Death At Stockton Of A. Brandon

Amberson Brandon, a well-known former Merced county farmer, passed away in Stockton at 5 o’clock Sunday evening following an illness of several months resulting from paralysis.

The deceased was born in Jefferson county, Wisconsin, on August 31, 1845, and came across the plains to California, with his parents when he was but six years old, the family settling in El Dorado county. When eighteen years old he enlisted in the First California Regulars and served three years in a campaign against the Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, attaining the rank of sergeant. After his honorable discharge from the military service in 1866 he went to Amador county and engaged in teaming and also conducted a sawmill. In 1884 he came to Merced county and for a number of years was engaged in farming on an extensive scale in the vicinity of Le Grand.

He was an upright and honorable man who commanded the respect of all, and there are none who knew him but will regret his passing.

He was an upright and honorable man who commanded the respect of all, and there are none who knew him but will regret his passing.

Mr. Brandon was married in 1868 to Julia Misenheimer, and of the union eleven children were born, as follows: Susan, wife of J. T. Flanagan; Bernice, wife of E. T. Cunningham; Howard, Myron (deceased), Frances, wife of J. R. Baxter; Lloyd, Roger, Audley, Gladys, wife of Leslie Kahl; Rosco and Horace. He was a brother of Washington Brandon of Berkeley, Mrs. J. G. McClinton of Seattle, Mrs. Perry Hogg of Vancover, Mrs. Mattie Fuller of Petaluma, Frank Brandon of Stockton and M. D. Brandon of Latrobe.

The funeral was held in Stockton at 10 a. m., Wednesday, interment being made in the Rural cemetery at that place.
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Brandon–In Stockton, December 3, 1916, Amberson Brandon, a native of Wisconsin, aged 71 years, 3 months and 3 days.

~Merced Express, Saturday, December 9, 1916~
Transcribed by Alma Stone
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Amberson Brandon, formerly one of the large ranchers of the Le Grand vicinity, more recently a resident of Stockton, died yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock.

Mr. Brandon was a native of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, where he was born August 31, 1845. His earliest years, however, were spent on an Ohio farm. In 1851, at the age of six years, he crossed the plains for California when the family moved to El Dorado county, this state, to launch into the gold mining industry which was then at a feverish height.

When 18 years of age Mr. Brandon left the home in El Dorado to enlist with Company M, First California Regulars, and served three years in Arizona and New Mexico fighting the Indians. He was appointed sergeant and honorably discharged from service at Fort Seldom, N.M. in 1866. At the close of his military career he returned to California and turned his attention to teaming and conducting a sawmill in Amador county, and later in Merced and Stanislaus counties where he later began farming. He moved to Merced in 1884 first renting the land of the 3,900 acre ranch near Le Grand which he later purchased.

Mr. Brandon was married in 1868 to Julia Misenheimer, and of the union eleven children were born as follows: Susan wife of J. T. Flanagan; Bernice, wife of E. T. Cunningham; Howard; Myron (deceased); Frances, wife of J. R. Baxter; Lloyd; Roger; Audley; Gladys, wife of Leslie Kahl; Roscoe and Horace.

~ Stockton, December 1915