Birth of Mrs. Westby, daughter of Edward and Rebecca (Chamberlin) Bradley, in Crawford county, Pennsylvania.

The evidence

• “Benedict's mother, Mrs. Westby, was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1831, to Edward and Rebecca (Chamberlin) Bradley, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of Pennsylvania. Her parents removed to Wisconsin in 1845 and settled on a farm in the township of Turtle, in Rock county, where the mother died at the age of fifty-two.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 494 / book p. 980

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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