cruz, Resaca de la Palma, and the City of Mexico, under command of General Zachary Taylor.
After the war, he attended law school at Lebanon, Tenn., during the presidency of Judge Carothers, and was graduated as valedictorian of his class, 1850. He practiced law in Huntsville; was elected to the State legislature; moved to Bellefontaine and practiced law there until the beginning of the War of Secession. He enlisted in the C. S. Army, organizing Co. H, Fifty-fifth Alabama regiment, of which he was captain. He was promoted to colonel and served with distinction until the end of the war. He resumed his profession at Scottsboro and practiced there until his death.
He was a Democrat and was known as the "silver-tongued orator of North Alabama." Married: October 19, 1854, at "Oakwood," near Huntsville, Annie Watkins, daughter of William and Harriet (Anderson) Watkins of Huntsville; granddaughter of William and Susan Watkins of Georgia and of John and Mary Anderson who lived near Baltimore, Md., before moving to Alabama, the latter a descendant of John, brother of Sir William Wallace of Scotland. The Watkins family is descended from one of three Welsh brothers who settled in the Chickahominy Valley, Va. Children:
1. Eva, m. Dr. James L. Timberlake of Stevenson, resides in Blue Mountain, Ark., one son, Lester P.;
2. Annie, m. R. LeRoy Newton, resides in Houston, Tex., three sons Roy, Percy, and Clifford;
3. Percy, Blue Mountain, Ark.; and three sons who are deceased. Last residence: Scottsboro.
From the History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography by Thomas McAdory Owen, LL.D (1933), pp. 196-198.
BRADFORD, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, was born July 27, 1829, at Huntsville, and died April 3, 1879, at Scottsboro; son of Daniel Morgan and Mary Booker (Lamkin) Bradford (q. v.); grandson of William and Catherine (Morgan) Bradford and of Col. Griffin and Elizabeth Lamkin of Fauquier County, Va.; great-grandson of Joseph Bennett Bradford. Col. Bradford was educated in the schools of Huntsville, and at the age of eighteen enlisted for service in the Mexican War. He was first lieutenant in Co. H, and Co. D, Thirteenth regiment, U. S. infantry, and served in the battles of Monterey, Vera Cruz, Resaca de la Palma, and the City of Mexico, under command of General Zachary Taylor.
After the war, he attended law school at Lebanon, Tenn., during the presidency of Judge Carothers, and was graduated as valedictorian of his class, 1850. He practiced law in Huntsville; was elected to the State legislature; moved to Bellefontaine and practiced law there until the beginning of the War of Secession. He enlisted in the C. S. Army, organizing Co. H, Fifty-fifth Alabama regiment, of which he was captain. He was promoted to colonel and served with distinction until the end of the war. He resumed his profession at Scottsboro and practiced there until his death.
He was a Democrat and was known as the "silver-tongued orator of North Alabama." Married: October 19, 1854, at "Oakwood," near Huntsville, Annie Watkins, daughter of William and Harriet (Anderson) Watkins of Huntsville; granddaughter of William and Susan Watkins of Georgia and of John and Mary Anderson who lived near Baltimore, Md., before moving to Alabama, the latter a descendant of John, brother of Sir William Wallace of Scotland. The Watkins family is descended from one of three Welsh brothers who settled in the Chickahominy Valley, Va. Children:
1. Eva, m. Dr. James L. Timberlake of Stevenson, resides in Blue Mountain, Ark., one son, Lester P.;
2. Annie, m. R. LeRoy Newton, resides in Houston, Tex., three sons Roy, Percy, and Clifford;
3. Percy, Blue Mountain, Ark.; and three sons who are deceased. Last residence: Scottsboro.
BRADFORD, HENRY CLAY, lawyer, was born July 27, 1829, at Huntsville, and died April 3, 1879, at Scottsboro; son of Daniel Morgan and Mary Booker (Lamkin) Bradford (q. v.); grandson of William and Catherine (Morgan) Bradford and of Col. Griffin and Elizabeth Lamkin of Fauquier County, Va.; great-grandson of Joseph Bennett Bradford. Col. Bradford was educated in the schools of Huntsville, and at the age of eighteen enlisted for service in the Mexican War. He was first lieutenant in Co. H, and Co. D, Thirteenth regiment, U. S. infantry, and served in the battles of Monterey, Vera Cruz, Resaca de la Palma, and the City of Mexico, under command of General Zachary Taylor.
After the war, he attended law school at Lebanon, Tenn., during the presidency of Judge Carothers, and was graduated as valedictorian of his class, 1850. He practiced law in Huntsville; was elected to the State legislature; moved to Bellefontaine and practiced law there until the beginning of the War of Secession. He enlisted in the C. S. Army, organizing Co. H, Fifty-fifth Alabama regiment, of which he was captain. He was promoted to colonel and served with distinction until the end of the war. He resumed his profession at Scottsboro and practiced there until his death.
He was a Democrat and was known as the "silver-tongued orator of North Alabama." Married: October 19, 1854, at "Oakwood," near Huntsville, Annie Watkins, daughter of William and Harriet (Anderson) Watkins of Huntsville; granddaughter of William and Susan Watkins of Georgia and of John and Mary Anderson who lived near Baltimore, Md., before moving to Alabama, the latter a descendant of John, brother of Sir William Wallace of Scotland. The Watkins family is descended from one of three Welsh brothers who settled in the Chickahominy Valley, Va. Children:
1. Eva, m. Dr. James L. Timberlake of Stevenson, resides in Blue Mountain, Ark., one son, Lester P.;
2. Annie, m. R. LeRoy Newton, resides in Houston, Tex., three sons Roy, Percy, and Clifford;
3. Percy, Blue Mountain, Ark.; and three sons who are deceased. Last residence: Scottsboro.
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