Mary Elvira 'Polly" Bradley

Mary Elvira "Polly" Trentham, daughter of William Thomas Trentham and Easter "Ogle" Trentham. Mary married Andrew Jackson Bradley he was the son of Isaac Bradley and Sarah "Coxey" Bradley.

Mary Elvira Trentham and Andrew Jackson Bradley were married by Rev Richard Evans, in Oct 1847 in Sevier County, Tennessee. Andrew and Mary had the following Children;

1. William B. Bradley 2. Andrew Jackson Bradley Jr 3. Mary Polly Bradley 4. Martha Bradley 5. James Madison "Matt" Bradley 6. Woodley Bradley 7. Sarah C. Bradley 8. Bradley 9. Lucinda C. Bradley 10. Robert Lee Bradley 11. Nancy Elmina "Callie" Bradley 12. Columbus Bradley 13. Isaac Newton Bradley

Listed in the 1850 through 1880 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.

Mary Elvira Trentham Bradley, Widow of Andrew Jackson, filed for a pension on Andrew Jackson Bradley's Indian Wars military service. She stated that they lived 20 years at Ocona Lufty, North Carlolina, and 25 years in Sevier County, Tennessee. A pension was granted at the rate of eight dollars per month.

Reference:

"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 16, 21, 77.

"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 102, 105, 139, 150.

"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 162.

"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 50.

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