Elsworth Bradley, son of Henry Clay Bradley and Margaret Thomas Bradley, was born 25 September 1889 on his father's farm. He had a brother and two sisters as well as four siblings who did not survive infancy.
He married Emma Luvenia Brown, daughter of David Harrison Brown and Paulina Sweatt Brown, on 19 August 1920 in Old Linn Creek, Missouri, before it was covered by Lake of the Ozarks. Emma's pastor met them at the bridge to perform the ceremony. This bridge was later destroyed by cutting the cables and letting it fall into the Osage River after Bagnell Dam was built to create Lake of the Ozarks. Together they had six surviving children -- two girls and four boys.
Elsworth Bradley and his brother were both drafted into service in World War I. Elsworth was in the U.S. Army, 9th Engineer Train, and being a blacksmith by trade spent a lot of time in Ft. Bliss, Texas shoeing mules.
Elsworth had a blacksmith shop, first in Sleeper, Missouri, where his first child was born, then later in Stoutland where the family lived near the High Point Church and cemetery. He was an excellent tinkerer, fixer, and blacksmith and had a very brilliant, inventive mind. He could build or fix most anything and even had a set of Swiss tools he used to build gears from scratch when needed to repair men's watches. He was a friendly, very talkative man and an avid history buff.
Elsworth and Emma Bradley were both fiddlers as were many others in their families. Elsworth and his wife's brother, Fred, would often go to the rural Brown School to entertain the students there after the last recess on Friday, when the teachers would sometimes relax and let the students have this time for fun and entertainment. All looked forward to times when the two fiddlers visited to play their toe-tapping tunes.
He was converted at High Point Baptist Church at the age of 17, later uniting with the Friendship Christian Church.
In their older years, as health began to fail, Elsworth and Emma entered a nursing facility. He died 26 September 1973 and was buried at High Point Cemetery.
He married Emma Luvenia Brown, daughter of David Harrison Brown and Paulina Sweatt Brown, on 19 August 1920 in Old Linn Creek, Missouri, before it was covered by Lake of the Ozarks. Emma's pastor met them at the bridge to perform the ceremony. This bridge was later destroyed by cutting the cables and letting it fall into the Osage River after Bagnell Dam was built to create Lake of the Ozarks. Together they had six surviving children -- two girls and four boys.
Elsworth Bradley and his brother were both drafted into service in World War I. Elsworth was in the U.S. Army, 9th Engineer Train, and being a blacksmith by trade spent a lot of time in Ft. Bliss, Texas shoeing mules.
Elsworth had a blacksmith shop, first in Sleeper, Missouri, where his first child was born, then later in Stoutland where the family lived near the High Point Church and cemetery. He was an excellent tinkerer, fixer, and blacksmith and had a very brilliant, inventive mind. He could build or fix most anything and even had a set of Swiss tools he used to build gears from scratch when needed to repair men's watches. He was a friendly, very talkative man and an avid history buff.
Elsworth and Emma Bradley were both fiddlers as were many others in their families. Elsworth and his wife's brother, Fred, would often go to the rural Brown School to entertain the students there after the last recess on Friday, when the teachers would sometimes relax and let the students have this time for fun and entertainment. All looked forward to times when the two fiddlers visited to play their toe-tapping tunes.
He was converted at High Point Baptist Church at the age of 17, later uniting with the Friendship Christian Church.
In their older years, as health began to fail, Elsworth and Emma entered a nursing facility. He died 26 September 1973 and was buried at High Point Cemetery.
Elsworth Bradley, son of Henry Clay Bradley and Margaret Thomas Bradley, was born 25 September 1889 on his father's farm. He had a brother and two sisters as well as four siblings who did not survive infancy.
He married Emma Luvenia Brown, daughter of David Harrison Brown and Paulina Sweatt Brown, on 19 August 1920 in Old Linn Creek, Missouri, before it was covered by Lake of the Ozarks. Emma's pastor met them at the bridge to perform the ceremony. This bridge was later destroyed by cutting the cables and letting it fall into the Osage River after Bagnell Dam was built to create Lake of the Ozarks. Together they had six surviving children -- two girls and four boys.
Elsworth Bradley and his brother were both drafted into service in World War I. Elsworth was in the U.S. Army, 9th Engineer Train, and being a blacksmith by trade spent a lot of time in Ft. Bliss, Texas shoeing mules.
Elsworth had a blacksmith shop, first in Sleeper, Missouri, where his first child was born, then later in Stoutland where the family lived near the High Point Church and cemetery. He was an excellent tinkerer, fixer, and blacksmith and had a very brilliant, inventive mind. He could build or fix most anything and even had a set of Swiss tools he used to build gears from scratch when needed to repair men's watches. He was a friendly, very talkative man and an avid history buff.
Elsworth and Emma Bradley were both fiddlers as were many others in their families. Elsworth and his wife's brother, Fred, would often go to the rural Brown School to entertain the students there after the last recess on Friday, when the teachers would sometimes relax and let the students have this time for fun and entertainment. All looked forward to times when the two fiddlers visited to play their toe-tapping tunes.
He was converted at High Point Baptist Church at the age of 17, later uniting with the Friendship Christian Church.
In their older years, as health began to fail, Elsworth and Emma entered a nursing facility. He died 26 September 1973 and was buried at High Point Cemetery.
He married Emma Luvenia Brown, daughter of David Harrison Brown and Paulina Sweatt Brown, on 19 August 1920 in Old Linn Creek, Missouri, before it was covered by Lake of the Ozarks. Emma's pastor met them at the bridge to perform the ceremony. This bridge was later destroyed by cutting the cables and letting it fall into the Osage River after Bagnell Dam was built to create Lake of the Ozarks. Together they had six surviving children -- two girls and four boys.
Elsworth Bradley and his brother were both drafted into service in World War I. Elsworth was in the U.S. Army, 9th Engineer Train, and being a blacksmith by trade spent a lot of time in Ft. Bliss, Texas shoeing mules.
Elsworth had a blacksmith shop, first in Sleeper, Missouri, where his first child was born, then later in Stoutland where the family lived near the High Point Church and cemetery. He was an excellent tinkerer, fixer, and blacksmith and had a very brilliant, inventive mind. He could build or fix most anything and even had a set of Swiss tools he used to build gears from scratch when needed to repair men's watches. He was a friendly, very talkative man and an avid history buff.
Elsworth and Emma Bradley were both fiddlers as were many others in their families. Elsworth and his wife's brother, Fred, would often go to the rural Brown School to entertain the students there after the last recess on Friday, when the teachers would sometimes relax and let the students have this time for fun and entertainment. All looked forward to times when the two fiddlers visited to play their toe-tapping tunes.
He was converted at High Point Baptist Church at the age of 17, later uniting with the Friendship Christian Church.
In their older years, as health began to fail, Elsworth and Emma entered a nursing facility. He died 26 September 1973 and was buried at High Point Cemetery.
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