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Branham

BRANHAM: Subject to change of families

Emily Branham is the only Branham name in the original members . R. Branham is named in the early church minutes book one.

A search of the federal census failed to find Emily Branham in 1850 or 1860 in Callaway County. No burials in the cemetery under this name. There was an Emily Johnston who married Richard C. Branham in Boone County. In 1850 they were living in Columbia, Boone County and he died in 1857, a victim of drowning at Galveston, Tx.

The 1850 census does not reveal an Emily Branham, although she could have died in this three year period.

"On the 27^th ult. At the residence of her father, Mr. John Hobson, Mrs. Elizabeth Branham
Ann Branham, wife of Dr. N. E. Branham, aged 30 years. Mrs. Branham was a native of Virginia," from whence she emigrated with her parents in the year 1839 to this county --. Sept. 15, 1848 4/2

The 1860 census has the following:

Household 975
HOBSON, John 66 M Va.
Louisa 48 F Va.
Alfred 36 M Va.
James 26 M Va.
Caswell 24 M Va.
Elisa 24 F Mo.
Patsy 16 F Mo.
Mary 12 F Mo.
Hester 10 F Mo.
Eldridge B. 9 M Mo.
Sarah BRANAHAM 34 F Va.
John WILLIAMS 37 M Va.
Sophia WILLIAMS 37 F Va.