Troup County GaArchives Obituaries.....Branson, Charlotte "Lottie" (Lanier) [ Mrs. Eugene C. ] April 24, 1940 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Valerie [ Johnson ] Freeman http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00009.html#0002248 August 26, 2007, 8:29 pm "The New York Times" New York, New York Issue of April 25, 1940 Mrs. E. C. Branson Special to The New York TImes Chapel Hill, N. C., April 24 -- Mrs. Lottie Lanier Branson, widow of Dr. E. C. Branson, former head of the Department for Rural-Social Economics in the University of North Carolina, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at her home here this morning. Her age was 73. She was born in West Point, Ga., and had lived in Chapel Hill twenty-seven years coming here from Athens, Ga., where Dr. Branson had been teaching. Surviving are two sons, Lanier of Aiken, SC, and Phil of Atlanta, Ga., and two daughters, Mrs. Young Smith of New York and Miss Elizabeth Branson of Chapel Hill. Additional Comments: Charlotte was born ca May 1868 to Elijah Frank Lanier and Susan Elizabeth Cherry. She married Eugene C. Branson on 27 Sept 1888 in Troup Co., Georgia. Dr. Branson died 13 Mar 1933 in Durham Co., NC. Their daughter, Edith, is Mrs. Young Smith. * North Carolina Death Collection, 1908-1996 Name: Lottie L Bronson Death Date: 24 Apr 1940 Death County: Orange Death State: North Carolina Death Age: 73 Birth Date: 1867 Race: White Source: NC State Archives. North Carolina Deaths, 1908-67 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/troup/obits/b/branson8004gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb