William Harrison Bradley, 47, Railroad Conductor, Has Died, Dec. 24, 1920

Captain William Harrison Bradley, for many years a conductor in the service of the Seabord Air Line Railroad, residing at 515 Fourth Avenue, Cottage Place, died at 1:12 o’clock yesterday morning in a Norfolk hospital after an illness of eight weeks’ duration. Captain Bradley was 47 years old. He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Bessie M. Bradley; two daughters, Misses Ruth K. And Virginia B. Bradley; a son, Bruce B. Bradley of Northampton County; and five brothers, John, Jesse, Thomas and Grover Bradley, all of Northampton County, and Marcus Bradley of Wilmington, Del. Captain Bradley was a member of Seaboard Lodge No. 56, A.F. and A.M., and also the Scottish Rite bodies—Lodge of Perfection, Rose Croix and Auld Consistory. He was also a member of Kehdive Temple, Mystic Shrine, and R.E. Lee Lodge, No. 205, Order of Railroad Conductors. The body was removed yesterday to the residence. It will be forwarded tomorrow over the Seabord Air Line Railroad to Thelma, N.C., where the funeral service will take place. Burial will be made in the family plot near Thelma. (From the front page of the Roanoke Rapids Herald, Dec. 24, 1920)