Most family trees say born circa 1804.
Son of Archibald Branch and Elizabeth Moseley Branch, and a lineal descendant of the Walthall, Hancock, Cocke, Povall, Woodson, Lewis, and Hudspeth families, several of which were among the Order of First Families of Virginia.
Brother of Eliza Branch (1800-1863) who married Lewis Meacham Isbell and Martha Povall Branch (1810- ) who married Thomas Walton Isbell.
1820 Buckingham Co., VA. census New Canton Township
1821 Buckingham Co., VA personal property tax rolls
1823: John A. Branch sold all but 176 acres (155 acres?) sold by T.W. Isbell to N. Spencer (Buckingham Co., VA. Land Tax Summaries and Implied Deeds, Vol. 2, 1815-40)
1828: He sold 176 acres on headwaters SRR (7SW) to Nathan Spencer (ibid)
1830 Buckingham Co., VA. census
John Archibald Branch and his wife Eliza Anderson Isbell were born and lived in Buckingham Co., Virginia until 1834-5 when they moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky. They remained there for a year or more. From Kentucky they moved to near Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee and bought land there in 1837. They bought land in 1846-7 in the Rhodesville area, Lauderdale County, Alabama. Eliza died in 1849. John and some of his children were still in Lauderdale County in 1850.
23 Aug 1851 Lauderdale, Co., AL.: John A. Branch married a young girl named Mary A. Armistead. They had one child: Fontaine or Fountain Isbell Branch.
John sold his land in Lauderdale County and moved to Texas in 1851. The 1860 Census for Walker County, Texas doesn't show Mary or her son Fontaine.
Fontaine Isbell Branch's death certificate lists his parents as Mary A. Armistead and Lamar Fontaine (sic) Branch. Evidently the informant, Kirby Fontaine, did not know his grandfather's name and thought he was named for the famous Texan Lamar Fontaine.
Some family trees show his death as 1867, others as 1870. He died before the 1870 census.
Said to have been buried in a small cemetery that predated the Martha Chapel African American church at this site and now called the Martha Chapel Cemetery.
From Debra Tucker, April 16, 2000: "He died at the home of his son James Law Branch. He was buried at Martha's Chapel Cem., 9 miles SW of Huntsville, TX."
His daughter Elizabeth Ann Branch married her cousin James B. Isbell, and their son was
Capt. James B. Isbell whose son James Branch Isbell was the father of Katherine Isbell Murphy and grandfather of Harriet Ann Murphy Auchincloss whose father-in-law Reginald L. Auchincloss was a first cousin of Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr., the stepfather of novelist Gore Vidal as well as former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
Son of Archibald Branch and Elizabeth Moseley Branch, and a lineal descendant of the Walthall, Hancock, Cocke, Povall, Woodson, Lewis, and Hudspeth families, several of which were among the Order of First Families of Virginia.
Brother of Eliza Branch (1800-1863) who married Lewis Meacham Isbell and Martha Povall Branch (1810- ) who married Thomas Walton Isbell.
1820 Buckingham Co., VA. census New Canton Township
1821 Buckingham Co., VA personal property tax rolls
1823: John A. Branch sold all but 176 acres (155 acres?) sold by T.W. Isbell to N. Spencer (Buckingham Co., VA. Land Tax Summaries and Implied Deeds, Vol. 2, 1815-40)
1828: He sold 176 acres on headwaters SRR (7SW) to Nathan Spencer (ibid)
1830 Buckingham Co., VA. census
John Archibald Branch and his wife Eliza Anderson Isbell were born and lived in Buckingham Co., Virginia until 1834-5 when they moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky. They remained there for a year or more. From Kentucky they moved to near Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee and bought land there in 1837. They bought land in 1846-7 in the Rhodesville area, Lauderdale County, Alabama. Eliza died in 1849. John and some of his children were still in Lauderdale County in 1850.
23 Aug 1851 Lauderdale, Co., AL.: John A. Branch married a young girl named Mary A. Armistead. They had one child: Fontaine or Fountain Isbell Branch.
John sold his land in Lauderdale County and moved to Texas in 1851. The 1860 Census for Walker County, Texas doesn't show Mary or her son Fontaine.
Fontaine Isbell Branch's death certificate lists his parents as Mary A. Armistead and Lamar Fontaine (sic) Branch. Evidently the informant, Kirby Fontaine, did not know his grandfather's name and thought he was named for the famous Texan Lamar Fontaine.
Some family trees show his death as 1867, others as 1870. He died before the 1870 census.
Said to have been buried in a small cemetery that predated the Martha Chapel African American church at this site and now called the Martha Chapel Cemetery.
From Debra Tucker, April 16, 2000: "He died at the home of his son James Law Branch. He was buried at Martha's Chapel Cem., 9 miles SW of Huntsville, TX."
His daughter Elizabeth Ann Branch married her cousin James B. Isbell, and their son was
Capt. James B. Isbell whose son James Branch Isbell was the father of Katherine Isbell Murphy and grandfather of Harriet Ann Murphy Auchincloss whose father-in-law Reginald L. Auchincloss was a first cousin of Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr., the stepfather of novelist Gore Vidal as well as former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
Most family trees say born circa 1804.
