My John Brandon b abt 1804 in VA, married Eliz Henson b 1811 Roane Co TN, in 1832 Roane Co. They had two children before moving westward, and their travels took them through Alabama, and probably briefly in Texas, before settling in Missouri abt 1850. Last time I can find the parents is in 1868 Missouri state census records. Descendants were in Ark and OK, and mostly settled in Texas by 1870s.

I am looking for parents and lineage of THIS John Brandon, and information about their lives, families, business, clubs, churches, kids, etc and why they moved. I do not have any death information or records. Family lore says they came to Texas with sons and are buried here, but they were not documented anywhere in Texas, not even near sons in 1872 when John Adam Brandon was married to Emma Robinson at Fort Houston area.

So- I am going back to what I know and researching any mentions of Brandons in Roane County, about the same times and places. Here is a bit of what I found. I hope it helps your research.

p. 387, James Waddell, D.D., and the churches in the Northern Neck,, Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical. by William Henry Foote (1850)
in re to Mary Brandon of Prince George Co, Virginia
"...An affectionate tribute to the worth of the wife of Dr. Waddell will close this sketch.
"December 11th, 1848."
"Dear Sir:—Our mother was the daughter of Colonel James Gordon of Lancaster county, Virginia, and called after her mother, Mary. Her mother was Mary Harrison, daughter of Nathaniel Harrison, of Surry, whose ancestor, as of the large connexion of that name in Virginia, was Benjamin Harrison, of Surry, who died in 1712, and whose tombstone may be seen with its inscriptions at Cabin-Point, of that county. The Harrisons have been distinguished by the terms Berkeley and Brandon, two family seats on James River, the first in Charles City and the other in Prince George. Our mother was of the Brandon descent. She was born in 1752; married when sixteen years of age; was the mother of ten children; and died in 1813, at Staunton." (it continues.)

p. 349, Thyatira and her ministers., Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers. by William Henry Foote (1846)
THE settlements which composed the congregation of Thyatira in Rowan county, were made about the time those on the Catawba began to cluster together. But of the various missionaries that visited the Presbyterian families between the Yadkin and Catawba, sent from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the memoranda or journal of but one has yet been found, that of Hugh McAden.

"...He crossed the Yadkin on Tuesday, Sept. 12th, 1755, after having spent some days in the congregation at the Ford, making his home part of the time at the house of a Mr. Henry Sloan; and passing on about ten miles, tarried with a Mr. James Aleson; and the next day, passing on three or four miles, he tarried with a Mr. Brandon, a countryman of his. On Sabbath, the 14th, he says he rode to the meeting-house and preached, but does not tell the name of the house or its location..."


Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers. by William Henry Foote (1846)
"...HUGH M'ADEN.
Mr. Wright's congregation, I hear, there is a considerable appearance of the power of God."
On Wednesday, 23d of July, he left Mr. Henry's, rode ten miles, and preached at a Mr. Cardwall's, in Halifax county, and passed on that night to Ephraim Hill's, five miles. The country was then thinly settled, and the people appeared to Mr. McAden as sheep without a shepherd. On the next day rode twenty miles to Capt. Moore's, on Dan River, where he remained and preached the Sabbath, July 27th. On Tuesday he left Capt. Moore's, proceeded five miles up the Dan, crossed over, and preached at Mr. Brandon's; and on the same evening, riding twelve miles, came to Solomon Debow's on Hico, an emigrant from Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Here he remained, and preached the first Sabbath of August. "Having now got within the limits prescribed me by the Presbytery, I was resolved not to be so anxious about getting along in my journey, but take some more time to labor among the people, if so be the Lord might bless it to the advantage of any..."