Sarah "Sallie" Hinkle, wife of Asa Bradley.
Asa Bradley, Jr. & Sarah Hinkles had:
Elizabeth who m. Jedidiah Garrison
Martha Bradley m. Hines Berry Whitfield (bro to Drucilla & Asbury)
Sara m. Daniel Caudell
Mary m. Martin Segars
Marguarette m. David Caudell
Harriett m. James Caudell
Priscilla m. Thomas Allen Ayers
George m. Sarah Ausburn
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page 95 Leatherwood Happenings
BALL OF YARN, BY LUCY EMMA ADDISON ANDERSON, AS GIVEN TO CORA LEDBETTER
One day Sara Hinkle Bradley (my grandmother) went over the other side of the mountain to spend the day with her daughter Mary (Polly) Segars. Polly had been sick, and Sarah wanted to carry her some food. When she was ready to return home in the afternoon one of the daughters, Martha Etta accompanied her.
Sara had her knitting and was knitting as she walked along. Suddenly to her dismay, she discovered that she had dropped her yarn. Sara told her granddaughter Martha to run back down the mountain trail and get her thread. Martha walked and walked. To her it seemed a mile before she found the yarn. Now she wound the thread as she walked. Finally she reached her grandmother and found her still knitting. Must have been strong thread to endure such strain.
NOTE: SARA HINKLE BRADLEY IS THE GRANDMOTHER OF LUCY ADDISON ANDERSON, NOT CORA LEDBETTER. LUCY WROTE THE TALES AROUND 1971 AND GAVE COPIES, HANDWRITTEN, TO PEOPLE SUCH AS MY MOTHER DOROTHY LATRANQUIL AYERS MARTIN, THE DAUGHTER OF HER FIRST COUSIN PLUMER AYERS. SOMEHOW IN THE EDITORIAL PROCESS, REFERENCE TO THE AUTHOR OF THE STORY, NAMELY LUCY, WAS OMITTED, AND THE STORIES WERE ATTRIBUTED TO MRS. LEDBETTER, THE PERSON COMPILING AND PUBLISHING THE MOUNTAIN TALES.
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Asa and Arthur Bradley, born 4th of June, 1785 were one of twelve sets of twins to parents George Asa and Mary Ann Hamilton Bradley. It is told when Asa was four years of age while living in the state of Virginia his mother was doing the family wash and Asa was playing nearby and spied a hollow tree full of dry leaves. He took a burning chunk of wood from around the iron washpot. Trying to stick the wood into the tree he realized there was too many leaves. He stuck his hand in to remove some leaves and was biten by a rattlesnake on his hand. Asa was sick for weeks and suffered from this for a year. Later in life doctors blamed the snakebite for his rheumatism that crippled him around age fourty.
When Asa was 8 years old his family moved to South Carolina and settled on the Tugalo River. It was there he meet and married a Dutch[Deutsch/German] girl named Sarah Sallie Hinkle. They lived the first year of their marriage on the Tugalo River. Asa and Sarah moved to Georgia were they took up government land, cleared it and built a two story log house. They raised eleven children here. Asa was a talented craftsman, woodworker and furniture builder. He put his talents to use and invented an iron chair, the first shocking machine for rheumatism and neuralgia patients.
Asa could afford slaves, but refused to own any. Even with his rheumatism he maintained his home, a garden, an orchid along with stocks of horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. Asa and Sarah lived in the two story log home until their deaths. Asa was laid to rest in the family cemetary, probably started at his death in 1846, located at Hooper's Bottoms in Banks County, Georgia. The family cemetary is the resting place for two of his grandchildren who died very young, three of his own children who died young and his beloved wife, Sarah. Sarah lived thirty-one years after Asa. Sarah had made a will and deeded the "old home place" to their daughter, Harriett Caudell. [This land was later sold to Allen A. Acree after Sarah's death. Some of Allen Acree/Drucilla Whitfield descendants intermarried with the Bradleys, Caudells and Ayers in the Tates Creek Baptist area, where Thomas Allen Ayers and Priscilla Bradley are buried next to William B. Acree and Mary R. Martin, all my gg grandparents.]
