William Andrew Bradshaw was born, April 4, 1857, in Missouri, the only son of Miles
  and Christina (Dunway) Bradshaw. He had two sisters, Malissa and Harriet Ellen. His
  father was killed during the Civil War.
     As a young man he headed west, coming to Kansas and Oklahoma. He freighted with a
  covered wagon from Kansas into Oklahoma and Texas. He also was a horse trader who
  headquartered near Hennessey, Oklahoma, mking trips from there to buy and sell horses.
  On one such trip up this way, as darkness fell, he pulled into a farm yard and asked
  for permission to camp for the night. That his how he met Grandma.
     Florence (Brumley) Evans was born, June 4, 1860, in Champaign County, Illinois, the
  oldest daughter of Francis Marion and Sarah Jane (Arnold) Brumley. She had married Henry
  Franklin Evans at Wellington, Kansas. They were living in Oklahoma when she lost her
  husband and one child. She returned to Kansas, near Medicine Lodge, to be near her folks
  with her other son, Roy.
     Grandpa and Grandma were married on October 25, 1896, in Medicine Lodge. They lived
  on a farm about 8 miles southeast of town. They had two children; Orla Franklin, born
  February 26, 1898, and Lila Christine, born April 26, 1901.
     Grandma Bradshaw died December 4, 1916. After that Grandpa sold the farm, moving to
  the Gerlane vacinity awhile, then to Kiowa, and later to Medicine Lodge, where he lived
  with us for a few years. He helped Mother with the younger children.
     I remember him as being nearly blind and when he filled his plate to eat, sometimes
  his food would be sort-of mixed. We kids would say something to him about it, as kids do. 
  He always replied that it all went down to the same place so it didn't make any difference.
  We seemed to think it did.
     As long as his health permitted, Grandpa used to hitch-hike or ride the rails to visit
  his relatives in Missouri and Texas. Grandpa died on November 24, 1935.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 113