An unconfirmed father of Vinson Bradley is possibly Nathaniel "Nathan" Bradley. He was born 16 March 1813 in Tennessee. He died 20 May 1897. Buried Hobdy Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN. Nathaniel married Alley Boren on 11 Mar 1835 in Sumner County, Tennessee. Alley (daughter of John Boren and Sarah Bush) was born 3 November 1812 in Tennessee. She died 15 November 1895. Buried Hobdy Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN. In the Census Nathaniel is listed as a Shoemaker.

Possible children of Nathaniel and Alley (according to the 1850, 1860 & 1860 Sumner Co. TN Census.) are:

1. Elizabeth J. "Eliza" Bradley born 30 December 1835 in TN. Died 8 June 1893. Married E. W. Alderson. Buried at Hobdy Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN.

2. Vinson Bradley born 11 April 1836 in TN. For more information see below.

3. Westly Bradley born abt. 1838 - 1839 in TN.

4. Mary Bradley born abt. 1841 in TN. Died before 1860.

5. Nancy Bradley born 11 January 1842 in TN. Died 8 May 1891. Married Andrew Cope. Nancy is buried at Hobdy Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN. According to the 1880 Census they had a child Callie Cope born 1874 in IL.

6. Margaret Bradley born abt. 1845 in TN

7. James Bradley born abt. 1846 - 1848 in TN. Possible marriage to a Louisa _?. Louisa was born abt. 1856.

8. John W. Bradley born abt. 1850 in TN.

9. Sarah E. Bradley born abt. 1851-1854 in TN.

Vinson Bradley was born 11 April 1837 in Tennessee. Vinson died 7 December 1908. He is buried at Hobdy Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN. Vinson 1st married Lucretia Clendenning (daughter of William Clendenning and Mary Perdue) on 9 May 1860 in Sumner Co. TN. He married 2nd in 1864 to Nannie Perkins. Nannie was born 11 September 1842. Nannie died 5 January 1912. She is buried Hobdy Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN. Vinson and his family are listed in the 1880 Grayson Co. TX Census.

Known children are:

1. Sarah "Sallie" Bradley was born 9 February 1865. Died 29 June 1890. Buried Hobdy Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN.

2. Dora Bradley was born 24 December 1870. Died 20 April 1945. Buried in Perdue Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN. Dora married James Bouygard "Bouy" Perdue. James was born 31 March 1860. He died 31 January 1946. Buried Perdue Cemetery, Sumner Co., TN.

3. James H. "Bud" Bradley was born 29 August 1874, died 25 November 1907. Buried Hobdy Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN. James had children by Lillie Hammond. For more information see below.

4. William "Willlie" Bradley was born 12 July 1877, died 20 January 1881. Buried Hobdy Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN

James H. "Bud" Bradley was shot and killed about 1906 are 1907 in Sumner County TN. He had two children by Lillie M. Hammond. Lillie Milton Hammond was born 9 November 1884 in Dallas, Texas and died 3 Janaruy 1969 in Lubbock, Texas. She is the daughter of Sarah Angeline Douglass. Click here to view a photo of James "Bud" Bradley & Lillie Hammond.

Sarah Angeline Douglass was born 9 January 1858 and died 24 February 1942. Sarah was not married when she had her first child Lillie Hammond. Sarah was living in Dallas Texas with her stepmother working at a rooming house. It is unclear where her father, Harmon Douglass was at that time.
My aunts writes: "Sallie... met a traveling saleman who promised marriage and Lillie was born. Later Sallie did marry a Mr. Rife."

Sarah A. Douglass had another child, Roy Harmon Rife. She never married the father, George W. Rife.

Family history says that George was married many times.
My aunts writes: "Mr. Rife who had seven wives in his lifetime."
George Rife and Sarah A. Douglass had one child: Roy Harmon "R. H." Rife. Roy was born in 1887 in Sugar Grove, TN.

Sarah A. Douglass married on 27 November 1889 to William Hiram Brown. William Hiram Brown was born 29 August 1829 and died 3 July 1905. He is buried at Brackentown Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN. They had four children: (1) Lacania Raymond b. 20 Aug 1892, d. 21 Apr 1933. (2) Velma Rheid b. 19 Dec 1895, d. 18 Apr. 1977. (3) Lesbia b. 3 Sep 1898, d. 16 Apr 1987. (4) Eugene Paul b. 6 May 1902. Click here to view a photo of William Hiram Brown.

Lillie Hammond (daughter of Sarah Douglass) received a teaching certificate from Howard Female College in Gallatin TN. While teaching at the school she was a boarder at the Bradley home. Nannie (James "Bud's" Bradley's mother) "talked her into marrying Bud." However, family rumor is the Bud was already married. Lillie did not know this. They did have a ceremony in 1904.
My aunt writes: "she boarded with Bud Bradley's mother and under their influence and lies she married (went thru a ceremony) later finding out he was already married."
Eventually she found out about the other wife, after her first child was born. When she found out, and pregnant with her 2nd child, Lillie went to live with her mother.

NOTE: Family history has Bud married to Tura Brown. Tura Lee Brown was born 21 October 1877. Daughter of George Washington Brown (the brother of Hiram Brown) and Susan Ann Mitchell. She died on 29 January 1903, buried at Mitchell Cemetery, Sumner Co. TN. Tura might have married James "Bud" Brown in 1895. The Sumner Co. Marriage Index has the following:
Bradley, James W. to Lura Brown 11/4/1895.
Is Lura really Tura? Is James W. really James H.?
The Sumner County, Tennessee: Index to the Loose Records 1786 -1930 lists the following under the Lawsuit section:
Bradley, Tura L. vs. Bradley, James H. year 1896 (#1788)

My aunt writes: "He (Bud) kept coming to our house lying, drinking with a gun there was bound to be trouble."
One night James "Bud" arrived demanding to see his daughter Deema. Sallie and Roy Harmon would not let him in. James "Bud" shot at Sarah and hit her in the side and her arm. Roy H. Rife went out the back door and shot and killed James "Bud" Bradley. Roy Harmon Rife was arrested. He was not convicted. However, they were told to leave Tennessee. The family moved to Texas, around the Fort Worth area in about 1908 or a little later.

Harmon Rife who was charged with having shot Bud Bradley during an altercation in the 12th district last week came to town Saturday and was arrested by sheriff Patton. At a preliminary trail yesterday before Esquires C. W. Hodges and W. Brown at Troutt Brother's store he was Acquitted. (Note: This paper on the acquitted was dated Thursday December 5 1907)

James "Bud" and Lillie had two children:

1. Deema Boyd Bradley was born May 30, 1906 in Sumner Co. TN. Deema married Robert and they had two girls, Billie Jo and Catherine.

2. Joe F. Bradley was born April 8, 1907 in Sumner Co. TN. Joe Bradley owned a feedstore in Weatherford, Texas. He married Ruth and had one child a daughter. Joe was hit and killed by a train

In 1918, Lillie Hammond married Robert "Bob" Castle in Brownsfield, Texas.