Old naval days; sketches from the life of Rear Admiral William Radford, U S N. . INTRODUCTION 7 vided for as to fortune, and with six children, one of whom wasmy grandfather, John Radford. The other children of William and Rebecca Radford were:Carlton, who moved to Kentucky, where he and his family werelost sight of; William II, born May 27, 1787, a prominent citizenof Bedford County and president of a bank in Lynchburg; (itM-as for his branch of the family that the town of Radford, Va.,was named); Mary (Mrs. John Preston); Sarah (Mrs. ); and Marie Antoinette (Mrs. Edmundson), born i
Old naval days; sketches from the life of Rear Admiral William Radford, U S N. . INTRODUCTION 7 vided for as to fortune, and with six children, one of whom wasmy grandfather, John Radford. The other children of William and Rebecca Radford were:Carlton, who moved to Kentucky, where he and his family werelost sight of; William II, born May 27, 1787, a prominent citizenof Bedford County and president of a bank in Lynchburg; (itM-as for his branch of the family that the town of Radford, Va.,was named); Mary (Mrs. John Preston); Sarah (Mrs. ); and Marie Antoinette (Mrs. Edmundson), born in1793, the youngest of the family. Rebecca Radford outlived her husband by seventeen years;and Colonel Wythe Munford, her grandson, who remembered hisgrandmother perfectly, said of her: She had a wonderful talentfor description and anecdote, and there were few children shecould not attract by telling them incidents of the RevolutionaryWar. On December 23, 1806, John Radford (son of William andRebecca), then twenty-one years of age, married Harriet Ken-nerly, a bride of eighte
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