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always managed to find time for Sunday
School and church attendance, however.
In 1984, Larry Logan married Jill Collins
of Houston. Their formal wedding ceremony
was solemnized in Houston's First Baptist
Church. She is working toward her degree in
sociology at Sul Ross, and they reside on
Lightning Ranch, Marathon, Texas.
Larry L. Boswell and wife, Mattie Nell
Bonds Boswell, are engaged in ranching on
their land along the Brazos River that has
belonged to their families some 130 years. He
also is employed by Brown and Root, contrac-
tors for the Comanche Peak plant being built
near Glen Rose.
They are active in the Lake Whitney
Baptist Church and are gospel singers; Larry
serves as deacon, and she is pianist. At
present, she has an organized choir that
regularly presents a program for the pleasure
of rest home residents and other groups.
by Mattie Nell Boswell
BRADSHAW, HOMER G.which they had bought west of Kopperl. They
lived on the farm until 1968, when they
bought and moved to a house in Kopperl.
Homer died in 1970. Lillian still lives in
Kopperl, where she continues activities in the
Baptist Church, with the Senior Citizens, and
with the Auxiliary of the Kopperl Volunteer
Fire Department.
In 1931, Gerald Claybrook Bradshaw was
born to Homer and Lillian at Steiner. In 1955,
Gerald (Jerry) married Margaret Lucille
Odom. They have two children, Larry
Wayne, born in Dallas, in 1957, and Becky
Lynn, born in Dallas, in 1960. Becky Lynn
married Stuart Owen. They have a daughter,
Stephanie Lynn.
Mattie Joanne, born in Kopperl in 1933,
married Gordon Green of Paris, Texas. Their
children are Joella Ann, born in 1953, Debbie
Lee, born in 1954, and Ronald Gene, born in
1957. All were born in Paris. Joella married
Larry Brazile of Paris. Their children are
Christi Renee and Jennifer Lynn. Debra Lee
married Bill Dean of Tyler, and has a son,
Ryan Alexander. Ronald Gene married Julie
Collier. They have a daughter, Jessica Marie.
In 1962, while with her husband andFamily of Mrs. Lillian (Claybrook) Bradshaw. Left: Gordon Green family and Mrs. Bradshaw. Right: Gerald
Bradshaw family.Homer Gorman Bradshaw, son of William
Henry and Mattie Lynn Childress Bradshaw,
was born at Kopperl in 1901. In 1927, he
married Lillian Claybrook, daughter of Jo-
seph Edwin and Mattie Mae Boswell Clayb-
rook of Steiner (Fowler). Lillian was born
there in 1904.
As young people, Homer and Lillian met
at a party at the home of Lonnie and Elsie
Archer in Kopperl. Afterwards Homer and
some friends drove past the Claybrook home
many times, but he could not summon
courage to stop and call on her. Finally, he did
find the courage to call on her, and ask her
to marry him. Their first Kopperl home was
south of the railroad where many of the
railroad section hands, called "snipes", lived,
causing that part of town to be called "Snipe
Alley." Some people thought they lowered
their social status by living there. Neverthe-
less, they lived there from 1931 to 1949.
In 1949 Homer and Lillian moved to a farm
170friends on a vacation trip to Colorado, Joanne
was killed in a carwreck. Being a faithful
church attendant, Joanne and party stopped
enroute to attend church. Since the regular
pianist was absent, Joanne played the piano
for the services.
After Joanne's death, Gordon Green
married Sarah Pate of Paris. She is a
wonderful mother and grandmother, and
warmly welcomes Lillian into her home.
Lillian Claybrook Bradshaw
BRADSTREET, FRANK K.
FAMILY
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It is with great admiration and a privilege
for me to give some background on the
Bradstreet family. My grandfather, FrankMr. and Mrs. Frank Bradstreet 50th Wedding
Anniversary-1941
Kelsey Bradstreet, was born in 1866 in
Warren County, Ohio. He was the younger of
two sons of Milton Bradstreet and Mary
Elizabeth Kelsey Bradstreet who came to
Bosque County from Ohio in 1877 and settled
on their farm and ranch land in the Garner-
sville community seven miles northeast of
Clifton.
The land, comprising 640 acres, was pur-
chased by John M. Bradstreet of New York
in 1850, which is an early date for Bosque
County. Originally, the land consisted of 2200
acres purchased by John M. Bradstreet, sight
unseen. He gave a gentleman 1000 acres of
land to come to Texas to settle this property.
It was not until 1877 that Milton Bradstreet,
son of John M. Bradstreet and Margaret
Bradstreet moved to this land with their
family. Milton Bradstreet was at one time
associated with his father in the Mercantile
business-the firm at that time was John M.
Bradstreet and Sons, Improved Mercantile
and Law Agency for Cities, 237 Broadway,
New York, N.Y. The same firm is now known
as the Dun and Bradstreet Corporation with
offices throughout the world. The above
mentioned land was deeded by John M.
Bradstreet to Milton Bradstreet in 1855.
It was in 1891 that Frank Kelsey Brad-
street married Jinnie Bird Strange, daughter
of D. Strange and Alabama Georgianna
Bolander Strange in Kopperl. The Strange
family moved to Kopperl in 1877 from
Alabama, coming by a Mississippi riverboat
to New Orleans and covered wagon to Bosque
County. They were plantation owners in
Alabama and were burned out during the
Civil War; hence, they moved westward to
make a new start. Jinnie Bird Strange was
born near Selma, Alabama, in 1874.
To the union of Frank Kelsey Bradstreet
and Birdie Strange Bradstreet progenies
were Milton Kelsey Bradstreet, Erna Pearl
Bradstreet, and Frances Anna Lee Brad-
street. Grandchildren from the union of
Milton Kelsey Bradstreet and Mary Evelyn
Stanford are Milton Kelsey Bradstreet, Jr.,
and Marilyn Bradstreet Malott; from Erna
Pearl Bradstreet and Williard Murphree
were Francis, Gwendol, Rex, Mozelle, and
Vernon Murphree; and from the marriage of
Frances Anna Lee Bradstreet to Hector
Reeder Hill-Jack Reeder Hill and Harold
Kelsey (Buddy) Hill.
The Frank K. Bradstreet family continued
to farm until moving to Clifton in 1919. At
this time they owned and operated a soft
drink bottling company for many years in
downtown Clifton.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank K. Bradstreet engaged
in extensive farming and ranching, banking,
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Bosque County History Book Committee. Bosque County: Land and People (A History of Bosque County, Texas), book, 1985; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91038/m1/186/?q=campbell: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.