DESCENDANT OF 4 MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS: Richard Warren, Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton and their daughter Mary (Allerton) Cushman
DESCENDANT OF WILLIAM "THE PIONEER OF BOSTON" BLACKSTONE
BROTHER-IN-LAW OF CIVIL WAR MEDAL-OF-HONOR-WINNER CAPT. AXEL HAYFORD REED
MINNESOTA PIONEER
BUILT ONE OF THE FIRST LOG CABINS IN GLENCOE, MN
HIS FAMILY ESCAPED THE SIOUX UPRISING OF 1862
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A BIOGRAPHY OF BRADBURY RICHARDSON, JR., by Laurence Overmire (great great nephew), genealogist and family historian, Aug. 2008:
Bradbury Richardson, Jr., was born in Gloucester, Maine, on Dec. 3, 1832 (some say 1830), the sixth of eight children of Bradbury and Jane (Rideout) Richardson.
On Nov. 11, 1855, at the age of 25, he married 29-year-old Huldah Bisbee Reed, the daughter of Sampson and Huldah (Bisbee) Reed, in Rochester, New York. Huldah's twin sister Lydia Phelps Reed had married Bradbury's brother Joseph in 1852.
Bradbury Jr. was a farmer. He and Huldah moved to Glencoe, Minnesota, in 1857, built one of the first log cabins there and endured the hardships of pioneer life. They had three children: Clara Arnold, and twins Jennie Bisbee and Nettie Elizabeth.
During the Sioux uprising in August of 1862, Huldah was forced to flee their home in Glencoe with their three young children, the twins were only a couple months old, through what was called "The Big Woods" to the town of Carver, thirty miles away. They did not return until Little Crow's band of Santee Sioux had been driven away by soldiers.
Bradbury's whereabouts during this time are unknown, he may have been with Huldah, but it seems more likely he was with the men of the town somewhere dealing with the situation. We do know his brother Eliphalet was killed. The people of Glencoe were terrified and needed to know what was going on. Bradbury, it was reported, volunteered to ride out to Fort Ridgely and assess the situation, but Eliphalet said, "No, my brother. You have a wife and children to mourn your death, but I have none to mourn for me, if anything should happen to me while over there." Eliphalet seized the reins, sprang into the saddle, waved to the crowd and off he went. The danger was far greater than he knew. Near Fort Ridgely, the Indians quickly spotted him and gave chase. Eliphalet was cornered in a grove of trees by a river and killed on Aug. 22. He was robbed of $200 in gold and a watch. His tombstone reads, "Killed by the Indians at Fort Ridgely." His heroism probably saved the life of his brother Bradbury.
No doubt wanting to remove themselves from the dangers in Minnesota, Bradbury and his family moved back home to Maine. They were in Milton Plantation, Oxford County, on April 27, 1865, when Huldah's brother Civil War hero Axel Reed came to visit them. They were still in Milton at the time of the 1870 census, but moved back to Minnesota sometime after that.
Bradbury died in Glencoe on Aug. 16, 1907, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery there.
DESCENDANT OF WILLIAM "THE PIONEER OF BOSTON" BLACKSTONE
BROTHER-IN-LAW OF CIVIL WAR MEDAL-OF-HONOR-WINNER CAPT. AXEL HAYFORD REED
MINNESOTA PIONEER
BUILT ONE OF THE FIRST LOG CABINS IN GLENCOE, MN
HIS FAMILY ESCAPED THE SIOUX UPRISING OF 1862
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A BIOGRAPHY OF BRADBURY RICHARDSON, JR., by Laurence Overmire (great great nephew), genealogist and family historian, Aug. 2008:
Bradbury Richardson, Jr., was born in Gloucester, Maine, on Dec. 3, 1832 (some say 1830), the sixth of eight children of Bradbury and Jane (Rideout) Richardson.