Asa Bradley, Jr. & Sarah Hinkles had:
Elizabeth who m. Jedidiah Garrison
Martha Bradley m. Hines Berry Whitfield (bro to Drucilla & Asbury)
Sara m. Daniel Caudell
Mary m. Martin Segars
Marguarette m. David Caudell
Harriett m. James Caudell
Priscilla m. Thomas Allen Ayers
George m. Sarah Ausburn
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page 95 Leatherwood Happenings
BALL OF YARN, BY LUCY EMMA ADDISON ANDERSON, AS GIVEN TO CORA LEDBETTER
One day Sara Hinkle Bradley (my grandmother) went over the other side of the mountain to spend the day with her daughter Mary (Polly) Segars. Polly had been sick, and Sarah wanted to carry her some food. When she was ready to return home in the afternoon one of the daughters, Martha Etta accompanied her.
Sara had her knitting and was knitting as she walked along. Suddenly to her dismay, she discovered that she had dropped her yarn. Sara told her granddaughter Martha to run back down the mountain trail and get her thread. Martha walked and walked. To her it seemed a mile before she found the yarn. Now she wound the thread as she walked. Finally she reached her grandmother and found her still knitting. Must have been strong thread to endure such strain.
NOTE: SARA HINKLE BRADLEY IS THE GRANDMOTHER OF LUCY ADDISON ANDERSON, NOT CORA LEDBETTER. LUCY WROTE THE TALES AROUND 1971 AND GAVE COPIES, HANDWRITTEN, TO PEOPLE SUCH AS MY MOTHER DOROTHY LATRANQUIL AYERS MARTIN, THE DAUGHTER OF HER FIRST COUSIN PLUMER AYERS. SOMEHOW IN THE EDITORIAL PROCESS, REFERENCE TO THE AUTHOR OF THE STORY, NAMELY LUCY, WAS OMITTED, AND THE STORIES WERE ATTRIBUTED TO MRS. LEDBETTER, THE PERSON COMPILING AND PUBLISHING THE MOUNTAIN TALES.
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Asa and Arthur Bradley, born 4th of June, 1785 were one of twelve sets of twins to parents George Asa and Mary Ann Hamilton Bradley. It is told when Asa was four years of age while living in the state of Virginia his mother was doing the family wash and Asa was playing nearby and spied a hollow tree full of dry leaves. He took a burning chunk of wood from around the iron washpot. Trying to stick the wood into the tree he realized there was too many leaves. He stuck his hand in to remove some leaves and was biten by a rattlesnake on his hand. Asa was sick for weeks and suffered from this for a year. Later in life doctors blamed the snakebite for his rheumatism that crippled him around age fourty.
When Asa was 8 years old his family moved to South Carolina and settled on the Tugalo River. It was there he meet and married a Dutch[Deutsch/German] girl named Sarah Sallie Hinkle. They lived the first year of their marriage on the Tugalo River. Asa and Sarah moved to Georgia were they took up government land, cleared it and built a two story log house. They raised eleven children here. Asa was a talented craftsman, woodworker and furniture builder. He put his talents to use and invented an iron chair, the first shocking machine for rheumatism and neuralgia patients.
Asa could afford slaves, but refused to own any. Even with his rheumatism he maintained his home, a garden, an orchid along with stocks of horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. Asa and Sarah lived in the two story log home until their deaths. Asa was laid to rest in the family cemetary, probably started at his death in 1846, located at Hooper's Bottoms in Banks County, Georgia. The family cemetary is the resting place for two of his grandchildren who died very young, three of his own children who died young and his beloved wife, Sarah. Sarah lived thirty-one years after Asa. Sarah had made a will and deeded the "old home place" to their daughter, Harriett Caudell. [This land was later sold to Allen A. Acree after Sarah's death. Some of Allen Acree/Drucilla Whitfield descendants intermarried with the Bradleys, Caudells and Ayers in the Tates Creek Baptist area, where Thomas Allen Ayers and Priscilla Bradley are buried next to William B. Acree and Mary R. Martin, all my gg grandparents.]
