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PROFILE OVERVIEW

 
Full Name:
Jacob Bradford		 
 Known As:  
    
 Date of Birth:1834 
 Date of Death:May 30, 1864 
    
 Spouse:Nancy Davis 
    
 Father:Jacob Bradford Sr. 
 Mother:Charlotte Lemley 

TIMELINE

 
Birth:
1834
Greene, Pennsylvania, USA		 
 Marriage:at age 20 to Nancy Davis on March 9, 1854
Tyler County, West Virginia, USA		 
 Occupation:Farmer 
 Death:at age 30 on May 30, 1864 - cause of death: "Died in the Hands of the Enemy"
Cloyd's Mountain, Virginia, USA		 
 Burial:Unknown
Cloyd's Mountain, Virginia, USA		 

FAMILY TREE

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DID YOU KNOW?

 

 
   
 Military Casualty Sheet: Rank:  Private
Company: F
Regiment: 14
Arm: Inf.
State: West Virginia

Nature of Casualty: "Was wounded & captured at Cloyd's Mtn,"
"May 9, 1864, and died, in the hands of the enemy,
"May 30, 1864, while a prisoner of war."
 

 
   
 Spouse - Nancy Davis-Bradford-ClineBorn in 1837 to Jonathan Davis & Rebecah Lewman in Tyler County, West Virginia, USA.
Died October 31, 1915 in Jackson, West Virginia, USA at the age of 79
Buried at Pine Hill Cemetery in Ripley, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA
   
 Family:Jacob & Nancy Bradford had four children -- Dennis, Rebecca, Catharine & Emeline.
Nancy remarried after Jacob's death to Eli Cline. They had three children -- Laura, William & Eli.
 

 

Other:

 

View additional information about Jacob Bradford in our July 2020 edition of the Spiker Gazette.

 

PHOTO & IMAGE GALLERY

Jacob Bradford Wounded-Battle of Cloyd Mtn.
Jacob Bradford Wounded-Battle of Cloyd Mtn.

Clipped from The Wheeling Daily Intellligencer, Tuesday, June 14, 1864

Military Record: Appears on Returns as follows.

Jacob Bradford
Jacob Bradford

Edited on right.

Jacob Bradford Memorial
Jacob Bradford Memorial

Casualty Sheet

Regimental Descriptive Book

 

A Memorial was placed next to the plots of Isaac Monroe & Catherine Spiker at Indian Creek Baptist Cemetery in Washburn, WV.

Indian Creek Baptist Cemetery in Washburn, WV where Jacob Bradford's memorial was placed.


 

 

 

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