The
Oregon State Archives:
http://genealogy.state.or.us/ has a record for "Bradley, Isaac" (Enter as such). This is 1902 Estate Record. Contact this site for copy of the record. I don't know what this record would contain.
has a record for Ida
McCormick Bradley
I find a family tree owned by "DeWanna62" on Ancestry.com
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?pid=-1461193234&...=
If you have a subscription to Ancestry, you can review it. If not, try your local library, many offer access through your library card. Dewanna is in
Oregon, email
gisami@yahoo.com . The tree holds a picture of Isaac.
She has Isaac born Feb 1851 in
Illinois, died March 1902 at
Eagle Point,
Jackson Co. Marriage to Ida May
Hull, born about 1869, died 9 Sep 1937 in Olene,
Klamath Co, OR. She was also married to a James D. Lawrence, born 1873. Isaac was also married to Mary C. Hull about 1887. With Mary they had two daughters and four sons. This family tree has a photo of Charles Edward Bradley, 1889-1956.
The 1900 census (image) for Big
Butte,
Jackson CountyIsaac born Feb 1851 in
Illinois, a farmer
Mary C. (This is a "C" as written the same as other "C's" on the page, if it were an "I", then I could see a potential same person issue between Ida May
Hull and Mary C. Hull). Mary born Feb 1868 in
Oregon. They were married 13 years (1886/1887, census enumerated June 7th). So, if Isaac was married to an Ida May, it would have "probably" have been prior. From the above family tree, Ida was from
California and doesn't appear to have left
California until after the 1920 Census, unless between census' she moved back and forth. She and James Lawrence had a son John, born 1907 in
Oregon. Neither woman's parents are identified.
The 1900 Census shows Isaac as a farmer. The
Bureau of Land Management Land Patent records (Homestead Act)
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/shows Isaac A. Bradley obtaining 160 acres of land on 5/16/1894 in
Jackson County. This land was located on three parcels:
Township 34-South, Range 1-East,
1. Section 22, the East half of the NE corner.
2. Section 22, the NE portion of the SE corner.
3. Section 23, the SW portion of the NW corner.
(The Homestead Act:
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AH-Homestead.html )
Does that tell you anything? To find this land:
Now go to
http://www.esg.montana.edu/gl/trs-data.html Change the State to
Oregon, input Township 34 and South; Range 1 and East, and Section 22.
In this next window, you'll see some basic information about the land. Note the closest places are:
1. the mouth of
McNeil Creek 1710 meters.
2. the mouth of
Clark Creek, 1787 meters.
3. the mouth of Quartz
Creek, 1827 meters.
4. the mouth of Neil
Creek, 1833 meters.
Now click on "
Switch to TerraServer" about middle of the window.
Now, in this new window, click on the largest blue block for size, and click on Topo Map, both just above the picture.
In this new window, you'll see a topographic map. It has a number of creeks identified in blue (turquoise if you want). The map is divided into red squares. These are Sections. Each Section contains 640 acres. You can find
McNeil Creek and Neil
Creek near the center, toward the bottom. You'll see
Butte Creek about the middle.
Now, find where the Neil
Creek and
McNeil Creek meet. Then go into the red square just above that. At that top of that red square, you'll see where these now joined creeks, meet with Big
Butte Creek.
Put your cursor of your mouse in THAT red square, and left click. In the next map, find the same square and left click again.
In this next map, you'll see where the
McNeil Creek meets the Big
Butte Creek just at the top of that red square. This square now has a red 23 in the middle of it. This is section 23. Section 22 is just to the left.
From above, his land was:
1. Section 22, the East half of the NE corner.
--Look at the red square for section 22. Divide it into quarters (half horizontally and half vertically. Divide the top right quarter into half vertically. His land was in that area, the east half of this NE corner, a total of 80 acres.
2. Section 22, the NE portion of the SE corner.
--Divide the section again in quarters. Now look at the bottom right corner. Divide that corner into quarters. He had the top right portion of that corner, a total of 40 acres.
3. Section 23, the SW portion of the NW corner.
--Now in Section 23, divide it into quarters. In the top left corner, divide it into quarters. He had the bottom left portion of that quarter, a total of 40 acres. Now together add to his 160 acres.
To access his land, you can see some old dirt roads, faint double dash lines in both section 22 and 23. His address in the 1900 Census was "Big
Butte", so he lived here then. There are some paved roads that lead to those old dirt roads. If I had to "Guess", they went to
Eagle Point or White City for supplies, north on route 62, the
Crater Lake
Highway. Then just past the route 234, there is a road to the right going up to the Big
Butte area. It starts out as the
Butte Falls Highway, then becomes the
Butte Falls Road. They then would go up the
Crawford Road. This road continues north up to
McLeod, again meeting the
Crater Lake
Highway. McLeod is east of Trail. To better see this area, go to
www.mapquest.com and enter
McLeod,
Oregon. Follow the
Crawford Road north (zoom in on the map to the 4th blue rectangle. You will see "Blm 34-le-15.1". This is a BLM road. You'll see two dirt roads to the right. The top one does go very close to his property.
Ron Bestrom