At that time Charles Bradley and his family were running the Haldimand Municipal Telephone exchange. They lived in the house now occupied by Peppers Cafè, next to the Grafton Hotel. In June, 1927, Mr. Bradley contracted pneumonia and died, leaving his wife, Florence Joice, and four children; these were Dorothy—then Mrs. Charles Hobart of Cobourg—Joseph (Joe), Dorita, and fourteen year old Gordon.

That September Joe married Ivy Taylor of Cobourg, and on December 3rd Harvey Bryson and Dorita Bradley (1909–1983) were married at the Methodist manse in Colborne.

On August 13, 1929, James Bradley (Jimmy) Bryson was born, and two years later, on February 20, 1932, his little sister Jean Dorita Ann came along.

On January 12, 1934, Jimmy broke through the ice on a pond in the centre of the village and drowned. He was four-and-a-half years old at the time of his death.

Subsequently, Dorita and Harvey went on to have five more children:
– Robert Gordon (Bob), July 3, 1935
– William Harvey (Bill), June 7, 1937
– John Douglas, May 6, 1944
– Samuel Charles Peter, May 14, 1950
– David Kendal, February 10, 1954

On January 12, 1965, Bob underwent open heart surgery at the Toronto General Hospital. He died two days later, leaving his wife, Sheila, and two sons, James Timothy (Tim) and Stephen Patrick (Steve).

Harvey enrolled in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 as an aero-engine mechanic. Following his discharge in 1945 he worked for Cec. Wilson in Cobourg before opening his own garage in Grafton. In the mid fifties he began working at the Canadian Army ordinance depot in Cobourg, until his death on August 22, 1963.

Dorita raised her family in the house on Charlotte Street which Harvey had built the summer following their marriage. In 1965 she went to work at the town hall in Grafton as Haldimand Township Clerk-Treasurer. She continued in this job until her retirement in 1976. Dorita Bryson died on Monday, May 9, 1983.

Harvey, Dorita, Jimmy, and Bob are buried in the family plot at Fairview cemetery, one mile east of Grafton.

Descendants:

Jean married Roland (Mickey) Wiedmann of Montreal and had six children
Bob married Sheila Hogan of Cobourg and had two children
Bill married Barbara Linton of Upminster, England, and had two children
John married Ana Iriondo of San Sebastian, Spain, and had four children
Peter Married Gayle Barr of Cobourg and had two children
David married Mary Price of Cobourg and had two children

The decendents of Dorita and Harvey Bryson also number 18 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and 8 great-great-grandchildren.