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Subject: [BRANSON-L] books on Gentry/Worth Co & Valentine/Sealy BECK
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:13:34 -0700

I have found a historian/author/researcher of Gentry/Worth County off the
Carnegie Library page. She has written 4 books already and is about to
publish the 5th I believe. She said Bransons appear in 3 of her books.
I received the following interesting information from her:

Worth County was formed in 1861 from Gentry County

Valentine Branson appears in the 1850 Gentry census 65 years old with Sarah
age 45 and Isaac aged 14. Valentine died in 1855.

The 1860 census lists Isaac, Andrew, Jemima, Julia Ann, David, Joseph,
Hiram and Elijah.

Sarah SMITH married John Richmond. Her second husband was Valentine BRANSON.
Sarah was born in 1805 in Tennessee. Sarah died 1878 and is buried in the
Hoblet Cemetery, Denver, Worth county, Mo.

I am awaiting information as to the date of marriage between Sarah and
Valentine. It's obvious that the AIS Mortality information at ancestry.com
was incorrect.
I'm curious if anyone knows how Sealy BECK became known as Sealy "Sarah"
Beck. Was it perhaps because someone found Valentine in census living with
a "Sarah" and assumed it was Sealy instead of wife Sarah Smith?

Sharon

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