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Source: Marriage License from the Clerk of the Court, Recording Department, Green Cove Springs, Florida. Book H-2 page 94.
From Richard S. Levine on 1/1/2015: Reid worked from about 1910 to 1918 in the Phosphate industry in Polk County, and then he and Annabelle moved to Safety Harbor, FL. Annabelle was a teacher and principal. Mary K. Endicott Branning was also a teacher. Like the Canova family, the Branning family was here in Florida fairly early. Reid’s great-great-grandfather came to America from Ireland around the time of the Revolutionary War. In the 1800’s they came by oxcart to Florida and settled in Green Cove Springs. Reid’s father, George Washington Branning, Jr., served in the Civil War and was captured by Union soldiers. He escaped as the firing squad was preparing to execute him. Mary K. Endicott’s family goes back to John Endicott, one of the first governors of Massachusetts, as well as Thorton Neale, uncle of Stonewall Jackson. You can also see my Rolander-Branning family tree on Ancestry.com. I have a photo of Mary Endicott and Irene Canova Branning there that I got from newspaper clippings in the Google news archive.
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