Kalamazoo County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Branch, Thomas 
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Richard Branch mikalama@yahoo.com October 5, 2005, 5:51 pm

Cemetery:           Sand Lake Cemetery, Pavilion Township
Name:               Thomas Branch

Date Of Photograph: May 28, 2002
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Thomas Branch  Father  born May 6 1821; died Mar. 6 1877.  Thomas was born in
Kent, England and married Jane Burstow.  Thomas and Jane emmigrated to the town
of Canadice, Ontario County, New York, in 1846 where all their children except
Owen were born. Sometime after 1855 Thomas and his family moved to Portage
Township, Kalamazoo County, MI where they established a farm between Austin and
Long lakes.  Their children were: Alfred (buried in Sand Lake), Washington,
Mary, Alva (buried in Sand Lake), Franklin, Alice, and Owen (buried in Sand
Lake).  In 1871 Thomas and Jane sold a right-of-way through their farm along the
west side of Long Lake to the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad which would
connect Fort Wayne to Boyne Falls and eventually Mackinaw City, an important
means of transportation in Western Michigan for many years.


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