More of my 262 direct ancestors in America lived in Bradley County than in anywhere else in the country - at least 15 of them. Not surprisingly, Bradley County is also the locale where my longest string of ancestors have lived, in three senses:
- The most consecutive years (over 145), from the time my great*3 grandfather Levi Trewhitt moved arrived in the early 1830s until my grandfather, Clarence Richmond, Sr, died in 1980,
- The most consecutive generations of ancestors who lived and died in Bradley County (3), from Levi Trewhitt's daughter Mary Ann through her grandson, my grandfather, Clarence Richmond, Sr., and
- The most consecutive generations of ancestors who were born or died in Bradley County(5), from Levi Trewhitt through his great-great grandson, my father, Clarence Richmond, Jr.
I know that no one closer to me than 4th cousins live in Bradley County now.
Here's the application portion of my ancestry:
┌── John Richmond (1770 Virginia -1845
Bradley Co, TN)
┌── John Richmond (??)
│ └── Nancy Segoe?? (1772 Tennessee - ??)
┌──William Rogers Richmond (1822 Hamilton Co, TN - 1862
Bradley Co, TN)
│ └── Nancy ?? (1772 Tennessee - ??)
│
┌── Jacob Rogers Richmond (1859
Bradley Co, TN- 1927
Cleveland, TN)
│ │
│ │ ┌── Jacob Adam Wattenbarger (1809 Washington Co, TN - 1882
Cleveland, TN)
│ └──Mary Wattenbarger (1838 Greene Co, TN -
Cleveland, TN)
│ └── Susannah Barger (1816 Washington Co, TN - 1878
Cleveland, TN)
│
┌── Clarence Lester Richmond, Sr (1895
Bradley Co, TN - 1981
Cleveland, TN)
│ │
│ │ ┌── Jacob Bacon (1802 Washington Co, TN - 1860 Washington Co, TN)
│ │ ┌──Benjamin Franklin Bacon (1834 Washington Co, TN - 1915 Galena, MO)
│ │ │ └── Elizabeth Keebler (1799 Rockbridge Co, VA - 1870
Bradley Co, TN)
│ │ │
│ └──Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bacon (1861
Bradley Co, TN - 1946
Cleveland, TN)
│ │
│ │ ┌── Levi Trewhitt (1795 North Carolina - 1862 Mobile, AL)
│ └──Mary Ann Trewhitt (1836
Bradley Co, TN - 1886
Cleveland, TN)
│ └── Harriett Lavender (1803 Morgan Co, TN - 1855
Cleveland, TN
Clarence Lester Richmond, Jr (1928
Cleveland, TN - Living 2022 in Searcy, AR)
└── Edith Kuykendall Hutcheson (1898 Bledsoe Co, TN - 1996 Tulsa, Ok)
Among the ancestors shown above,
- My great grandfather Benjamin Franklin Bacon and my grandmother Edith Hutcheson Richmond lived in Bradley County most of their lives, but were; not born nor died there.
- Jacob Bacon, and the parents and grandmother of William Rogers Richmond never lived in Bradley County, and
- I know (with confidence) ancestors of Jacob Wattenbarger (3 generations), Susannah Barger (4), Jacob Bacon (2), Elizabeth Keebler (3), and Edith Hutcheson (11 in America)
© 2023 Robin Richmond, Cleveland, OH