Parents: Joel Jefferson Bradshaw II and Mary Catherine McBride.

Joel Jefferson Bradshaw II was b. 8 Dec. 1792, South Carolina; d. 14 Sept. 1862, Fairfield, Jefferson Co., Iowa. He and other members of his family are buried in the Bradshaw Cem., Jefferson Co., Iowa (a small family cem).

Joel Jefferson Bradshaw II, married 3 times:
1. Mary C. McBride (m. 1811)
2. Mary M. Jenkins (m. 1821)
3. Jane L. McBride (m. 1830)

Some of the Bradshaw family resided in Jefferson Co., Iowa Territory by the 1830s.

1850 U.S. Census for Cedar Twsp, Jefferson Co., Iowa (25 Sept):
Joel Bradshaw M 58 Tennessee; farmer
Lucinda Bradshaw F 47 Tennessee
Wm Bradshaw M 22 Tennessee
Vance Bradshaw M 19 Tennessee
Pristo Bradshaw M 13 Illinois
Susan Bradshaw F 11 Iowa
Nancy Bradshaw F 11 Iowa
Charlotte Bradshaw F 7 Iowa

Joel's real estate property was worth $1000.

Note: A James & John Bradshaw with their wives and children are living nearby; both are farmers. Both were born in Tenn. James is 27 & John is 28. Charles' brothers? John is buried in Evergreen Cem., Fairfield, Jefferson Co., Iowa (Memorial 39812671).


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Charles married Anna Cyrus 4 Oct. 1834 in McDonough Co., Ill.

1850 U.S. Census for Hancock Co., Ill (19 Nov):
Charles Bradshaw M 33 Tennessee; farmer
Ann Bradshaw F 33 Tennessee
William Bradshaw M 15 yrs, b. 23 Nov. 1835 in Vermont Township, Fulton Co., Illinois
Mary E Bradshaw F 11 yrs, b. 1838 Illinois
Rebecca C Bradshaw F 10 yrs, b. 1840 Illinois
Nancy A Bradshaw F 8 mos, b. April 1850; [d. 1851] Ill.

1860 U.S. Census for La Harpe Township, Hancock Co., Illinois finds Charles, 43 years, b. 1817, Tenn; fam #5102. It appears that his son William and his wife are living next to him.

1870 U.S. Census for La Harpe Twnshp, Hancock Co., Ill. (29 June):
C.P. Bradshaw, 53 yrs, b. Tenn.; farmer
Anna Bradshaw, 52 yrs, b. Tenn.

They are living near son William M. Bradshaw.

In the same 1870 census, living 3 households away from the Bradshaws is the Andrew and Ann M. Neal household. They have 3 children: Mary (8 yrs), George Wm (6 yrs), & Eliza A. (3 yrs).

Apparently Charles and Anna were divorced as she did not pass away until 1893 and the 1880 census shows Charles married to another woman.

1880 U.S. Census for La Harpe, Hancock Co., Illinois:
Charles Bradshaw M 63 yrs, b. 1817 Tennessee
wife Maria Bradshaw F 35 yrs, b. 1845 Illinois
son Charles Bradshaw M 8 yrs, b. 1872 Illinois
son Joel H. Bradshaw M 1 yr, b. 1879 Illinois
step-son George Neel M 15 Illinois
step-daughter Eliza Neel F 11 Illinois

Apparently Charles & Joel are Charles & Ann Maria's (2nd wife) children.


Note: Daughter Mary Elizabeth m. John Stine ca 1856. He was a school teacher and worked farms in season. In 1857, he bought 100 acres in La Harpe Township, Hancock Co., Ill. which he managed for 5 years before selling the property in order to purchase 80 acres in Raritan Township, Henderson Co., Ill. In 1866, he bought a farm in Terre Haute Township upon which he lived the remainder of his life. Upon his death he owned 880 acres in one body and cultivated and and 490 acres in different parts of Henderson Co. He d. April 5, 1905 and Elizabeth d. May 10, 1907. They had 6 children. They are buried in the Terre Haute Cemetery, Terre Haute, Henderson Co., Ill.