I'm going to post a random post once in a while on a random direct ancestor. I have some rather odd and interesting ones. The American genepool is a tad messy.One of my great great grandfathers...Name: Zachary B. Branch
Sex: M
Birth: Jan 1875
Death: 1930 in Pope County, Arkansas
Burial: Pigsah Cemetery, Atkins, Arkansas
Quoted from a cousin... Boyd (a relative) told of Zach living in the Bottoms of the Arkansas River. A drunk man came to the porch. He told him to leave... he kept trying to get in Zach's house. Zach shot him and then turned himself in for doing it. Excerpt from a newspaperOct. 17, 1912 - Will Hughes Shot
by Zack Branch
Will Hughes was shot by Zack Branch at the
latter's house near the Arkansas River, 5 miles southeast of Russellville,
yesterday morning at 2o'clock... Mr. Boyd said these Branches were not ones to
mess with as they would just 'shoot you'.
Went with my sister and my dad to see The Backyard Babies last night. Not bad at all! Zara's been a huge fan of Backyard for a while (understatement, about 4 years) and dad's still into his punk - he doesn't grow up!
Got to The Brook after about an hour and a half of driving and a few wrong turns, even with the satnav. Queued up for about ten minutes before the doors opened and we headed to the upstairs bar for beers and to watch the first band, Skintight Jaguars. They were pretty good, the audience just wasn't awake at that point sadly.
Next up, Crucified Barbara. Definitely a breath of fresh air, I haven't been so inspired or blown away by a band for about three years. Musically amazing and as weird as it seems, I've never seen a girl solo anywhere near the standards that I saw last night and the bassplayer showed up a lot of others with the walking fingers technique. Definitely checking this band out again.
The Backyard set passed in a blur, we were right by Dregen :-) They didn't play "A Song For The Outcast", but they did do "Fuck Off And Die", "Nomadic", "Minus Celsius" and "The Clash" :-)