On Nov. 11, 1855, at the age of 25, he married 29-year-old Huldah Bisbee Reed, the daughter of Sampson and Huldah (Bisbee) Reed, in Rochester, New York. Huldah's twin sister Lydia Phelps Reed had married Bradbury's brother Joseph in 1852.
Bradbury Jr. was a farmer. He and Huldah moved to Glencoe, Minnesota, in 1857, built one of the first log cabins there and endured the hardships of pioneer life. They had three children: Clara Arnold, and twins Jennie Bisbee and Nettie Elizabeth.
During the Sioux uprising in August of 1862, Huldah was forced to flee their home in Glencoe with their three young children, the twins were only a couple months old, through what was called "The Big Woods" to the town of Carver, thirty miles away. They did not return until Little Crow's band of Santee Sioux had been driven away by soldiers.
Bradbury's whereabouts during this time are unknown, he may have been with Huldah, but it seems more likely he was with the men of the town somewhere dealing with the situation. We do know his brother Eliphalet was killed. The people of Glencoe were terrified and needed to know what was going on. Bradbury, it was reported, volunteered to ride out to Fort Ridgely and assess the situation, but Eliphalet said, "No, my brother. You have a wife and children to mourn your death, but I have none to mourn for me, if anything should happen to me while over there." Eliphalet seized the reins, sprang into the saddle, waved to the crowd and off he went. The danger was far greater than he knew. Near Fort Ridgely, the Indians quickly spotted him and gave chase. Eliphalet was cornered in a grove of trees by a river and killed on Aug. 22. He was robbed of $200 in gold and a watch. His tombstone reads, "Killed by the Indians at Fort Ridgely." His heroism probably saved the life of his brother Bradbury.
No doubt wanting to remove themselves from the dangers in Minnesota, Bradbury and his family moved back home to Maine. They were in Milton Plantation, Oxford County, on April 27, 1865, when Huldah's brother Civil War hero Axel Reed came to visit them. They were still in Milton at the time of the 1870 census, but moved back to Minnesota sometime after that.
Bradbury died in Glencoe on Aug. 16, 1907, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery there.
DESCENDANT OF 4 MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS: Richard Warren, Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton and their daughter Mary (Allerton) Cushman
DESCENDANT OF WILLIAM "THE PIONEER OF BOSTON" BLACKSTONE
BROTHER-IN-LAW OF CIVIL WAR MEDAL-OF-HONOR-WINNER CAPT. AXEL HAYFORD REED
MINNESOTA PIONEER
BUILT ONE OF THE FIRST LOG CABINS IN GLENCOE, MN
HIS FAMILY ESCAPED THE SIOUX UPRISING OF 1862
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A BIOGRAPHY OF BRADBURY RICHARDSON, JR., by Laurence Overmire (great great nephew), genealogist and family historian, Aug. 2008:
Bradbury Richardson, Jr., was born in Gloucester, Maine, on Dec. 3, 1832 (some say 1830), the sixth of eight children of Bradbury and Jane (Rideout) Richardson.
On Nov. 11, 1855, at the age of 25, he married 29-year-old Huldah Bisbee Reed, the daughter of Sampson and Huldah (Bisbee) Reed, in Rochester, New York. Huldah's twin sister Lydia Phelps Reed had married Bradbury's brother Joseph in 1852.
Bradbury Jr. was a farmer. He and Huldah moved to Glencoe, Minnesota, in 1857, built one of the first log cabins there and endured the hardships of pioneer life. They had three children: Clara Arnold, and twins Jennie Bisbee and Nettie Elizabeth.
During the Sioux uprising in August of 1862, Huldah was forced to flee their home in Glencoe with their three young children, the twins were only a couple months old, through what was called "The Big Woods" to the town of Carver, thirty miles away. They did not return until Little Crow's band of Santee Sioux had been driven away by soldiers.
