Gwinnett County GaArchives Biographies.....Branham, W. R. January 10 1850 - living in 1911
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Author: J. C. Flanigan
Rev. W. R. Branham.

	The pastor of the Lawrenceville Methodist church is Rev. W. R. 
Branham. He was born in Macon, January 10th, 1850. His father, Rev. W. R. 
Branham, Sr., was a member of the North Georgia Conference for 58 years, 43 of 
which he was actively engaged in the ministry, and was a presiding elder 14 
years. He was pastor of the Lawrenceville work in 1843, and died at Oxford in 
1894 in his 81st year.

	The present pastor is a graduate of Emory College, class 1869. He was 
licensed to preach October 18, 1870, and joined the North Georgia Conference 
December, 1870.

	He was married to Miss Addie Singleton, ,December 21, 1881.

	Mr. Branham served the Conyers circuit as junior preacher in 1871; 
Subligna circuit in 1872; Baldwin circuit in 1873, Edgewood station in 1874; 
Nacoochee circuit in 1875-6; Edgewood station in 1877; St. Paul, Atlanta in 
1878; Oconee St. station in 1879-80; Dahlonega station in 1881 Dahlonega 
district as presiding elder in 1882-3-4; he was then transferred to the Indian 
Mission Conference, Indian territory, and served six months on the Choctaw 
district. He was then appointed by Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, secretary of the 
interior, as superintendent of the Chilacco Indian Industrial Training school, 
where he remained three and a half years.

	In 1888, he came back to the North Georgia Conference and served 
Newborn circuit in 1889-90; second church, Rome, in 1891; Harmony Grove 
circuit in 1892-3;. Sparta station in 1894-5-6; Milledgeville station in 1897-
8-9; Cartersville station in 1900; Barnesville station in 1901-2; Jackson 
station in 1903-4-5-6; Social Circle in 1907-8-9-10; and is serving 
Lawrenceville church at the present time (1911).

	He has received into the church about 1,500 persons, and married 400 
couples.



Additional Comments:
From:

GWINNETT CHURCHES
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY CHURCH
IN GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA,
WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF ITS
MINISTERS
BY
J. C. FLANIGAN
1911

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