Charles Bradway, Sr. (1817-1897)

BRADWAY, HUMES, ROBERTS

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Date: 1/16/2010 at 17:55:44

Maquoketa Record, Maquoketa, Iowa, March 10, 1897

Passes To A Higher Life

Charles Bradway, Sr. was born June 26, 1817, in Salem County, New Jersey. He was married to Miss Rachael Roberts in March, 1843, and removed with his family to Jackson County, Iowa, in the Spring of 1862, where his wife passed to a higher life four weeks later. There was born to this union eight children, four of whom Edwin, Beulah, Charles and Albert, survive him. In 1873 he was married to Mrs. Lucinda Humes, who preceded him in death in 1893. Mr. Bradway was one of the few who was endowed with the necessary qualifications to round out a most beautiful and noble life. He was a close student of nature and her divine laws, which through his force of character and fine intellectual attainments, he was enabled to follow. His life was one worthy of emulation. He was true and just to himself, his family and his neighbors. He was a man of exceedingly good judgment and worked to better the conditions of mankind. He was conversant upon almost any subject that might be introduced, and was capable of discussing the same in a clear and comprehensive manner. He was a man of fine sensibilities and was attributed with nothing but the purest motives. He was a man in life it was a pleasure to meet, and by his acts in life he secured the confidence and esteem of his many friends and acquaintances. He was like the ripened grain, ready to be garnered home and prepared for a further unfoldment in the cycles of time. He closed out his present life on the old homestead in Farmers Creek Township on Friday, March 5, 1897. The funeral services were held at the Esgate School House at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Mrs. J. M. Harvey, pastor of the Spiritual Society, officiating.

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