[image courtesy of Diana Martin Lehman-Needham, Massachusetts]
SANTINI FAMILY
STEPHEN BRADFORD
Stephen Bradford was the progenitor of the Bradford family of Biloxi and Ocean Springs, Mississipi. He was born in Connecticut and was decended from William Bradford (1590-1657), the first governor of the Plymouth Colony (1621), and Alice Hansen Bradford. They were the first Bradfords to settle in the New World.
TIMELINE
CIVIL WAR [1861-1865]
January 9, 1861 - Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union.
January 13, 1861 - Confederate forces occupy Ship Island.
TIMELINE
1837
The Diocese of Natchez was established by the Roman Catholic Church on July 28, 1837.(The Mississippi Register, August 3, 1962)
THE ITALIANS of ST. MARTIN
COMFORT FAMILY
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Louise Milles Comfort (1888-1989) and Edward Comfort (1883-1969)
