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BRANNON CEMETERY

Henry and Rosa Dove, my great grandparents, raised their six children in this house and lived there until they died. Rosa Dove Bent inherited this property from her parents, James Bent and Mary Mitchell Bent.
The Brannon Cemetery is located on top of the hill in the right-hand side of this picture. This house is now owned by the grandaughter of Henry and Rosa Dove and she maintains the Brannon Cemetery.

Pinkard Brannon and Eliza Gibson Brannon are the parents of Henry Brannon. They are my great-great grandparents and are the oldest persons buried in this cemetery. Eliza states on her gravestone that she belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church for 61 years.

This is the gravestone of Rosa Dove Bent born April 24, 1861 died January 24, 1936 and Henry Brannon b. August 15,1850, d. February 14, 1943. Rosa Dove was known to make her own paints for the watercolors she painted.

This is the gravestone of my grandmother, Josephine Wanstreet Brannon 1893-1975 and my mother, Rella Brannon Emrick 1916-1964.
I recently had the date of death 1975 for Josephine Brannon put on her gravestone.

Brannon Cemetery
1999

Ina Brannon Daughtery's (Rella Brannon's sister) ashes were buried here September 2, 1999. She lived in San Diego, California, from about 1946 until she died June 28, 1998. Her hobbies were growing roses and adopting cats. (See roses on her brass placque.) She had contracted to be buried at sea through the Neptune Society, but since she had not completed the form, her ashes were mailed to her brother, Bus Brannon, who mailed them to me. Otherwise, she would not be here beside her family, but in the Pacific Ocean as she wished. Had I still lived on the West Coast, I would have honored her wishes.

Stanley Brannon
s/o Henry Brannon and Rosa Dove Bent Brannon

February 16, 2002