{"id":120,"date":"2016-09-30T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/?p=120"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:01:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:01:46","slug":"sarah-hall-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/sarah-hall-bradley\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Hall Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah Hall Bradley Memorial Steps, erected by the Charter Garden Club of Columbus, Georgia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sarah Hall Bradley was a prominent southerner whose legacy lives on through her charitable foundation, the W. C. and Sarah Hall Bradley Foundation. \u00a0She was born around the late 1860s, married W. C. Bradley in 1887, and died in 1936. \u00a0Her father was a wealthy Connecticut financer of shipbuilding, but she grew up in Columbus, Georgia. \u00a0Her husband, son of a slaveholder in Columbus, Georgia, was a wealthy businessman who owned a cotton firm, and bought Coca-Cola with a group of investors in 1919. \u00a0Sarah had two children, Forbes and Elizabeth. \u00a0Forbes died a few months after he was born, but Elizabeth grew up to marry D. Abbott Turner. \u00a0The two couples joined their charitable foundations into the Bradley Turner Foundation, which continues to give grants to universities throughout Georgia, including the University of Georgia. \u00a0Sarah was a daughter of the American Revolution and a well-loved citizen of Columbus, Georgia for most of her life.<\/p>\n

\"Steps<\/a>Sarah was one of 20 founding members of the Charter Garden Club of Columbus, Georgia. \u00a0As noted in the club’s 1939 scrapbook, “the Club was deeply sadened [sic] by the loss of one of its most beloved members when Mrs. W. C. Bradley passed away on December 30, 1936.” The Ladies Garden Club of Athens, instigators of the Founders Memorial Garden at UGA, sponsored the admission of the Charter Garden Club into Georgia’s Garden Club organization in 1929. The clubs under this umbrella helped raise funds for the Founders Memorial Garden, and also contributed several monuments to the garden.\u00a0The Charter Garden Club erected steps in the Founders Memorial Garden at UGA in memory of Sarah Hall Bradley circa 1940, around the time of the garden’s opening. \u00a0The steps connect a sunken perennial garden to the courtyard behind the Founders House. \u00a0Both Sarah and her daughter Elizabeth are remembered\u00a0in gardens in Athens; Elizabeth is memorialized by the Elizabeth Bradley Turner Rose Garden at the State Botanical Gardens.<\/p>\n

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Sources:
\n\u201cCharter Garden Club Scrapbook, 1937-1938.\u201d Columbus, GA, 1938. Garden Club of Georgia records, box 46. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Athens, GA.<\/p>\n

\u201cCharter Garden Club Scrapbook, 1938-1939.\u201d Columbus, GA, 1939. Garden Club of Georgia records, box 47. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Athens, GA.<\/p>\n

\u201cD. Abbott Turner (1892-1982).\u201d New Georgia Encyclopedia. Accessed September 30, 2016. http:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/articles\/business-economy\/d-abbott-turner-1892-1982.<\/p>\n

Daughters of the American Revolution. Lineage Book – National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Vol. XXIX. Daughters of the American Revolution, 1899.<\/p>\n

\u201cFounders Memorial Garden \u2013 College of Environment + Design.\u201d Accessed September 26, 2016. http:\/\/www.ced.uga.edu\/about\/facilities\/founders-memorial\/.<\/p>\n

Kennedy, Linda J., and Mary Jane Galer. Historic Linwood Cemetery. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004.<\/p>\n

\u201cSarah Hall Bradley ( – 1936) – Find A Grave Memorial.\u201d Accessed September 30, 2016. http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22397791.<\/p>\n

\u201cW. C. Bradley (1863-1947).\u201d New Georgia Encyclopedia. Accessed September 30, 2016. http:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/articles\/business-economy\/w-c-bradley-1863-1947.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Hall Bradley was a prominent southerner whose legacy lives on through her charitable foundation, the W. C. and Sarah Hall Bradley Foundation. \u00a0She was born around the late 1860s, married W. C. Bradley in 1887, and died in 1936. \u00a0Her father was a wealthy Connecticut financer of shipbuilding, but she grew up in Columbus, … Continue reading Sarah Hall Bradley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}