Collins D. Bradley

Birth Date

1802

Death Date

1876

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit judge, and commonwealth's attorney. Virginia native. Married to Virginia Waddill Bradley in Trigg County, Kentucky, on December 25, 1832. Married to Mary J. Fisher Jenkins Bradley in Trigg County on May 21, 1850. Father of William G. Bradley, Daniel H. Bradley, and Anna Bradley. Stepfather of Frances A. Jenkins and Margaret A. Jenkins. Attorney in Trigg County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1850. County attorney for Trigg County in 1851. Circuit judge for the Second Judicial District of Kentucky in 1854. Attorney in Trigg County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Trigg County in 1860. Commonwealth's attorney pro tempore for the Second Judicial District of Kentucky in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 291A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States(1850). Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 189.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 391B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton Precinct, p. 484B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trigg County Marriages, Film 000321335.
"Trigg County," The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), May 22, 1851, p. 3.
"Judicial Elections," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), August 31, 1854, p. 3.
William Henry Perrin, Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical (Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884), 41-43.
Trigg County Historical and Preservation Society, Trigg County History, vol. 1 (Cadiz, KY: Trigg County Historical and Preservation Society, 1986), 57.
"Collins Dabney Bradley (1802-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial 196176957, accessed January 30, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196176957.
KYR-0001-020-0001.

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