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Branchide Family
Pearl Zoe Branchide, who married Elmer Fredrick Wesemann in 1940, was the only child of two widowed parents. These pages follow her mother’s Parrish family in the coal region, her father’s Branchides of Schuylkill County, the Davises of Mount Carmel, and the half-brothers and half-sisters joined only through Pearl.
The story in 5 pages
Start reading- 1Shenandoah, 1887 to 1905The Parrishes in Shenandoah, 1887 to 1905.
- 2The Branchides of Schuylkill CountyThe Branchides of Schuylkill County.
- 3The Davises of Mount Carmel and the Davis Years, 1905 to 1916The Davises of Mount Carmel, and Harriet’s years with David James Davis, 1905 to 1916.
- 4Mooseheart and the Branchide Household, 1916 to 1952The Davis children at Mooseheart, and the Branchide household, 1916 to 1952.
- 5Later LivesThe Davis children, and Pearl’s Branchide half-brothers and half-sister.