Edward S. Bragg married Cornelia Colman Bragg ((1830-1914) and they had three daughters ab d a son. The son, William Kohl Bragg (1856-1878) died young at age 21. The oldest daughter, Kate Colman Bragg Henry (1854-1895) married Clarence W. Henry. All three of these people are buried at Rienzi Cemetery in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Two daughters married military men.
Margaret Bragg Sherman (1859-1937) married Francis H. Sherman. She and her husband are buried at Mount Mora Cemetery in Saint Joseph, Missouri.
U.S. Navy Commodore. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy as a midshipman in 1871 and served as an officer in the Navy.
During the Spanish-American War in 1898, he was a lieutenant-commander in the North Atlantic Squadron in command of the monitor USS Passaic.
After the war, he served as Captain on the Navy Flag Staff and retired as one of the Navy's last commodores.
--Old Secesh
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