This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Branson Jackson Stockwell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kdF.2ACIB/336 Message Board Post: Galesburg IL Register Mail James A. Branson Oneida - James A. Branson, 77, of Oneida, died Thursday at 11:30 am in St. Mary's hospital, where he was a patient the past four weeks. He had been ill the last five and one-half years. Funeral rites will be held Sun(misprint) employed as a carpenter at Rowe (misprint) Methodist Church. Friends may call at the Hendricks Funeral Home Saturday evening. Burial will be in the Oneida cemetery. Mr. Branson was born March 10, 1880, in DeSoto, attended schools in Grand Power and moved to Oneida 30 years ago. He was employed as a carpenter at Rowe Mfg. Co. in Galesburg about 10 years, retiring in 1942. He was married to Dollie Stockwell in Denver, Colo., Feb. 22, 1914, and wa a member of the Oneida Methodist Church and Masonic Lodge in Oneida. Survivors are his wife; a son, James M. of Union*; a daughter, Mrs. Iva Jackson, Huntsville, Ala.; a brother, William of River Rouge, Mich.; 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Four sisters preceded him in death. Mr. Branson served as justice of the peace 27 years in Ontario Township. * I believe this is Unionville, MO.