ABOVE - William J. Bradford’s grave as it sits today, in Pioneer Rest Cemetery. Brent Bratton, photo.
ABOVE - William M. McDougal’s grave in the Fort McKavett Cemetery. Brent Bratton, photo.
One hundred and fifty years ago, Menard County was on the edge of organized Texas. In 1871, a county government was formalized in a gesture to bring law and order to what was then a raw and often violent frontier. With the American Civil War finally played out and Fort McKavett reactivated, people once more began to filter into the western Edward's Plateau. A few families already called Menard Cou…
