History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 944, Woodland Township
Charles R. Branson, farmer, sec. 10; P. O., Summum; is a native
of Jefferson Co., O., where he was born Jan. 13, 1836; in 1839 he
settled in Fulton Co., where our subject passed his childhood and grew
to manhood. In Aug., 1862, he enlisted in Co. H, 85th Ill. Inf., and
participated in the more noted battles of the Rebellion. In 1865 he was
united in marriage to Miss Martha Rankin, a daughter of Wm. Rankin.
There were born of this marriage 2 children, 1 living.