Son of Archibald Branch and Elizabeth Moseley Branch, and a lineal descendant of the Walthall, Hancock, Cocke, Povall, Woodson, Lewis, and Hudspeth families, several of which were among the Order of First Families of Virginia.
Brother of Eliza Branch (1800-1863) who married Lewis Meacham Isbell and Martha Povall Branch (1810- ) who married Thomas Walton Isbell.
1820 Buckingham Co., VA. census New Canton Township
1821 Buckingham Co., VA personal property tax rolls
1823: John A. Branch sold all but 176 acres (155 acres?) sold by T.W. Isbell to N. Spencer (Buckingham Co., VA. Land Tax Summaries and Implied Deeds, Vol. 2, 1815-40)
1828: He sold 176 acres on headwaters SRR (7SW) to Nathan Spencer (ibid)
1830 Buckingham Co., VA. census
John Archibald Branch and his wife Eliza Anderson Isbell were born and lived in Buckingham Co., Virginia until 1834-5 when they moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky. They remained there for a year or more. From Kentucky they moved to near Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee and bought land there in 1837. They bought land in 1846-7 in the Rhodesville area, Lauderdale County, Alabama. Eliza died in 1849. John and some of his children were still in Lauderdale County in 1850.
23 Aug 1851 Lauderdale, Co., AL.: John A. Branch married a young girl named Mary A. Armistead. They had one child: Fontaine or Fountain Isbell Branch.
John sold his land in Lauderdale County and moved to Texas in 1851. The 1860 Census for Walker County, Texas doesn't show Mary or her son Fontaine.
Fontaine Isbell Branch's death certificate lists his parents as Mary A. Armistead and Lamar Fontaine (sic) Branch. Evidently the informant, Kirby Fontaine, did not know his grandfather's name and thought he was named for the famous Texan Lamar Fontaine.
Some family trees show his death as 1867, others as 1870. He died before the 1870 census.
Said to have been buried in a small cemetery that predated the Martha Chapel African American church at this site and now called the Martha Chapel Cemetery.
From Debra Tucker, April 16, 2000: "He died at the home of his son James Law Branch. He was buried at Martha's Chapel Cem., 9 miles SW of Huntsville, TX."
His daughter Elizabeth Ann Branch married her cousin James B. Isbell, and their son was
Capt. James B. Isbell whose son James Branch Isbell was the father of Katherine Isbell Murphy and grandfather of Harriet Ann Murphy Auchincloss whose father-in-law Reginald L. Auchincloss was a first cousin of Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr., the stepfather of novelist Gore Vidal as well as former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
Son of Archibald Branch and Elizabeth Moseley Branch, and a lineal descendant of the Walthall, Hancock, Cocke, Povall, Woodson, Lewis, and Hudspeth families, several of which were among the Order of First Families of Virginia.
Brother of Eliza Branch (1800-1863) who married Lewis Meacham Isbell and Martha Povall Branch (1810- ) who married Thomas Walton Isbell.
1820 Buckingham Co., VA. census New Canton Township
1821 Buckingham Co., VA personal property tax rolls
1823: John A. Branch sold all but 176 acres (155 acres?) sold by T.W. Isbell to N. Spencer (Buckingham Co., VA. Land Tax Summaries and Implied Deeds, Vol. 2, 1815-40)
1828: He sold 176 acres on headwaters SRR (7SW) to Nathan Spencer (ibid)
1830 Buckingham Co., VA. census
John Archibald Branch and his wife Eliza Anderson Isbell were born and lived in Buckingham Co., Virginia until 1834-5 when they moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky. They remained there for a year or more. From Kentucky they moved to near Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee and bought land there in 1837. They bought land in 1846-7 in the Rhodesville area, Lauderdale County, Alabama. Eliza died in 1849. John and some of his children were still in Lauderdale County in 1850.
23 Aug 1851 Lauderdale, Co., AL.: John A. Branch married a young girl named Mary A. Armistead. They had one child: Fontaine or Fountain Isbell Branch.
John sold his land in Lauderdale County and moved to Texas in 1851. The 1860 Census for Walker County, Texas doesn't show Mary or her son Fontaine.
Fontaine Isbell Branch's death certificate lists his parents as Mary A. Armistead and Lamar Fontaine (sic) Branch. Evidently the informant, Kirby Fontaine, did not know his grandfather's name and thought he was named for the famous Texan Lamar Fontaine.
Some family trees show his death as 1867, others as 1870. He died before the 1870 census.
Said to have been buried in a small cemetery that predated the Martha Chapel African American church at this site and now called the Martha Chapel Cemetery.
From Debra Tucker, April 16, 2000: "He died at the home of his son James Law Branch. He was buried at Martha's Chapel Cem., 9 miles SW of Huntsville, TX."
His daughter Elizabeth Ann Branch married her cousin James B. Isbell, and their son was
Capt. James B. Isbell whose son James Branch Isbell was the father of Katherine Isbell Murphy and grandfather of Harriet Ann Murphy Auchincloss whose father-in-law Reginald L. Auchincloss was a first cousin of Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr., the stepfather of novelist Gore Vidal as well as former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
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