Bradbury's whereabouts during this time are unknown, he may have been with Huldah, but it seems more likely he was with the men of the town somewhere dealing with the situation. We do know his brother Eliphalet was killed. The people of Glencoe were terrified and needed to know what was going on. Bradbury, it was reported, volunteered to ride out to Fort Ridgely and assess the situation, but Eliphalet said, "No, my brother. You have a wife and children to mourn your death, but I have none to mourn for me, if anything should happen to me while over there." Eliphalet seized the reins, sprang into the saddle, waved to the crowd and off he went. The danger was far greater than he knew. Near Fort Ridgely, the Indians quickly spotted him and gave chase. Eliphalet was cornered in a grove of trees by a river and killed on Aug. 22. He was robbed of $200 in gold and a watch. His tombstone reads, "Killed by the Indians at Fort Ridgely." His heroism probably saved the life of his brother Bradbury.
No doubt wanting to remove themselves from the dangers in Minnesota, Bradbury and his family moved back home to Maine. They were in Milton Plantation, Oxford County, on April 27, 1865, when Huldah's brother Civil War hero Axel Reed came to visit them. They were still in Milton at the time of the 1870 census, but moved back to Minnesota sometime after that.
Bradbury died in Glencoe on Aug. 16, 1907, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery there.
DESCENDANT OF WILLIAM "THE PIONEER OF BOSTON" BLACKSTONE
BROTHER-IN-LAW OF CIVIL WAR MEDAL-OF-HONOR-WINNER CAPT. AXEL HAYFORD REED
MINNESOTA PIONEER
BUILT ONE OF THE FIRST LOG CABINS IN GLENCOE, MN
HIS FAMILY ESCAPED THE SIOUX UPRISING OF 1862
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A BIOGRAPHY OF BRADBURY RICHARDSON, JR., by Laurence Overmire (great great nephew), genealogist and family historian, Aug. 2008:
Bradbury Richardson, Jr., was born in Gloucester, Maine, on Dec. 3, 1832 (some say 1830), the sixth of eight children of Bradbury and Jane (Rideout) Richardson.
On Nov. 11, 1855, at the age of 25, he married 29-year-old Huldah Bisbee Reed, the daughter of Sampson and Huldah (Bisbee) Reed, in Rochester, New York. Huldah's twin sister Lydia Phelps Reed had married Bradbury's brother Joseph in 1852.
Bradbury Jr. was a farmer. He and Huldah moved to Glencoe, Minnesota, in 1857, built one of the first log cabins there and endured the hardships of pioneer life. They had three children: Clara Arnold, and twins Jennie Bisbee and Nettie Elizabeth.
During the Sioux uprising in August of 1862, Huldah was forced to flee their home in Glencoe with their three young children, the twins were only a couple months old, through what was called "The Big Woods" to the town of Carver, thirty miles away. They did not return until Little Crow's band of Santee Sioux had been driven away by soldiers.
Bradbury's whereabouts during this time are unknown, he may have been with Huldah, but it seems more likely he was with the men of the town somewhere dealing with the situation. We do know his brother Eliphalet was killed. The people of Glencoe were terrified and needed to know what was going on. Bradbury, it was reported, volunteered to ride out to Fort Ridgely and assess the situation, but Eliphalet said, "No, my brother. You have a wife and children to mourn your death, but I have none to mourn for me, if anything should happen to me while over there." Eliphalet seized the reins, sprang into the saddle, waved to the crowd and off he went. The danger was far greater than he knew. Near Fort Ridgely, the Indians quickly spotted him and gave chase. Eliphalet was cornered in a grove of trees by a river and killed on Aug. 22. He was robbed of $200 in gold and a watch. His tombstone reads, "Killed by the Indians at Fort Ridgely." His heroism probably saved the life of his brother Bradbury.
No doubt wanting to remove themselves from the dangers in Minnesota, Bradbury and his family moved back home to Maine. They were in Milton Plantation, Oxford County, on April 27, 1865, when Huldah's brother Civil War hero Axel Reed came to visit them. They were still in Milton at the time of the 1870 census, but moved back to Minnesota sometime after that.
Bradbury died in Glencoe on Aug. 16, 1907, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery there.
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