Sarah "Sallie" Hinkle, wife of Asa Bradley.
Asa Bradley, Jr. & Sarah Hinkles had:
Elizabeth who m. Jedidiah Garrison
Martha Bradley m. Hines Berry Whitfield (bro to Drucilla & Asbury)
Sara m. Daniel Caudell
Mary m. Martin Segars
Marguarette m. David Caudell
Harriett m. James Caudell
Priscilla m. Thomas Allen Ayers
George m. Sarah Ausburn
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page 95 Leatherwood Happenings
BALL OF YARN, BY LUCY EMMA ADDISON ANDERSON, AS GIVEN TO CORA LEDBETTER
One day Sara Hinkle Bradley (my grandmother) went over the other side of the mountain to spend the day with her daughter Mary (Polly) Segars. Polly had been sick, and Sarah wanted to carry her some food. When she was ready to return home in the afternoon one of the daughters, Martha Etta accompanied her.
Sara had her knitting and was knitting as she walked along. Suddenly to her dismay, she discovered that she had dropped her yarn. Sara told her granddaughter Martha to run back down the mountain trail and get her thread. Martha walked and walked. To her it seemed a mile before she found the yarn. Now she wound the thread as she walked. Finally she reached her grandmother and found her still knitting. Must have been strong thread to endure such strain.
NOTE: SARA HINKLE BRADLEY IS THE GRANDMOTHER OF LUCY ADDISON ANDERSON, NOT CORA LEDBETTER. LUCY WROTE THE TALES AROUND 1971 AND GAVE COPIES, HANDWRITTEN, TO PEOPLE SUCH AS MY MOTHER DOROTHY LATRANQUIL AYERS MARTIN, THE DAUGHTER OF HER FIRST COUSIN PLUMER AYERS. SOMEHOW IN THE EDITORIAL PROCESS, REFERENCE TO THE AUTHOR OF THE STORY, NAMELY LUCY, WAS OMITTED, AND THE STORIES WERE ATTRIBUTED TO MRS. LEDBETTER, THE PERSON COMPILING AND PUBLISHING THE MOUNTAIN TALES.
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Asa and Arthur Bradley, born 4th of June, 1785 were one of twelve sets of twins to parents George Asa and Mary Ann Hamilton Bradley. It is told when Asa was four years of age while living in the state of Virginia his mother was doing the family wash and Asa was playing nearby and spied a hollow tree full of dry leaves. He took a burning chunk of wood from around the iron washpot. Trying to stick the wood into the tree he realized there was too many leaves. He stuck his hand in to remove some leaves and was biten by a rattlesnake on his hand. Asa was sick for weeks and suffered from this for a year. Later in life doctors blamed the snakebite for his rheumatism that crippled him around age fourty.
When Asa was 8 years old his family moved to South Carolina and settled on the Tugalo River. It was there he meet and married a Dutch[Deutsch/German] girl named Sarah Sallie Hinkle. They lived the first year of their marriage on the Tugalo River. Asa and Sarah moved to Georgia were they took up government land, cleared it and built a two story log house. They raised eleven children here. Asa was a talented craftsman, woodworker and furniture builder. He put his talents to use and invented an iron chair, the first shocking machine for rheumatism and neuralgia patients.
Asa could afford slaves, but refused to own any. Even with his rheumatism he maintained his home, a garden, an orchid along with stocks of horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. Asa and Sarah lived in the two story log home until their deaths. Asa was laid to rest in the family cemetary, probably started at his death in 1846, located at Hooper's Bottoms in Banks County, Georgia. The family cemetary is the resting place for two of his grandchildren who died very young, three of his own children who died young and his beloved wife, Sarah. Sarah lived thirty-one years after Asa. Sarah had made a will and deeded the "old home place" to their daughter, Harriett Caudell. [This land was later sold to Allen A. Acree after Sarah's death. Some of Allen Acree/Drucilla Whitfield descendants intermarried with the Bradleys, Caudells and Ayers in the Tates Creek Baptist area, where Thomas Allen Ayers and Priscilla Bradley are buried next to William B. Acree and Mary R. Martin, all my gg grandparents.]
