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Note for: Grady Terrill Braddock, -
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Individual Note: Sheriff Grady Terrill Braddock
Orange County Sheriff's Office
Florida
End of Watch: Tuesday, May 26, 1998
Cause: Vehicular assault
Biographical Info
Age: 29
Tour of Duty: 3 years
Badge Number: Not available
Deputy Sheriff Grady Braddock was killed when a vehicle involved in a pursuit struck his patrol car. Deputy Braddock was responding to an officer needs assistance call for an officer from a local police agency who was chasing the vehicle.
Deputy Braddock was approaching the area when the suspect vehicle, traveling approximately 100 mph, broadsided his patrol car on the driver’s side. Deputy Braddock and the passenger in the suspect's vehicle were killed while the suspect suffered minor injuries.
Deputy Braddock had served with the Orange County Sheriff's Office for three years. He is survived by his wife and parents.
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GRADY TERRILL BRADDOCK, 29, Ocoee, died Wednesday, May 27. Mr. Braddock was a deputy sheriff. Born in Homestead, he moved to Central Florida in 1994. He was a member of Garden Cathedral Church of God. He was an Army veteran of the Gulf War. Survivors: wife, Shaun; parents, Daniel and Frances, Lakeland; sister, Kimberly, Braddock; maternal grandparents, John and Daisy Foster, Lakeland. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Winter Garden.
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Note for: Patricia Ann Braddock, 8 MAY 1944 - 6 NOV 1999
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Individual Note: Patricia A. Braddock, 55, Aviles Street, died Nov. 6, 1999, at Memorial Hospital, Ormond Beach. She was a former resident of Daytona Beach. She was born in Savannah, Ga., and she was reared in this area, attending Mainland High School. She earned a master's degree in English literature at the University of Florida, and also earned a master's degree at the University of North Florida. She was employed as a teacher of English at St. Augustine High School from 1984 - March 1999, when she had a heart attack.
She was a member of Trinity Chapel, St. Augustine, serving on the worship team and singing in the choir. She was also a member of Maria Jefferson Chapter, DAR.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the chapel of the Baggett and Summers Funeral Home, 736 S. Beach St., Daytona Beach, with the Rev. Donavan Tinsley, senior pastor of Trinity Chapel, St. Augustine, officiating. Burial will follow.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 10 a.m. Thursday until the hour of service.
Survivors include her mother, Christine Braddock, Ormond Beach; one brother, Robert Braddock, Winter Haven; a sister, Merry Day, Ormond Beach; four nephews and two nieces.
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Note for: Francis Marion, 1732 - 26 FEB 1795
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Individual Note: From Wikipedia:
In 1775 he was a member of the South Carolina Provincial Congress. On June 21, 1775, Marion was commissioned captain in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment under William Moultrie, with whom he served in June 1776 in the defense of Fort Sullivan and Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor.
In September 1776 the Continental Congress commissioned Marion as a lieutenant colonel. In the autumn of 1779 he took part in the siege of Savannah, and early in 1780, under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, was engaged in drilling militia.
Marion was not captured when Charleston fell on May 12, 1780, because he had broken an ankle in an accident and had left the city to recuperate.
After the loss in Charleston, the defeats of General Isaac Huger at Moncks Corner and Lieutenant Colonel Abraham Buford at the Waxhaw massacre (near the North Carolina border, in what is now Lancaster County), Marion organized a small unit, which at first consisted of between 20 and 70 men and was the only force then opposing the British Army in the state. At this point, Marion was still nearly crippled from the slowly-healing ankle.
Marion joined Major General Horatio Gates just before the Battle of Camden, but Gates had no confidence in him and sent him (mostly to get rid of him) to take command of the Williamsburg Militia in the Pee Dee area. Gates asked him to undertake scouting missions and to impede the expected flight of the British after the battle. Marion thus missed the battle, but was able to intercept and recapture 150 Maryland prisoners, plus about 20 of their British guards, who had been en route from the battle to Charleston. The freed prisoners, thinking the war was already lost, refused to join Marion and deserted.
Marion showed himself to be a singularly able leader of irregular militiamen. Unlike the Continental troops, Marion's Men, as they were known, served without pay, supplied their own horses, arms and often their food. All of Marion's supplies which were not obtained locally were captured from the British or Loyalist ("Tory") forces.[citation needed]
Marion rarely committed his men to frontal warfare, but repeatedly surprised larger bodies of Loyalists or British regulars with quick surprise attacks and equally quick withdrawal from the field. After the surrender of Charleston, the British garrisoned South Carolina with help from local Tories, except for Williamsburg (the present Pee Dee), which they were never able to hold. The British made one attempt to garrison Williamsburg at Willtown, but were driven out by Marion at the Mingo Creek.
The British especially hated Marion and made repeated efforts to neutralize his force, but Marion's intelligence gathering was excellent and that of the British was poor, due to the overwhelming Patriot loyalty of the populace in the Williamsburg area.
Colonel Banastre Tarleton was sent to capture or kill Marion in November 1780; he despaired of finding the "old swamp fox", who eluded him by travelling along swamp paths. Tarleton and Marion were sharply contrasted in the popular mind. Tarleton was hated because he burned and destroyed homes and supplies, whereas Marion's Men when they requisitioned supplies (or destroyed them to keep them out of British hands) gave the owners receipts for them. After the war, most of the receipts were redeemed by the new state government.[citation needed]
General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share His Meal by John Blake White; his slave Oscar Marion kneels at the left of the group.Once Marion had shown his ability at guerrilla warfare, making himself a serious nuisance to the British, Gov. John Rutledge (in exile in North Carolina) commissioned him a brigadier general of state troops.
When Major General Nathanael Greene took command in the South, Marion and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee were ordered in January 1781 to attack Georgetown but were unsuccessful. In April they took Fort Watson and in May they captured Fort Motte, and succeeded in breaking communications between the British posts in the Carolinas. On August 31 Marion rescued a small American force trapped by 500 British soldiers, under the leadership of Major C. Fraser. For this action he received the thanks of the Continental Congress. Marion commanded the right wing under General Greene at the Battle of Eutaw Springs.
In 1782 during his absence as state senator at Jacksonborough, his brigade grew disheartened and there was reportedly a conspiracy to turn him over to the British. But in June of that year, he put down a Loyalist uprising on the banks of the Pee Dee River. In August he left his brigade and returned to his plantation.
After the war, Marion married his cousin, Mary Esther Videau.[3] His nephew Theodore had hinted to his uncle that it was time to get married. His relatives and friends informed him that Mary always listened with glowing cheeks and sparkling eyes when anyone began reciting the exploits of the Swamp Fox. Marion was in love earlier with Mary Esther Simons but she refused his proposal and married Jack Holmes.[4][verification needed]
Marion served several terms in the South Carolina State Senate. In 1784, in recognition of his services, he was made commander of Fort Johnson, South Carolina, practically a courtesy title with a salary of $500 per annum. He was originally supposed to receive 500 English pounds a year, but economy-frightened politicians reduced his payment to 500 Continental dollars.[citation needed] He died on his estate in 1795, at the age of 63.