1827-1906
Adoniram Judson Bradley
Soldier/Farmer/Watchman MA
Adoniram Judson Bradley was born 2 March 1827, just 6 weeks before little Marie Elizabeth Butterworth Judson died in Burma at age two, the third child of missionaries Ann and Adoniram Judson to die too young. Bradley was born in Russell, MA, and was a farmer and lumber dealer before the Civil War. At age 34, in 1861, he mustered into the15th Massachusetts Infantry and by May, 1862, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant. He was wounded in the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, MD, 17 September 1862 but two days later he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant. At the Battle of Fredericksburg, VA in December 1862 he was wounded again, this time in the face, but was soon thereafter promoted to captain. He resigned the army because of disability in November 1863.
The 1870 census shows that he was watchman at the First National and Hampden Banks, Westfield, MA. The US Census listed him as a farmer at Springfield, Hampden County in 1880 and in Westfield in 1900. Adoniram Judson Bradley died May 13, 1906 and is buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Westfield, MA.[1]
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[1] Adoniram Judson Bradley, https://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=5791