Kit Carson County, Colorado
Histories

Thomas Bradley, 8 South 42 West
 


Thomas claimed a quarter in section 9, 8 South 42 West, Kit Carson County in 1891.

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In 1870 Fayette County, Kentucky, Willian J. Bradley is 46, Mary A. Bradley 42, Allen Bradley 18, Maggie Bradley 14, Thomas Bradley 10, and Mary Bradley 70.
In 1885 Butler County, Kansas, E. J. Lepplemon is 43 Magie Lepplemon 27. born in Kentucky, and Thomas Bradley 25 born in Kentucky, single.

In 1900 Butler County, Nels, 68, has been married twenty years to Margaret B., born May 1856 in Kentucky.

November 1940 Wichita, Kansas " Mrs. Maggie Leppelman 84 pioneer resident of Augusta died Tuesday afternoon at her home She had been an Invalid the past three years Mrs Leppelman was bora In Lexington Ky and came to Augusta In 1880 She was the widow of Bnlel Leppelman early day resident of Augusta who died 25 years ago She was a member at the Episcopal church and in her earlier years was active in religious circles and was an active member of the Relief corps She is survived oxily by nieces and nephews Funeral services will be held In the Dunsford Funeral home in Augusta at 2 Thursday with burial in the Augusta cemetery "

THOMAS AND DORA

Thomas Bradley and Dora V. Southers married on November 9, 1886 in Mound City, Linn County, Kansas. He was 26, she was 18.
Thomas Bradley and Dora Smithers Bradley, bot 23, had Arnette on November 30, 1891 in Augusta, BUtler County, Kansas.

In 1900 Placerville, Colorado, Thomas Bradley is an ore sorter, born January 1860 in Kentucky, married 14 years to Dora Bradley 31 Wife, Dora E. Bradley 12 Daughter, and Hattie M. Bradley 2 Daughter.

October 1919 Delta " Mrs. Ralph Brown, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bradley of Placerville, returned home Monday. Her parent accompanied her as far as Delta on their way south for the winter."

June 5, 1930 "To Miss Evalyn Prewer, daughter of Mrs. Charles Malloy of Somerset, and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bradley of Delta is given the honor of being the first June bride of 1930 in Delta county. Miss Prewer and Earl VVelty, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Roberts of Delta, took the vows to love, honor and cherish at the home of the groom’s parents, 315 East Fourth street, and were pronounced man and wife by Rev. Emanuel Payne at 9:30 o’clock Sunday morning, June 1. Only the nearest relatives of the bride and groom witnesed the simple ceremony. Immediately following a wedding breakfast given by Mr. and Mrs. Roberts in their honor, Mr. and Mrs. Weltv left for Glen wood Springs where they will make their home.—Delta Independent."

Thomas Bradley , born 1860 , died 11 Oct 1934 , buried Delta Cemetery Delta, Delta County, Colorado, PLOT Block 5, Lot 481, Space 4 FindAGrave # 17356859.

Dora Bradley , born 1868 , died 28 Nov 1939 , buried Delta Cemetery Delta, Delta County, Colorado, PLOT Block 5, Lot 481, Space 5 FindAGrave # 17356788.

DORA ELLEN

In 1920 San Miguel County, Henry W. Prewer works a vanadium mine, 46, Ellen D. Prewer 31 Wife, Evelyn L. Prewer 9 Daughter, William J. Prewer 7 Son, Robert L. Prewer 5 Son, and Clarence E. Prewer 2 Son.

August 1920 Delta, Colorado " New residents of Delta are Harry Prewer and family, who came here Norwood and purchased the cottage at the corner of Fourth and belonging to H. H. Wolbert. Mrs. Prewer and her four children been here several weeks, but the husband and father arrived last week. Mrs. Prewer is a sister of Mrs. R. I. Brown of this city. "

William J. Prewer , born 1912 , died 1 Apr 1921 , buried Delta Cemetery Delta, Delta County, Colorado, PLOT Block 5, Lot 564, Space 1 FindAGrave # 24235035.

Clarence E. Prewer , born 1917 , died 15 Jun 1926 , buried Delta Cemetery Delta, Delta County, Colorado, PLOT Block 5, Lot 564, Space 2 FindAGrave # 24234979.

Harry W. Prewer , born 27 Sep 1872 Whepstead, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England , died 17 Oct 1926 Delta County, Colorado, , buried Delta Cemetery Delta, Delta County, Colorado, PLOT Block 5, Lot 564, Space 3 FindAGrave # 24235010.

Ellen Prewer and Barnie C. Malloy married on 15 Jul 1929 in Bowie, Delta County.

