U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brady, John Calvin (1851-1924) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Pages 396-397 JOHN CALVIN BRADY is a farmer of Meade District. Was born January 18, 1851, son of William S. Brady and Frances Jane Lemon, the daughter of James Lemon and Elizabeth Jackson of Bath County, Va., and the grandson of John Brady, of Pennsylvania, who emigrated from there to Pendleton County, and thence to Randolph County, at the age of twenty-one. John Brady was twice married, had four children by his first wife, two daughters and two sons, all now dead. One of these daughters was the great grandmother of Dr. O. B. Beer. John Brady's second wife was Susanna Ware, of Randolph County, and by this marriage he had two sons, William S. Brady and Allen Brady, and five daughters, Christian, who married an Alkire; Ellen, who married a Coburn; Nancy, who married a Simons; Ruth, who married John W. Abbott; Sarah, who married Eliah Butcher. The father of the subject of this sketch settled in Upshur County in 1837, on the waters of French Creek. Was a farmer and had fifteen children: Salina B., wife of L. R. Cutright; Delilah J., wife of John W. Loudin; Caswell E., married Martha Phillips, the daughter of Ebenezer Phillips and Catherine Loudin; A. W., married Ellen Perry and Celia Burr for his second wife and Mary Nixon for his third wife; Granville B., who married Mary Rowe of Barbour County; Perry S., married Olive Phillips, daughter of Franklin Phillips; Lucretia E., wife of Samuel W. Loudin; James D., married Bertha Gould, daughter of Marshall Gould; Loyd N., married Sarah Crites, the daughter of Abraham Crites; Martha S., wife of Sydney Perry; William Tecumseh Sherman, who married Hattie Thorp, daughter of Major Thorp; Idella Alice, married Ward Phillips, son of David Phillips, and now the wife of Henry Alestock. The subject of this sketch married Malissa E. Phillips, the daughter of Ebenezer Phillips, the granddaughter of William Phillips and the great granddaughter of David, and to this union have been given six children, two now living whose names are: Loyd D., born 1873, now dead, married Lauda Loudin; Royal Preston, born 1877, died 1896; George T., born 1880, dead; Don G., born 1877, dead; Eula M., born 1885; Minnie D., born 1890. J. C. Brady was educated in the common schools and has been farming all his life, except the time he was engaged in performing the duties of political offices. He has been constable of Meade District, Jailor of Upshur County under Sheriff A. J. Marple, and guard at the Moundsville Penitentiary eight years, from 1897 to 1906. He owns a farm on the waters of Grand Camp of French Creek in Meade District, where he now lives, pursuing his favorite occupation in his well inherited Scotch-Irish ways. Caswell E. Brady, the present Superintendent of the Poor Farm of Upshur County has held that position for two years. He was the oldest son of his parents. Was a soldier in Company G, 1st West Virginia Cavalry during the war, under Captain Hagans, enlisting March 3, 1865, and being discharged July 1865. His children are: Stella F., the wife of John Smalldridge, Jr.; Catherine Edna; Mellie French; Anna Lee; Victor Francis. At the time he was made superintendent of the poor farm, he was a farmer of Meade District, where he owned eighty-five acres of good land, on which he had a grist mill, which he operated for several years with success before the introduction of improved machinery. He is a decendant of Samuel Brady, the noted Indian Scout of Ohio, as are all the Brady family of Upshur County. Samuel Brady will always be remembered by the great leap he made, when pursued by Indians, and the spot of the leap and the incident of its occurrence is known in American History as Brady's Leap. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #1279 FULL-NAME: J. C. Brady BIRTH-DATE: January 13, 1851 BIRTH-PLACE: W.Va. DEATH-DATE: January 31, 1924 DEATH-PLACE: Sago, Meade District, Upshur County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: FATHER: William Brady (born in W.Va.) MOTHER: Frances Lemons (born in W.Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Apoplexy / First Stroke was in 1920 INFORMANT: Glen Hammer (of Sago, W.Va.) BURIAL: Laurel Fork Cemetery ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------