My grandfather was Ira Keith Brannan, son of Ira Martin Brannan, grandson of Henry Brannan (b. 1811 in SC d. Jan. 22,1896 likely in Greene Co., MS). According to friend who is a descendant of Calderwood Mason, his son John Mason married Sarah Brannan, daughter of William Brannan and Anna Malone. It is his opinion that William Brannan and that my ancestor Henry Brannan were sons of a Thomas Brannan of SC.