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One of the first sixteen students, Etta Littlejohn Bradford, was first taught on The Morning Star steamboat school in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As a nursing graduate of Oakwood School, she continued her training at New England Sanitarium in Massachusetts. Ms. Etta Littejohn had the unique distinction of providing nursing care to Ellen G. White. Etta Littlejohn later married Robert Bradford, an Oakwood student, who became the mother of Charles E. Bradford, who later became an Oakwood graduate, who became a well-known Adventist leader and the first black person to serve as president of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
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Etta Littlejohn, student, first of sixteen, Elder Charles Bradford, mother, Oakwood Industrial School, Huntsville, Alabama