Hugh Brady, Jr. and Mary M. Gunn

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Husband Hugh Brady, Jr. ¹

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           Born: 20 Oct 1837 - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: Aft 1909
         Buried: 

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         Father: Hugh Brady (1796-1874) 2
         Mother: Polly Reed (1794-1879) 2

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       Marriage: 28 Dec 1860 - Clayton, Adams Co, IL 1

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   Other Spouse: Eliza Jane Stover (1840-      ) 3 - 25 Dec 1887 - Lima Co, KS 3

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Wife Mary M. Gunn ¹

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           Born: 21 Nov 1842 - Washington Co, PA 1
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           Died: 13 Oct 1886 - Woodson Co, KS 4
 Cause of Death: Tuberculosis
         Buried:  - Ebenezer Cemetery, Houston Twp, Adams Co, IL

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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Brady, Jr.

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Yates Center, Woodson Co, KS

When about eighteen years of age he went with his father to Xenia, Ohio, and from thence to Quincy, Illinois. He first moved to Kansas in 1867. He returned to Illinois in 1871 and moved back to Kansas in 1884. He was very successful as a Pension Claim Attorney and Notary Public. Over one thousand soldiers' claims were on his books receiving and awaiting his attention.
He became totally blind January 13, 1905, and was entirely dependent on his wife and his step-daughter, Miss Cora Dexter.

In a personal letter to the author he says, in part:
"I enlisted at Clayton, July 26, 1862, as a private in Company I, 84th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry mustered into United States service at Quincy, September 1st, 1862, and left with the regiment on September 28th. Marched from Louisville, Ky., and was in the battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8th, 1862. Went into battle on Stone River, Tenn., on December 30th, 1862, and the battle raged until January 4th, 1863. Lost over half of my regiment in killed and wounded. Was on detail January 5th, 1863, to help bury the dead. Helped to dig a ditch seven feet wide by twenty-five feet long and lay forty-seven of our 84th regiments dead in it who were killed in battle December 31st. We put forty-seven men in this one grave, and laid them across the ditch, beginning at the head of Company A, then F, D, I and C, and so on just as they had stood in rank. Four of the boys belonged to my company. It tried men's souls, yes, the hardest hearted soldiers shed tears. I am compelled now to lay the pen down till I wipe the tears from my eyes as the sad scene comes fresh to my memory, though thirty-four years have passed since.
"I was severely wounded in my hand in the battle of Chickamauga, Ga., September 19, 1863, and was in Nashville Hospital one month, then in a hospital at Louisville, Ky., one month, then was sent to Quincy, Ill.
"Returned to my command at Camp Blue Springs, Tenn., March 15, 1864. Marched out on beginning of campaign and went into a bayonet charge at Battle of Rocky Pace Gap, Ga., May 9th, 1864. Was badly injured in my back by being hit with a fragment of a shell, but did not leave my company. Was again wounded with an ounce ball in my left breast and shoulder at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., on July 1st, 1864. On the third day of July the ball was cut out and I was sent back to Nashville. Gangreen got in the wound and came near killing me, but I was under a splendid good surgeon, Dr. Robert McNeely, of Ohio, who cured me. I was then transferred on October 29th, 1864, to the 149th company, 2nd Battalion, V. R. C., at Nashville, Tenn. Guarded rebel prisoners until mustered out of the service June 30th, 1865.
"I was engaged in the following battles: At Perryville, Ky., and many skirmishes, Woodberry, Stone River and Hoover's Gap, Ringgold, Reseca, Big Shanty Station, Lofty Mountain, New Hope Church, Adairsville, Kingston, Kenesaw Mountain, Apple Jack, Bradyville, Tenn., and Chickamauga.
"I omitted to say that I had seven bullet holes shot through my clothes and hat in the Seven Days Battle of Stone River, but no blood drawn."

1 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 46.

2 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 21.

3 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 50.

4 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 48.