Dora Ellen Malloy , born Date 27 Feb 1888 , born Place Kansas , died Date 18 Dec 1959 , died Place San Diego Mother's Maiden Name Sauther Father's Surname Bradley.

HATTIE

Ralph was in Woods County, Oklahoma in 1900, with Abner 46, Emma J. Brown Wife 40 years Illinois, William O. Brown Son 20 years Kansas, Laurance E. Brown Son 14 years Kansas, Luella Brown Daughter 12 years Oklahoma. Sadie B. Brown Daughter 6 years Oklahoma, Martha A. Brown Daughter 9 years Kansas, Ralph I. Brown Son 4 years Oklahoma, Carie O. Brown Daughter 1 years Oklahoma, and Bessie M. Brown Daughter 17 years Kansas.


Ralph I. Brown and Hattie M. Bradley married on 14 Jun 1917 in Delta, Colorado.

October 1919 " Mrs. Ralph Brown, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bradley of Placerville, returned home Monday. Her parent accompanied her as far as Delta on their way south for the winter."

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brown welcomed a daughter to their home on Monday, June 12th, 1922.

July 1923 " Mrs. Ralph Brown and two children are here from Oakland visiting the lady’s sister, Mrs. H. W. Prewer, ahd her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bradley. "

In 1930 Josephine, Oregon, Ralph is 33, born in Oklahoma, no occupation, Hatie M. 32 born in California?, Margaret M. 11, Barbara E. 7, both born in Colorado, and James R. 72, widowed, born in Missouri.

On the same page is Lawrence E. Brown, 44, born in Kansas, Emma 39 Colorado, and three kids born in Colorado, one in California, and two in Oregon.

Ralph Irving Brown registered for WWII in Delta, born October 10, 1896 in Woods County, Oklahoma, Mrs. Hattie May Brown his reference.

"Graveside rites will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Pea Green Cemetery, Montrose, for Ralph Irving Brown, 736 Rood Avenua, Grand Junction, who died Tuesday following a short illness. Martin Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Brown was born Oct. 10, 1895, at Fairvlew, Okla.
A carpenter, he moved here from Colorado Springs in 1954.
Surviving are two daughters, whose names and addresses were not known to friends here; one sister, Mrs. Pete (Jessie) Rabaglino, Los Angeles, one brother, Lawrence Brown, Crescent City Calif., who was enroute today to Montrose to attend the funeral; one newphew, Edward Byers, Delta: and one niece. Mrs, Lenore Richard, Dalta."
Ralph I. Brown , born 1895 , died 1956 , buried Pea Green Cemetery Pea Green Corner, Montrose County, Colorado, FindAGrave # 20917807.
George A. Irey , died Date 19 Apr 1951 Obituary in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington - but this one was married to Evelyn in 1928....

Hattie M. Irey , born Date 9 Nov 1897 , died Date 18 Aug 1988, died in Curry County, Oregon, spouse George.


Barbare Elizabeth Brown, 19, daughter of Ralph I. Brown and Hattie Bradley, married Everett Charles Lamkin, also 19, on January 7, 1940 in Los Angeles.

Everett C. Lamkin 21, married Cherrie Opal Burrow, 16, daughter of Milton C. BUrrow and Effie Harlow, on November 21, 1941 in Los Angeles.

Cherrie Opal Burrow Lamkin , born 6 Dec 1924 Oklahoma, , died 30 Sep 2005 Saint Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia, , buried Cremated, Other FindAGrave # 168720095.

Everett C. Lamkin, born July 29, 1920 in Los Angeles, died April 7, 1993, last residence Hemet, RIverside County.

Barbara E. Brown, born 12 Jun 1922 in Colorado, married Oscar R. Huntoon on 26 Jul 1972 in Beaverhead County, Montana, .

February 13, 1985 " Barbara E. Huntoon, 62, died Monday at a Reno hospital. A native of Colorado, she was born June 12, 1922, and had lived in Fallon for 23 years. She was a housewife.
Surviving are her husband, Oscar of Fallon; daughter, DeAnn Wise and mother, Hattie Irey, both of Jamestown, sister, Margaret Mello of Crescent City, and four grandchildren. No funeral is scheduled."
Barbara Elizabeth Huntoon , born 1922 , died 28 Oct 1985 , buried Churchill County Cemetery Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada, PLOT Section 18 Lot 11 Space 3 FindAGrave # 92027602.

"John Wesley Huntoon was born in 1906, in California, to John Wesley Huntoon and Antoinette Ellen Huntoon (born Boman).
John married Mary Mae Huntoon. Mary was born in 1902, in, born place, Kentucky. They were in Los Angeeles in 1940, and divorced in 1975.

