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/340.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There is much more at my John Sevier Branson website. Go to "http://home.comcast.net/~davesmeds/bransonfrontpg.htm" and you'll find details on John and his wife Martha Jane Ousley and all ten of their children, forty-five of their grandchildren, and sixty-four of their great-grandchildren. I keep stuff about subsequent generations off-line because I don't wish to intrude on the privacy of living individuals, but here in brief is the skinny on Blaine's family. I omit the birthdate of one sister because I believe she is still alive. From Joseph Branson and Ellen Margaret Geary (my own great-grandparents), six children: John Joseph Branson (1880-1966), Marguerite Ellen Branson (1881-1933), Alvin Arthur Branson (1883-1905), Grace Mildred Branson (1885-1974) (my grandmother), and twins Ernest Elton Branson (1891-1965) and Eldridge Geary Branson (1891-1972). These six kids were all born and raised on a ranch north of Hornitos, Mariposa County, CA near the mining outpost of Quartzburg. They moved in adulthood to various parts of California. From Eldridge Geary Branson, spouse Clara Elvaria Jackson (1892-1974), two children: Hugh Geary Branson (17 Feb 1916 - 14 Mar 1955) and Joseph Eldridge Branson (9 Jan 1918 - 1 Jul 1962). Hugh and Joseph were born, lived, and died in San Bernardino, CA. Joseph Eldridge Branson's spouse has yet to be fully identified, but her first name was something like Iva and her last name probably Laster, if not Lester, Laseter, or Lancaster. Their five children, all born in San Bernardino, were Ernest Eldridge Branson (27 Jul 1938 - Nov 1979), Joseph Geary Branson (30 Sep 1939 - 12 May 1940), Blaine Allen Branson (18 Dec 1940 - 26 Dec 1997), Anna Louise Branson (date withheld), and Gladys Janet Branson (17 Aug 1944 - 14 Aug 1985). You may note an pronounced tendency of the descendants of Eldridge and Clara Branson to die young. If anyone knows more about this group, I'd love to get the info. My inner-family records cease as of 1974 and I've had to piece the rest together from public sources.