Fifth Generation
222. Lorena O'Kelley was born before 1840. Lorena O'Kelley and William Joe Broadley were married. William Joe Broadley, son of Samuel W Broadley, was born about 1853 in Illinois, United States.
William J. Broadley is a son of Samuel W. Broadley, a native
of Liverpool, England, whose father, Ferrell Broadley, also
came originally from England, being proprietor of the “Fax
Hall Spinning Company;” of the interests of that concern,
still extensive and profitable, our subject is one of the
heirs. Samuel Broadley came to America
in 1849, a few years after his marriage, and was occupied in
the mercantile business in the State of New York the
following year. He then took the “gold fever” and went to
California, leaving his family
in New York, and engaged in the mining of the precious metal
until 1853, when he was killed by an accident in a mine in
which he was working. He was married in Liverpool to Miss
Phœbe Covington, a native of that country and a daughter of
Frederick Covington, a merchant, and, at the time of his
death, at an advanced age, a man of considerable means. Mrs.
Broadley is still living and a resident of New Orleans. She
also has a brother in this country, a member of the firm of
Covington & Co., of Salt Lake City. Of the children of Mr.
and Mrs. Broadley, five are still living: Ida (wife of Frank
S. Snell, a prominent real estate agent and broker of
Denver, Colo.), Alice M. (wife of a Mr. Patton, a merchant
of Memphis, Tenn.), William T. (an attorney of New Orleans),
Henry J. (who is in the employ
of the Government as a chemist) and William J. (the
principal of this sketch). The latter was born in Steuben
County, N. Y., in 1852. After his father's death his mother
moved from New York, going to several places, and finally,
in 1862, to Memphis, Tenn., where they lived one year; later
she became located at New Orleans and still lives there. Mr.
Broadley learned the trade of a machinist when a young man,
at which he worked in different States, but finally settled
in Lee County, where he was employed at his chosen
occupation until 1887. Then he purchased his present farm,
and has since turned his attention to farming. He was
married, in 1879, to Miss Lorena
O'Kelley, a daughter of Overton
and Mary O'Kelley, natives of
Alabama and Georgia, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Broadley
have four children: Frederick C., Charles O., Ida L. and
William S. (now deceased). Mr. Broadley owns a fine farm of
440 acres, with nearly 300 acres under cultivation, and is
engaged in raising stock. He and wife are members of the
Missionary Baptist Church. He is a Democrat in politics, and
is a prominent man of Spring Creek Township. He belongs to
no secret societies, but before entering the agricultural
list of Lee County, belonged to the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers. |
Biographical
and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas
LEE COUNTY–RECENT ORGANIZATION–CHEATIVE ACT–SEAT OF
JUSTICE–OFFICERS OF TRUST–DURING WAR TIMES–POLITICAL
COMPLEXION–VALUATION–DEVELOPMENT–CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS–PEHIOD
OF SETTLEMENT–LOCATION, AREA AND POPULATION–STREAMS, SOILS,
ETC.–NATURAL YIELDS–STOOK RAISING INTERESTS–SKETCH OF
MARIANNA AND HAYNES–NUMEROUS SELECTED SKETCHES.
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Lorena O'Kelley and William Joe Broadley had the following children: 510 | i. | Fredrick C Broadley was born (date unknown). | 511 | ii. | Charles Overton Broadley was born on 17 April 1887. He died in April 1974 at the age of 87 in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States. | 512 | iii. | Ida Broadley was born in 1889. |
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