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- Mahalia Branham (1822 - 1912)
Mahalia Mosely Branham is buried in the old Cox Cemetery, Osborne's Gap, Dickenson County, Virginia. She was born on November 22, 1822 and died on December 2, 1912. According to local tradition, Mahalia was half-Cherokee and was living in a Cherokee camp when she caught the eye of a trader named John Branham. After a brief courtship, they married and settled in the Cumberland mountains where they raised 10 children: Adoline, Joseph, Richard, Tandy, Clifton, Betty, Sarah, Charity, Millie, and Polly.
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