Ravenel Singleton BRADWELL, Sr.

1833 - 1900  (67 years)

• Name	Ravenel Singleton BRADWELL
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	21 Mar 1833	Packsville, (Paxville), South Carolina   [1, 2]
  Baptism	11 Nov 1855	by W. D. Rice   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Religion	received by letter 11 Jun 1871 from Home Branch Church  [3]
  _UID	8DBBDDE1EFA243E38CBBA76E3F02C6204046
  Death	4 Jun 1900	Mayesville, Sumter County, South Carolina   [1, 2, 4]
  Burial	5 Jun 1900	Singleton Cem, Sumter, South Carolina, United States   [2, 5]
  Person ID	I5837	Singleton and Related Families
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2002

  
  

  Father	Jacob BRADWELL,   b. Abt 1810, South Carolina
  Mother	Epsy S. SINGLETON,   b. Abt 1812, South Carolina d. Aft 1860 (Age > 49 years)
  Marriage	by 14 Jun 1833	South Carolina   [2, 6, 7]
  _UID	4393355FF23D4904993FB2105EE0B05DCB4D
  _UID	4393355FF23D4904993FB2105EE0B05DCB4D
  Family ID	F2112	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anna Elizabeth "Espy" BRUMBY,   b. 18 Feb 1835, Sumter, South Carolina d. 28 Apr 1880, Sumter, South Carolina (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	5 Apr 1853  [2]
  _UID	51448E6F35B84705A62169CA12118B88FB62
  _UID	51448E6F35B84705A62169CA12118B88FB62
  Children	1. Ravenel Singleton BRADWELL, Jr.,   b. Jul 1854, Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina bur. Singleton Cem, Sumter, South Carolina, United States   2. Robert Pinckney BRADWELL,   b. 17 Mar 1858, Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina d. 28 Jan 1924, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina/Aiken, Aiken County, South Carolina (Age 65 years)   3. William Joseph BRADWELL,   b. 1859, Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina   4. Joseph S. BRADWELL,   b. 1860, Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina   5. Henry Hinkley BRADWELL,   b. 16 Mar 1861, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina/or San Antonio, Texas d. 10 Apr 1937, Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, United States (Age 76 years)   6. Jacob BRADWELL,   b. 19 Nov 1864   d. 9 Nov 1907 (Age 42 years)   7. Frances Elizabeth BRADWELL,   b. Abt 1867/8, South Carolina, United States   8. Richard Brumby BRADWELL,   b. 22 Sep 1870, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina/or San Antonio, Texas d. 11 Oct/Dec 1884, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina/or San Antonio, Texas (Age 14 years)   9. Anna Laurene BRADWELL,   b. 5 Aug 1874, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina/or San Antonio, Texas d. 30 Jul 1875, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina/or San Antonio, Texas (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F2113	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Mattie A. SMITH,   b. 19 Jan 1835, Gwinette, Georgia
  _UID	5B48A89AD4F9465E8E320F430CE1507318F4
  _UID	5B48A89AD4F9465E8E320F430CE1507318F4
  Family ID	F15893	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Ravenel was a Clerk of Court in Sumter, South Carolina. According to Edna Bradwell Edwards there was a first child, who died named Anna Elizabeth Bradwell. That would make Ravenel, Junior. born in 1855 instead. On 10 Feb 1875, Ravenel S. Bradwell received the power of attorney from William T. Baker, who was living in Baldwin County, Georgia, appointing Ravenel S. Bradwell as Mr. Baker’s power of attorney. Book BBB page 200, Ravenel paid $800.00 toward the purchase of a lot on Washington Street in Sumter, South Carolina, from William F. B. Haynsworth. On 28 Apr 1886, Ravenel S. Bradwell accepted the trusteeship of the deed of Susannah C. Kolb (Mrs. J. C. Kolb). On 12 October 1886, Ravenel S. Bradwell as Attorney-in-fact for Margaret E. Fagan acknowledged satisfaction of a promisory note. (There were no regular Union soldiers in South Carolina, there may have been militia or possibly he could have been a Confederate and just misunderstood that only Union soldiers were being enumerated.) Bundle 161 SD 4. ED 131, 1890 Census of Union Soldiers, living in South Carolina, Line #24 House #522, Family #545, lists Ravenel S. Bradwell (looks like Ravend S. Bardwell) as a US Soldier in the Civil War. There were no Union Regulars in South Carolina but there were Union Militia and spies. Perhaps this Union Sympathy is what separated this family from the rest of the Bradwells who were definitely on the Confederate Side of the War. The death is taken from a family register owned by Turner Wilcox and was copied by Edna Bradwell Edwards. He is also in the 1900 Mortality Schedule for Sumter, South Carolina. Ravenel and his wife are buried in the Lewis/Singleton Cemetery just outside Sumter, South Carolina. Three of their children are also interred there. Ravenel died intestate. His wife and children could not make the payments on their property and returned it to Mr. William F. B. Haynsworth from whom it was originally purchased as the value of the land was not worth the mortgage according to the deed registered in Book 000 Page 570. Mentioned in this deed were Mattie A. Bradwell, the widow, and children: Ravenel S., Robert P., Jacob , Henry Hinckley, F. Elizabeth Wilcox, and William Joseph Bradwell. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] . [S41] . [S698] page 66. [S1826] page 16. [S698] page 25. [S7] George Kay gedcom file. [S27] .