Two times a year the Johnson County Historical Society publishes "The Bulletin". In this issue, I told an old story that my grandmother also knew about. So had the girls on the Warrensburg H.S. pep club bus. The older girls taught us as we rode the bus to games by the Pittsville cemetery we were supposed to wave for luck. Since working at the JCHS I have looked a little bit into the "Bradley Brothers".
Well, since the newsletter came out last week, I have found out "the rest of the story".
Not only are the Bradley Brothers the only stone facing U.S. Highway 50, one of two brothers, Richard Bradley had the grave turned 90 degrees to face the new highway, because Reuben would have wanted to see the cars go by. Reuben passed away in 1937 and his brother followed, after a few happy years of retirement in the Ozarks before he, too, was laid to rest next to his brother.
-- Pittsville is listed as Jackson County, it seems, on Google Maps (it let me edit though), but everywhere else, it is counted as one of our Johnson County Towns.
