Bardsley, Betty (1820-1908)

BARDSLEY

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Date: 3/10/2007 at 20:22:08

Betty Bardsley
Mar 26, 1820 - Jan 19, 1908

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.183, Neola Twp.)
Mrs. Betty Bardsley, Neola, was born in Cheshire, England, March 26, 1820, daughter of Charles and Ellen (Hibert) Bradley, natives of England; he was born in February 1794, was a miner and farmer in England and died December 23, 1878; she born about 1800, was the mother of ten children, of whom three came to America. Mrs. Bardsley was first married, in England, August 29, 1841 to John Handbury, born in England February 8, 1814. They came to America in 1850 and to Council Bluffs April 15 of that year. Mr. Handbury was engaged in farming near Macedonia for eighteen months when he died, leaving his wife and four children - Elizabeth, David, Ann and Joseph E. Mrs. Handbury kept herself and children until her second marriage, which occurred July 17, 1852. Mr. Bardsley, her second husband, was born in England July 21, 1800, and came to America in 1850, settling in Highland Grove, where he lived at the time of his marriage to Mrs. Handbury. One year after their marriage, they moved onto the farm where Mrs. Bardsley now lives. There, from 1854 till is death, Mr. Bardsley followed farming. He was Justice of the Peace several years. He died December 20, 1860, from injuries received by the kick of a cow. Mrs. Bardsley has by her second husband four children - John J., Charles B., Ellena dn Thomas R.; the latter is at home; Charles B. owns a farm of eighty acres adjoining the home farm. The latter place consists of 240 acres in one body, situated on Bardsley's Creek, five miles west of Neola. Mrs. Bardsley has one son in the mercantile business in Neola, and one keeping a restaurant. Charles B. was married April 1, 1880 to Miss M. J. Spencer. James Ward, the husband of Mrs. Bardsley's eldest daughter, died in the service of his country in 1864.
[Betty's 2nd husband was Joseph Thomas Bardsley, July 15, 1800 - Dec 20, 1860]