Point of origin: Sevierville - was the only point and, of course, that no one I know seems to be able to pin down this Levi's parents. Original Message: ----------------- From: Yvonne ybowers@comcast.net Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 07:39:16 -0800 To: salina5@ev1.net Subject: RE: [BRANSON-L] John Sevier BRANSON Sr. Sorry, no. Did you have reason to think there was? At 9:34 AM -0500 3/7/05, salina5@ev1.net wrote: >Is there a Levi amongst any of these children - the one married to Mary >Eleander Langston in or about Sevierville, TN, who was also a Civil War >veteran and died in Brown, OK? > >Original Message: >----------------- >From: Yvonne ybowers@comcast.net >Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:52:44 -0800 >To: BRANSON-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [BRANSON-L] John Sevier BRANSON Sr. > > >Folks, > >On Ancestry.com (and in our own files) we have some confusion >regarding the wife/wives of John Sevier BRANSON Sr. b. 1826 TN. d. >1905 CA. Margaret Read has sent a transcribed copy of his will and >it appears he was m. to Martha Jane OWSLEY/OUSLEY/HOUSELY from 1846 >until his death and they had 10 children. She d. 1908. > >A few sources attribute another wife to this John, a Harriett SLATER >or Harriett WEST, but when would he have been married to her? >Supposedly she was b. 1817 and d. abt. 1900 so if he was married to >her it would have been before Martha and would have been a divorce. > >We also show her as married Reuben BRANSON (brother of John Sevier >Sr. ) b. 1813 and married abt. 1868. This seems more likely however >we have the same problem as John. We show Reuben m. to a Sarah >CRISMON in 1837. Sarah d. abt. 1900 (although her last child was b. >1858). Supposedly Reuben and Harriet had 3 children between 1869 >and 1871 so it's possible Sarah died before 1868 and Reuben remarried >Harriett. > >Can any of you shed some light on this? >-- >Yvonne Bowers (Looking for Liner BRANSON b. 1790 KY) >BRANSON Mailing List >BRANSON Most Wanted http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/branson.html >Thomas L. BRANSON/Elizabeth DAY Family File: >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.HTM > > >==== BRANSON Mailing List ==== >Thomas BRANSON/Elizabeth DAY Family File >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.HTM > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >mail2web - Check your email from the web at >http://mail2web.com/ . -- Yvonne Bowers (Looking for Liner BRANSON b. 1790 KY) BRANSON Mailing List BRANSON Most Wanted http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/branson.html Thomas L. BRANSON/Elizabeth DAY Family File: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.HTM -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .