"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZ8-RJQ : 9 November 2014), Tompkins Bradley, Jackson, Johnson, Missouri, United States; citing family 824, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SBWC-QD7 : accessed 2016-08-15), entry for Tomkins /Bradley/.
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I am very curious to find out about John Wesley Bradley's life, if anyone has more information. I can see that he grew up in the Tennessee-Kentucky area and started his family, yet he somehow ended up moving to California where in died in 1888. Was it the Gold Rush? Was it something else that drew him there?