The Ancestry Post

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 newspaper

Oct. 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'.