Bennett Branham

Birth Date

1823-04-10

Death Date

1896-07-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Branham and Susan Quinn Branham. Married to Lucy Ann Quinn Branham in Scott County, Kentucky, on May 20, 1847. Father of Amanda Branham, Susan Branham, and Sidney Branham. Farmer in Scott County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Farmer in Scott County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 457A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 629.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 928.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 220A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, p. 228A-B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film #000183225, p. 237 of 331 of microfilm.
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. 101: 1913, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939), p. 221.
"Bennett Branham (1823-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial #223896979, accessed October 31, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/223896979.

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