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William Bradley (Hopkins County, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer)

b. 1800?

Hopkins County, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer. South Carolina native. Married to Catherine M. Bradley. Father of Amos K. Bradley, Edward L. Bradley, Elizabeth Bradley, Robert J. Bradley, Sarah Bradley, Minerva J. Bradley, Mahala Bradley, Julia O. Bradley, Kate Bradley, and William Bradley. Sheriff in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1831. Appointed as a commissioner to mark a road from Henderson County to Hopkins County by an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1841. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned forty-three enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 112A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 107-08.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 736-37.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 215B-16A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 180B.

Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: Jacob H. Holeman, 1831), 50.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: A. G. Hodges, 1841), 25.

Find A Grave, "William Bradley (1800-1876)," Memorial #108941710, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108941710 (accessed May 27, 2020).

Citation

Bradley, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212313 (November 12, 2026).

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