Branson from Branson Preface Today Branson, Missouri is a very popular place with a lot of entertainment options. My neighbor up here in Central Idaho took a train across Canada and then down to Branson on one of many potential travel options. He really enjoyed his stay in Branson but noted that the trip could have been more interesting if I wrote a book about some of the original Branson’s, particularly a namesake. The town is named after one of my grandfather’s brothers. There were nine boys in all, my grandfather being Jefferson Davis Branson (he went by Dave). I am being told the history by my father who got most of it from stories told around the campfire in the early 1900’s. My father, Joseph David Branson was born in 1890 and I was born in October of 1942 so he was 52 when I was born. He was almost 60 when he first started telling me the stories. I was born six days too late to enter elementary school in Boise, Idaho so I had to sit out another year.