This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kdF.2ACIB/295.2 Message Board Post: The Walter Branson you are referring to is Walter Henry Branson, son of Alvin Thorpe Branson and Mary Eliza Simmons. Walter was born 8 Nov 1889 in the town of Merced, Merced County, CA. He was raised in Mariposa County, a miner's son. He was, as they say, not the brightest lightbulb in the chandelier and lived with his parents lifelong. After they died, he continued residing in the same house in Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA, where the family had moved in 1914. His sister Maude Branson Chamberlin was his housemate after the death of the parents, and she survived him. Walter never married and never had children. Maude had one child, Doris Curtis, married name Fette, who in turn never had children. Descendants of Walter and Maude's other siblings, James Sutton Branson, Florence Winnifred Branson, and Ivan Thorpe Branson, are still around. Walter served in the military toward the end of World War I. In Stockton he was for many decades a firefighter. He died 16 Feb 1966 in Stockton. For more info, go to "http://home.comcast.net/~davesmeds/walterbranson.htm".