Pleasant Sprague “P. S.” Bradford

Birth: 2 Feb 1843
Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
Death: 6 Nov 1906 (aged 63)
Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah, USA
Burial: Spanish Fork City Cemetery

Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 40.1029966, Longitude: -111.6485537
Plot: 01.35 .24
Memorial ID: 11024045 View Source

December 1906 - Passage. Tuesday evening, Nov. 6, 1906, Brother Pleasant Sprague Bradford, one of the noble pioneers of Utah and one of the enterprising citizens of Spanish Fork passed peacefully into the great beyond.

Brother Bradford was the son of Hial Bradford and Abigal Sprague, early members of the Church, who aided in making Nauvoo the great city of the saints. His father dying in Nauvoo, Sister Bradford with her family of small children joined that band of chosen people called of God to build His temples in the tops of the mountains. She was a member of President John Taylor's company that enter Salt Lake valley in 1847. Her son, Pleasant, was then a boy of but 4 years of age. When a young man, Brother Bradford being a true saint, and ever willing to aid in the cause of truth, volunteered to return to the Missouri and aid the unfortunate in reaching their chosen land.

When the Indians were hostile and seemed determined to destroy the settlements of the saints, Pleasant Bradford was one of the first to shoulder his gun and go to the defense of his home and that of his neighbor. He helped to survey the first railroad route to Utah. He took an active part in the development of our canyon roads, our canals and was among the first to establish sawmills in our canyons. So practical was he, that he was one of those called to aid in the settlement of Arizona. He was also called to the Muddy, but was released and assigned to labor in the land of Dixie.

Brother Bradford was a true Latter-day Saint during his entire life. He loved the truth and ever tried to conform his life to the teachings of his great Master. In his death Spanish Fork has lost one of her leading citizens, and the Church one of her stalwart and faithful followers. Heber C. Jex, Correspondent. From the Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), Wed., Dec. 5, 1906, Page 5.