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 20----Day of----June,1902,at near Royal,county of Winn
 State of La.before me,S.S.Galiher,a special examiner of the Bureau
 of Pensions,personally appeared J.C.Adams,who being by me first
 duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him
 during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension,
 deposes and says:I am 58 years of age farmer,residence near and
 post office address Royal,La. I had known Theophilus Branch for
 several years before the war and infact knew him farily well before
 he married.If this man was ever married after he came to this neighbor-
 hood and before he married Mary Dyess I had no knowledge of it.I think
 that he came from Mississippi to this neighborhood.I think that
 Theophilus Branch was not in the confederate service,but he was absent
 from the neighborhood awhile and if he was inthe federal service that
 must have been the time,although I did not know that he was in the
 union army but later heard he recived a pension.If I ever heard that
 the confederates took him up during the war I have forgotten it.I knew
 the claimant before she was married to Theophilus Branch,her name was
 Mary Dyess,and I am positive that she had not been married before she
 married Branch.Iknow that these people lived togather from their marriage
 until Branch died.I was not at thier marriage but I heard of it at the time
 I have my statement read and my answers have been correctly recorded.

                                                       J.C.Adams


Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20,day of June,1902 and I
certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before
signing
                                              S.S.Galiher