Eliza Jane (Deroin) Brannan (1835 - 1920)

Born 16 Jun 1835 in Nemaha, Nebraska, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Nathaniel Hallick — married about 1855 in Nebraska, United States

Wife of Michael T. Brannan — married 8 Apr 1859 in Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Feb 1920 at age 84 in Auburn, Nemaha, Nebraska, United States

Biography

Eliza Jane (Deroin) Brannan was married to a man with the last name of Hallick before she married Michael. They homesteaded near what is now Tecumseh, Nebraska. Hallick had T. B. One child, Alfred E. Hallick, who was born on August 25, 1856. The baby lived less than a year. A Holiness preacher and his wife Mary Ann Taylor (one of her mother's sisters?) raised Eliza. She went by the name of Jane Taylor. There was never a church at St. DeRoin in those early years, but the 'Holiness' people used to have protracted meetings near the river where people shouted, danced and were slain in the spirit. She is buried at the Prairie Union Cemetery in Shubert, Nebraska. There is no tombstone for her, but it is assumed that she is buried next to Michael, as there is a blank space next to him

Sources

• First hand information.
• Deroin, Larry C. "Human History of the Indian Cave-St. Deroin" copy of which is in the possession of Kathy (Brannan) Wills
• "United States Census, 1870," dEliza S Brannon in household of M Brannon, Nebraska, United States; citing p. 2, family 9, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,330.
• "United States Census, 1880," Jane Brannan in household of Mike Brannan, St. Deroin, Nemaha, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district 208, sheet 168A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0752; FHL microfilm 1,254,752.
• "Nebraska, State Census, 1885," Eliza J Brannan in entry for M Brannan, 1885; citing NARA microfilm publication M352 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 499,573.
• "United States Census, 1900," Eliza J Brannan in household of Michael Brannan, Muddy Precinct Shubert & Stella villages, Richardson, Nebraska, United States; citing sheet 1B, family 25, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,938.
• "United States Census, 1920," Eliza J Brannan in household of Michael Brannan, Auburn, Nemaha, Nebraska, United States; citing sheet 25A, family 578, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,998.