Branch, Theophilus in the Union Army; Winn, Rapides, LA
Submitter: Junior Branch
Date: 17 Oct 2006
Source: NARA
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                      Deposition
 Case of Mary Branch---,No.617622
 On this 19 day of June,1902 at near Hill,County of Winn state of La.
 before me,S.S.Galiher,a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions,
 personally appeared Nancy Bennett,who being frist duly sworn to
 answer truly all interrogatories propounded to her during this special
 examination of aforesaid claim for pension,deposes and says:I am about
 60 years of age,wife of James Bennett residence near and post office
 address is Hill La.I am a sister of the deceased Theophilus Branch,his
 youngest sister.I was born and reared in Marion county Mississippi.My
 brother left Miss.before I did and came here with William Fatheree,my
 brotherinlaw.He married Mary Dyess before I came here.I know that he
 was never married before he married Mary Dyess,as he had never been
 married in Mississippi.My brother had been in this state six or seven
 years before he married.We came to the same neighborhood from Mississippi
 that my brother did when he came to this state,we have lived here ever
 since.I am postive that he was never married before he married Mary Dyess
 I always understood that this woman had never been married before she
 married my brother.These people lived togather as husband and wife
 from the time I came to this neighborhood until his death and never
 divorced. My brother lay out in the woods until he was finally cought
 by some confedarate cavalry during the civil war.I do not remember to
 what place this cavalry carried brother Theophilus,but he told me that
 he got away from them in less than a month.I think that my brother went
 directly from the confederates to the union army but I was not here
 at that time,and do not know much about it.I have haerd my statement
 read and my answers have been correctly recorded.

 witness                     her
  ??? Bennett        Nancy E  x BENNEtt
                            mark
                          deponent

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19 day of June 1902 and I certify
 that the contents were fully made known to deponent bedore signing

                                  S.S.Galiher