First child of Thomas Bard Bransford and Anna Lee Snoddy.
Thomas L. Bransford, at that time a resident of Gainesboro in Jackson County, Tennessee, married Lucinda A. Settle on 29 Jan 1828, in Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky.
Enumerated in their Barren County household in 1850 were Thomas (age 44), Lucinda A (41), Elizabeth Marshall (16, m. A J McWhirter), John Sweeazy (14), Thomas Jr (10), William Amonett (7, died young) and Walter Lee (0) Bransford. By 1860 they had moved to Nashville, where 9-yr-old Willis (later William) Settle Bransford was also enumerated. Daughter Matilda (m. Russell Kinnaird) was their eldest.
Excerpted from W. W. Clayton's History of Davidson County, Tennessee:
While residing in Kentucky he was elected president of the Nashville and Cincinnati Railroad Company, and a delegate to the [last] Whig National Convention....
While a resident of Jackson Co., Tenn. [1825-1850], Col Bransford was a member of the Legislature; was elected elector in 1840, and again in 1844, on the Whig Presidential ticket; was the Whig candidate for Congress in 1843, and subsequently was nominated by the counties composing the congressional district for Governor of the State. On questions of the tariff, banking, etc., that formerly divided the Whig and Democratic parties, Col. Bransford was pronounced by President Polk to be the ablest debator he had heard in Tennessee; and President Johnson said of him that if the world had to be cut up into facts and figures, he would select Col. Bransford as the most capable of his acquaintances to perform that service.
Several sources assign to Mr. Bransford the military rank of Colonel but no documentation of service was found. Neither was documentation of death in Alabama.
Thomas L. Bransford, at that time a resident of Gainesboro in Jackson County, Tennessee, married Lucinda A. Settle on 29 Jan 1828, in Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky.
Enumerated in their Barren County household in 1850 were Thomas (age 44), Lucinda A (41), Elizabeth Marshall (16, m. A J McWhirter), John Sweeazy (14), Thomas Jr (10), William Amonett (7, died young) and Walter Lee (0) Bransford. By 1860 they had moved to Nashville, where 9-yr-old Willis (later William) Settle Bransford was also enumerated. Daughter Matilda (m. Russell Kinnaird) was their eldest.
Excerpted from W. W. Clayton's History of Davidson County, Tennessee:
While residing in Kentucky he was elected president of the Nashville and Cincinnati Railroad Company, and a delegate to the [last] Whig National Convention....
While a resident of Jackson Co., Tenn. [1825-1850], Col Bransford was a member of the Legislature; was elected elector in 1840, and again in 1844, on the Whig Presidential ticket; was the Whig candidate for Congress in 1843, and subsequently was nominated by the counties composing the congressional district for Governor of the State. On questions of the tariff, banking, etc., that formerly divided the Whig and Democratic parties, Col. Bransford was pronounced by President Polk to be the ablest debator he had heard in Tennessee; and President Johnson said of him that if the world had to be cut up into facts and figures, he would select Col. Bransford as the most capable of his acquaintances to perform that service.
Several sources assign to Mr. Bransford the military rank of Colonel but no documentation of service was found. Neither was documentation of death in Alabama.
First child of Thomas Bard Bransford and Anna Lee Snoddy.
Thomas L. Bransford, at that time a resident of Gainesboro in Jackson County, Tennessee, married Lucinda A. Settle on 29 Jan 1828, in Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky.
Enumerated in their Barren County household in 1850 were Thomas (age 44), Lucinda A (41), Elizabeth Marshall (16, m. A J McWhirter), John Sweeazy (14), Thomas Jr (10), William Amonett (7, died young) and Walter Lee (0) Bransford. By 1860 they had moved to Nashville, where 9-yr-old Willis (later William) Settle Bransford was also enumerated. Daughter Matilda (m. Russell Kinnaird) was their eldest.
Excerpted from W. W. Clayton's History of Davidson County, Tennessee:
While residing in Kentucky he was elected president of the Nashville and Cincinnati Railroad Company, and a delegate to the [last] Whig National Convention....
While a resident of Jackson Co., Tenn. [1825-1850], Col Bransford was a member of the Legislature; was elected elector in 1840, and again in 1844, on the Whig Presidential ticket; was the Whig candidate for Congress in 1843, and subsequently was nominated by the counties composing the congressional district for Governor of the State. On questions of the tariff, banking, etc., that formerly divided the Whig and Democratic parties, Col. Bransford was pronounced by President Polk to be the ablest debator he had heard in Tennessee; and President Johnson said of him that if the world had to be cut up into facts and figures, he would select Col. Bransford as the most capable of his acquaintances to perform that service.
Several sources assign to Mr. Bransford the military rank of Colonel but no documentation of service was found. Neither was documentation of death in Alabama.
Thomas L. Bransford, at that time a resident of Gainesboro in Jackson County, Tennessee, married Lucinda A. Settle on 29 Jan 1828, in Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky.
Enumerated in their Barren County household in 1850 were Thomas (age 44), Lucinda A (41), Elizabeth Marshall (16, m. A J McWhirter), John Sweeazy (14), Thomas Jr (10), William Amonett (7, died young) and Walter Lee (0) Bransford. By 1860 they had moved to Nashville, where 9-yr-old Willis (later William) Settle Bransford was also enumerated. Daughter Matilda (m. Russell Kinnaird) was their eldest.
Excerpted from W. W. Clayton's History of Davidson County, Tennessee:
While residing in Kentucky he was elected president of the Nashville and Cincinnati Railroad Company, and a delegate to the [last] Whig National Convention....
While a resident of Jackson Co., Tenn. [1825-1850], Col Bransford was a member of the Legislature; was elected elector in 1840, and again in 1844, on the Whig Presidential ticket; was the Whig candidate for Congress in 1843, and subsequently was nominated by the counties composing the congressional district for Governor of the State. On questions of the tariff, banking, etc., that formerly divided the Whig and Democratic parties, Col. Bransford was pronounced by President Polk to be the ablest debator he had heard in Tennessee; and President Johnson said of him that if the world had to be cut up into facts and figures, he would select Col. Bransford as the most capable of his acquaintances to perform that service.
Several sources assign to Mr. Bransford the military rank of Colonel but no documentation of service was found. Neither was documentation of death in Alabama.
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