Asa Bradley, Jr. & Sarah Hinkles had:
Elizabeth who m. Jedidiah Garrison
Martha Bradley m. Hines Berry Whitfield (bro to Drucilla & Asbury)
Sara m. Daniel Caudell
Mary m. Martin Segars
Marguarette m. David Caudell
Harriett m. James Caudell
Priscilla m. Thomas Allen Ayers
George m. Sarah Ausburn
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page 95 Leatherwood Happenings
BALL OF YARN, BY LUCY EMMA ADDISON ANDERSON, AS GIVEN TO CORA LEDBETTER
One day Sara Hinkle Bradley (my grandmother) went over the other side of the mountain to spend the day with her daughter Mary (Polly) Segars. Polly had been sick, and Sarah wanted to carry her some food. When she was ready to return home in the afternoon one of the daughters, Martha Etta accompanied her.
Sara had her knitting and was knitting as she walked along. Suddenly to her dismay, she discovered that she had dropped her yarn. Sara told her granddaughter Martha to run back down the mountain trail and get her thread. Martha walked and walked. To her it seemed a mile before she found the yarn. Now she wound the thread as she walked. Finally she reached her grandmother and found her still knitting. Must have been strong thread to endure such strain.
NOTE: SARA HINKLE BRADLEY IS THE GRANDMOTHER OF LUCY ADDISON ANDERSON, NOT CORA LEDBETTER. LUCY WROTE THE TALES AROUND 1971 AND GAVE COPIES, HANDWRITTEN, TO PEOPLE SUCH AS MY MOTHER DOROTHY LATRANQUIL AYERS MARTIN, THE DAUGHTER OF HER FIRST COUSIN PLUMER AYERS. SOMEHOW IN THE EDITORIAL PROCESS, REFERENCE TO THE AUTHOR OF THE STORY, NAMELY LUCY, WAS OMITTED, AND THE STORIES WERE ATTRIBUTED TO MRS. LEDBETTER, THE PERSON COMPILING AND PUBLISHING THE MOUNTAIN TALES.
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Asa and Arthur Bradley, born 4th of June, 1785 were one of twelve sets of twins to parents George Asa and Mary Ann Hamilton Bradley. It is told when Asa was four years of age while living in the state of Virginia his mother was doing the family wash and Asa was playing nearby and spied a hollow tree full of dry leaves. He took a burning chunk of wood from around the iron washpot. Trying to stick the wood into the tree he realized there was too many leaves. He stuck his hand in to remove some leaves and was biten by a rattlesnake on his hand. Asa was sick for weeks and suffered from this for a year. Later in life doctors blamed the snakebite for his rheumatism that crippled him around age fourty.
When Asa was 8 years old his family moved to South Carolina and settled on the Tugalo River. It was there he meet and married a Dutch[Deutsch/German] girl named Sarah Sallie Hinkle. They lived the first year of their marriage on the Tugalo River. Asa and Sarah moved to Georgia were they took up government land, cleared it and built a two story log house. They raised eleven children here. Asa was a talented craftsman, woodworker and furniture builder. He put his talents to use and invented an iron chair, the first shocking machine for rheumatism and neuralgia patients.
Asa could afford slaves, but refused to own any. Even with his rheumatism he maintained his home, a garden, an orchid along with stocks of horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. Asa and Sarah lived in the two story log home until their deaths. Asa was laid to rest in the family cemetary, probably started at his death in 1846, located at Hooper's Bottoms in Banks County, Georgia. The family cemetary is the resting place for two of his grandchildren who died very young, three of his own children who died young and his beloved wife, Sarah. Sarah lived thirty-one years after Asa. Sarah had made a will and deeded the "old home place" to their daughter, Harriett Caudell. [This land was later sold to Allen A. Acree after Sarah's death. Some of Allen Acree/Drucilla Whitfield descendants intermarried with the Bradleys, Caudells and Ayers in the Tates Creek Baptist area, where Thomas Allen Ayers and Priscilla Bradley are buried next to William B. Acree and Mary R. Martin, all my gg grandparents.]
