History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. p. 264.   [Wallonia Precinct]

ED. BRANDON, firm of Brandon Brothers, proprietors of saw-mill, and
merchants, was born January 10, 1842, in Trigg County.  He is the fifth
child of a family of seven born to John L. and Eliza A. (Howell) Brandon;
the former was born October 22, 1810, in Halifax County, Va.  At about the
age of seventeen, he came with his parents to Trigg County, and is now
living with his sons.  Mrs. Eliza A. Brandon was born in North Carolina in
1809.  She died in May, 1874.  Our subject was brought up on his father's
farm; he followed farming till [sic] March, 1883, when he engaged in his
present business.  In the spring of 1879, he was appointed County Surveyor
and in August, 1879, he was elected to this office to fill an unexpired
term, and again re-elected in 1883.  He, with his brother, in 1879, bought
what was known as the Larkin's saw-mill and which they have since operated.
Mr. Brandon was married, June 4, 1863, to Louisa A. Larkins.  She was born
in Trigg County and is a daughter of William Larkins who died September,
1875, aged seventy-six.

Brandon Howell Larkins
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Halifax-VA NC

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