Dickens County Biographies

Joe Brannen
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Service

  Captain in Civil War

Biography

Joseph (Joe) Brannen, moved from Hill county, TX. He was a native of Alabama, served as a Captain in the Confederate army, moving to Texas in 1866.

In 1867, he planted and harvested the first cotton crop ever grown in Cook County. This was his start toward a new life, following the confiscation, by the Federal Government of 1600 acres of land near Bullock, Alabama.

He bought, sold, traded and farmed land in Cook, Freestone, Gonzales, and Hill Counties.

He died in 1918, just before his 98th birthday.

(Written by Lucile McLaughlin)

Source: History of Dickens County; Ranches and Rolling Plains, Fred Arrington, ©1971

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McAdoo Cemetery
• Section A
• Row B
• Plot 24

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