BRADFORD, JAMES M., was born Sept. 28, 1795, in Culpepper county, Va. His parents moved to Scott county, Ky., when he was twelve years old. His commencement in business was trading down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He was married July 4, 1820, at Port Gibson, Miss., to Ann E. Barnes, who was born Sept. 10, 1802, in North Carolina, and in 1807 was taken by her parents to Mississippi, where they settled. She was educated at Port Gibson in a French Catholic convent. After a residence of three years there, they moved to Scott county, Ky., where they remained one year, and moved to Franklin county, near Frankfort, and within three miles of Dick Johnson's Indian school. They had four children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1834, in what is now Gardner township. Of their four children--

THOMAS A., born August 2, 1821, at Port Gibson, Miss., brought by his parents to Sangamon county, was educated at McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., graduated at that institution, and was married in Lebanon to Jane Baker. He went to Missouri and there enlisted in Co. B., Col. Doniphan's regiment, and marched overland to Mexico, in 1846. Col. Doniphan had orders, on arriving at Chihuahua, to report to Gen. Wool. He was unable to learn the whereabouts of Gen. Wool, and Thomas A. Bradford was one of six men who volunteered to carry through the dispatches, which they delivered to Gen. Wool at Saltillo, having gone the distance of three hundred miles, through an enemy's country, without the loss of a man. He was, with John Calhoun, engaged in the survey of public lands for the U. S. Government, and died Dec. 25, 1856, near Wyandotte, Kan., his wife and only child having died before.

ELIZABETH E., born July 31, 1823, in Scott county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, May 24, 1840, to David Madison. He died two years later, leaving a son, JAMES B., who died at fourteen years of age. Mrs. Madison resides near Bradfordton, Sangamon county.

SUSAN, born May 25, 1825, in Kentucky, married June 11, 1858, in Sangamon county, to William G. Hawkins, who was born Sept. 14, 1827, in Boone county, Ky., but resided in St. Louis at the time of his marriage. They live in Sangamon county.

MARTHA A., born May 26, 1832, in Kentucky, died while attending school in Springfield, August, 1848. Mrs. Ann E. Bradford died in Sangamon county, July 8, 1835, and James M. Bradford was married, Dec. 27, 1836, to Arsenath Talbott. They had six children in Sangamon county, one of whom died in infancy. Of the other five children--

WILLIAM T., born June 8, 1838, was married Oct. 1, 1861, to Grizella A. Parkinson. They had six children. The eldest, JAMES, and the fifth one, SUE H., died under three years. ELIZABETH A., THOMAS P., LAURA M. and WILLIAM A., reside with their parents, in Gardner township.

HARRIET E., born Feb. 3, 1841, in Sangamon county, married Hiram E. Gardner. See his name.

ISABELLA M. resides with her mother in Springfield.

SARAH J., born Nov. 3, 1845, married William H. Parkinson. See his name.

EDWARD T., born May 19, 1850, was married, Feb. 17, 1870, to Carrie M. VanPatten. They have one child, EDWARD M., and reside at Bradfordton. James M. Bradford died March 3, 1852, and his widow resided on the farm which has become Bradfordton, on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, until April, 1874, when she moved to Springfield, and lives on north fifth street. James M. Bradford was a soldier in the war of 1812, from Scott county, Ky. He served one term in the General Assembly of Illinois, elected in the fall of 1840.