Walter Bradley (1862-1889)

BRADLEY, ROOKE, SAMPSON, VAN STEINBURG

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 4/15/2013 at 08:10:34

Jackson Sentinel, February 14, 1889

Walter Bradley-

The body of Walter Bradley was brought here at 7:30 last Friday evening accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Allie Sampson of Chicago and a brother-in-law, Captain Benjamin Van Steinburg, of Preston. Conveyances were at the depot to take the remains and those who accompanied them to Andrew. When the funeral party arrived a large number of people had gathered at the hotel and Bradley mansion to see the body of Walt, as he was familiarly known in the town of his birth and boyhood. The parents were bowed with sorrow and have the sympathy of many friends as their life has been one of much trouble. The young man's career had been wild, and its tragic ending was not a great surprise to those long acquainted with him.

The funeral took place Saturday afternoon from the residence and was very largely attended. Mrs. Roda Rooke, of Sigourney, Mrs. Sampson and Miss Fannie Bradley, of Chicago, all sisters of the deceased, and Benjamine Van Steinburg were the only near relatives present. The coffin was beautifully bedecked with flowers. Rev. Crinklaw, Methodist minister, preached a brief sermon and the body was laid to rest in the family burying ground. Mr. Bradley was aged 27 years and the youngest child in a family of seven living children. His father, an old resident, has represented Jackson county in the Iowa legislature several times in the years gone by, is a scholarly gentlemen and highly esteemed and until recently has followed the practice of law.

Mrs. Bradley was buried at Englewood and the funeral was very largely attended, the floral decorations were beautiful and the sermon deeply impressive, the minister giving the deceased the title of "A Brave Little Woman."

(Walter Bradley murdered his wife and committed suicide-Jackson Sentinel, February 14, 1889.)

Walter Bradley grave
 

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