Branch, Ss
Branch, S.S.
a Free-will Baptist minister, was born in Vermont, January 27, 1803. In 1820 he emigrated to Ohio, where he was converted in 1831. He was ordained in 1841, and for several years preached in the town and neighborhood in which he had his residence. In 1853 he removed to Illinois, and gathered a Church in Jeffersonville in June 1854. He died in Wayne County, Illinois, January 29, 1863. See Free-will Baptist Register, 1863, page 91. (J.C.S.)