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Descendants of Hiram Walters

Generation No. 2

2. BRADFORD BRELL² WALTERS (HIRAM¹) was born October 05, 1808 in Tennessee, and died March 03, 1875 in Ceredo, West Virginia. He married (1) PASTY JOINS March 09, 1828 in Perry Co., KY. He married (2) MARY STANLEY Abt. 1832. He married (3) MARGARET COLLINS October 22, 1837 in Perry Co., Ky, daughter of THOMAS COLLINS and HANNAH WILLIAMS.

Notes for BRADFORD BRELL WALTERS:
       Bradford was raised by an Old Baptist Preacher. Bradford wanted a fiddle but the Old Baptist Minister would not let Bradford have one, so Bradford made himself a fiddle, the bow and all. He had learned to play it and would hide it in the old Still House in one of the empty mash barrels.
       One day the Old Minister decided to make some whiskey and went to the Still House taking Bradford with him. They had a spring upon the hill that feed the Still House and a flume running down the hill going to the Still House and The Old Minister sent Bradford up the hill to clean out the leaves in the flume and while Bradford was cleaning out the leaves the Old Minister was checking things out in the Still House when he found the fiddle that Bradford had made and was going to give Bradford a whipping. When Bradford come back the man asked Bradford if he could play it and he said he could, so he ask him to play a tune on it and he did, so the man told Bradford that he would get him a fiddle the next time he went to town and the man did.
       Down some distance from where Brad lived in Hazard there was a tavern where men would meet and drink and fight, they would strip down to the waist and grease themselves with hog lard, they would drink until one man would jump up and say he was the meanest man in Kentucky and that would cause a fight, with grease on them they could not grab a hold of one another. Thomas was one of the giant Walters and James one of the little ones. Tom would go down there to the bar or saloon, drink and fight. Bradford went down to the Tavern to get Tom one time. But Tom didn't know who it was and picked up Bradford by the hair of his head and turned him up and looked at him and said "it's a good thing your Paw and let him down. Brad went home and told Margaret that Tom wouldn't come home with him, so she cut a switch and went down there and soon she came back with Tom.
       The people would go some distance away, how far is unknown to me. But they would go to a creek or river and get salt from the banks and put it in a leather sack and throw it over their shoulder, they couldn't put it next to the horse because it would take the hair and hide off when the horse would seat, because it was curing salt.
       When a man and woman wanted to get married back in the times of Bradford, they had to have certain things, the man had to have a good set of buckskins, one rifle, a good hunting dog. The woman had to have two calico dresses. One side of the family would give them a cow and the woods was full of hogs and their families would get together and have a house raising on some land and that is what it took to get married in those days.
       Bradford had two sons that was serving in the Confederate States of America's Army and he was a Southern Sympathizer who lived in Kentucky at the time when Kentucky was going Pro Union. Bradford and his family left Hazard, Kentucky after the Home Guards burnt his Still House one night, then his barn another night, and finally his blacksmith shop. He figured that his house an family would be next. So he went first to Salyersville then to Paintsville. While traveling from Salyersville to Paintsville a troop of Union Soldiers took the oldest girl named Josephine and she was gone for a couple of weeks before they brought her back with a letter of apology to the family from the Commanding Officer.
       They then went down the Levisia River (what kind of boat is not known) landing at a place called "Public Landing" in Cattletburg, Kentucky, it was named because of the deep water there. There was a little house upon a hill from "Public Land" were the family stayed. There was a large company of Union Soldiers there so Bradford and his family went over to Ceredo, West Virginia. Next to the river was a Match Box Factory that was empty and this is where they made their home.
       One day a big popular log that had been hewed out square come down the river next to where Bradford lived in the Old Match Box Factory, Bradford went out in the river and got the log. He tied it up on the bank. The squared log had no markings on it so it belonged to Bradford. Also Bradford had a good squirrel dog and people would come by to borrow Bradford's dog to go hunting with and he would loan it out to most anyone that would ask. One day a Scotch man come down to the river and wanted to buy the square log, Bradford thought he said he wanted to borrow the squirrel dog, which some one else had already borrowed that day to go hunting. So, Bradford said it was gone right now and it made the Scotch man mad because he could see the log was on the river bank next to him, the Scotch man called Bradford a Confederate S.O.B. and Bradford had an ax on his shoulder, he threw the ax at the Scotch man hitting him along the right cheek and taking the right ear off and the ax stuck in big popular tree behind him, So you see Bradford had a temper.

Census Records:Individual: Walters, B. B. County/State: Perry Co., KY. Location: Hazard P. O. Page #: 731. Year: 1860.
Individual: Walters, Bradford. County/State: Wayne Co., WV. Location: Ceredo Twp. Page #: 039. Year: 1870.

Marriage Notes for BRADFORD WALTERS and PASTY JOINS:
Perry Co., Ky. Book 1 Page 19: Bradford Walters married 9 Mar. 1828 to a Patsy Joins (Joey) (Name given on orginal) Married by a Wm. Stamper.

Notes for MARY STANLEY:
Stanley is an English place name derived from the Old English elements stan = stone + leah = wood, clearing, and described the man who lived at the stony clearing in the woods, or a similar known geographic location.

Marriage Notes for BRADFORD WALTERS and MARGARET COLLINS:
Book 1 Page 44: Brel Bradford Walters married 22 Nov. 1837 to a Margaret Collins, by a Collins as minister.

       Children of BRADFORD WALTERS and MARY STANLEY are:

MATILDA³ WALTERS, b. June 03, 1833.

ii.

HIRAM G. WALTERS, b. February 01, 1835, Kentucky; d. May 28, 1917, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

Children of BRADFORD WALTERS and MARGARET COLLINS are:

iii.

JULIE³ WALTERS, b. June 07, 1838.

iv.

THOMAS C. WALTERS, b. July 06, 1838, Virginia; d. 1864, Fort Monroe, Virginia. (Old Point Comfort).

JAMES P. WALTERS, b. January 15, 1840, Kentucky; d. 1864, Ft. Monroe, Va. (Old Point Comfort).

vi.

JOSEPHINE WALTERS, b. October 18, 1842, Kentucky; d. September 30, 1923.

vii.

NANCY A. 'NAN' WALTERS, b. August 01, 1845, Kentucky; d. Wayne Co., WVa.?.

viii.

POLLY ANN WALTERS, b. July 11, 1848, Kentucky; d. March 12, 1921, Wayne Co., WVa.? Buried in Browns hill Cem. Ceredo, Wayne Co., W. Va..

ix.

SANFORD REED WALTERS, b. October 15, 1851, Kentucky; d. May 07, 1940, Ceredo, Wayne Co., W.Va..

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