John then married Barbara E. Huntoon (born Brown). Barbara was born in 1922 in Colorado.
John then married Marion Frances Herndon. Marion was born in 1911, in New York. John lived in 1910, in address, California. John passed away in 1988, at age 82 in California. He was buried in Nevada.

Ernest Eugene Ellistt Age 21 , born Place Eugene, Ore.. married Margaret Mae Brown on 1 Oct 1937 in Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon.

In 1940 Bakersfield, California, Ernest E. Elliott is 23, Margaret M. Elliott 21 Wife, born in Colorado.

MARGARET MAE BROWN (Apr 1937),
MARGARET MAE ELLIOTT (Nov 1942),
MARGARET MAE BAKER (Oct 1947),
MARGARET GARNER (Dec 1951),
MARGARET MAE MELLO (Feb 1966) .

Margaret Mae Brown Mello , born 11 Sep 1918 Hugo, Lincoln County, Colorado, , died 10 Nov 2002 Brookings, Curry County, Oregon, , buried Cremated. Specifically: Family Memorial FindAGrave # 222176476.

Herman Frank Mello , born 9 May 1919 Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, , died 8 Jan 1986 Crescent City, Del Norte County, California, , buried Cremated. Specifically: Family Memorial FindAGrave # 222176384.


NOT LIKELY

Either a different Thomas Bradley, or the Delta one was just spinning a tale..
February 1923 "Among the earliest of young fellows who found their way to the Western Slope was Thomas Bradley, who hailed from Northern Alabama at the age of 19 years, reaching Gunnison County, and whlch embraced what is now Gunnison, Montrose and Delta Counties, and taking a job as teamster, or to use the driver's vernacular 'mule skinner.' Mr. Bradley reached this section before the Indians had been escorted to the Ute Reservation by Gen. McKenzie.
Gunnison was a city of tents and there was a large number of cavalry and infantry on the ground, about 1000 cavalrymen and the same number of infantrymen.
We obtained a few facts from Mr. Bradley under duress. He said it was sort of a holiday to him and any place his hat was off, was home sweet home to him. However, he did have a few interesting experiences. On one occasion a mule train was driven to what is now the city of Grand Junction, although there was no city there. The party did not cross the river, as the water was very high. Mr. Bradley relates that what interested him most about the trip was that several times the mule train came to hills which were so steep that they could not climb. They would be unhitched and taken around a circuitous route while several hundred soldiers pulled the wagons to the top of the hill. They also made one trip to Grand Mesa, starting across Garnet Mesa and coming out near where the State Bridge is at present. The river was forded as there were no bridges. He said there was a large troop of Cavalry in front and more in the rear, and on each side of every team was a trooper armed to the teeth. The party camped there for a time and returned. Mr. Bradley was not informed what the object of either of these visits was, but he says he believes they expected an outbreak from the Indians. a Mr. Bradley related another experience when his party started to Alamosa with their mule teams. In September 1880 the freighting outfit started on a trip to Alamosa and camped on the Blue between Cimarron and Lake Fork. We will repeat Mr. Bradley’s story in practically his own words.
“There was a long grade there and I was back five or six teams and I noticed they all pulled out, so when it came my turn, I pulled out until the 25 teams were sidetracked and pretty soon we saw three ox wagons, six yokes each, and a trail wagon coming lumbering down the hill. They were driven by a young fellow named Jackson, and his uncle. “When the ox teams came along side of our teams they stopped and we were already stopped. They told us a story about the shooting of an Indian. He was the son of Shavano. It seems as near as they could tell, that these ox teams were just about out of provisions and were expecting to get some more grub down at Cimarron. They had camped on Blue Mesa, and as near as I remember there was a party of 10 or 12 Indians in the bunch. They rode into the Jackson camp and wanted something to eat. The teamsters had eaten up everything and they said they didn't have anything so the Indians began using some bad language. They said that young Jackson said: ‘Look out boys, they are going to shoot,’ and he jumped behind a wagon and cut loose at the Indians with a Winchester rifle and shot this Indian. Shavano's son. The Indians picked him up and rode off in a hurry. “There were several troops of the 4th Cavalry and we knew they were 10 or 12 miles coming the same way, so we advised him to go to the cavalry, it was only about one and one half miles to Cap Cline's place and give himself up to the cavalry and demand protection. There was an Indian Agent named Berry at the Agency, at what is now Colona, an think Berry was there at Cline's, as near as I remember, but when he gave himself up to Cline and Berry, there was an Indian there by the name of Meacham and they started with Jackson to go to Gunnison City and in some way between there and Gunnison, the Indians took Jackson away from them and what they did with him nobody knows, but he never was seen again, not even his body was found, but it was always supposed that the Indians tortured him to , died.
'The following spring. I drifted into Telluride and went to work in the mines and I followed the mining game up to a few years ago."

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