SEVENTH GENERATION

1802. Jesse Earl Bradford was born on 1 Nov 1887 in Ohio. He appeared on the census on 21 Jun 1900 in home of parent. He died on 7 Jun 1959. He was buried in New Hope Lutheran Cemetery, near Adamsville, Muskingum County, Ohio. ⁽²⁸⁷⁸⁾ He taught school for more than twenty years, and served about five years as Muskingum County's first Truant Officer. He was a musician, teaching music and singing in the schools of northeastern Muskingum County, Ohio. He was director of the Adamsville Mem's Civic Chorus, the Adamsville Community Band and Orchestra, and played with many country music groups in the area. In 1988 he was inducted posthumously into the Muskingum County Country Music Hall of Fame. In addition to directing and playing with many groups, he also palyed extra cornet or saxaphone with the Eagle's band, Zanesville, and with some of the orchestras at the Weller theater. Jesse and Mae followed Benjamin Davis, Jr. on a farm lay partly in Adams Township and partly in Salem. In 1946 they retired from the farm and moved to Trinway, Ohio.

He was married to Alta Mae Stewart (daughter of J. Wesley Stewart and Rachel Barrett) on 1 Sep 1914. Alta Mae Stewart was born on 7 Oct 1884. She died on 22 Mar 1968. She was buried in New Hope Lutheran Cemetery, near Adamsville, Muskingum County, Ohio.⁽²⁸⁷⁹⁾ Jesse Earl Bradford and Alta Mae Stewart had the following children:

+2828 i. Ione Bradford.
+2829 ii. Clell Stewart Bradford.
2830 iii. Carl Raymond Bradford was born on 4 Mar 1921 in Muskingum County, Ohio. ⁽²⁸⁸⁰⁾ He died on 7 May 1945 in Okinawa, Japan. He was killed in action on Okinawa near Japan during World War II. He was a PFC with the 306th Infantry Company A, 77th Division of the Army. He was killed while leading his company on a mission to secure the area near Shuri Castle. He have been previously wounded on Leyte in December, 1944, and spent many weeks in the field hospital. When he recovered he returned to his company and was injured again in April, 1945, when troops first landed on Okinawa. Men were needed so badly that he was treated for a few days then returned to duty. He was the last of his company of the original recruits that had been reactivated into the 77th Division at Camp Pickett, South Carolina in 1942. Carl was first buried in the 77th Division cemetery on Okinawa, but his body was removed to the National Cemetery in Punch Bowl Crater, Honolulu, Hawaii, about 1954. His name is etched in memorium on his parent's stone at the New Hope Lutheran cemetery. He never married.