Contributed by Eugenia Hobday
Articles from the Courier Journal, Florence (9/29/99) and the Colbert County Reporter (1999) feature stories about Miss Lucille McBride,
daughter of Susie Florence Branscomb and granddaughter of James Washington Branscomb.
The Courier Journal reported that Bill Gotcher, son of Confederate Veterans and Betty Ford, United Daughters of the Confederacy, had
recently placed a cross of honor at the grave of J. W. Branscomb, 1840-1910, in Tuscumbia-Oakwood Cemetery. Lucille McBride had paid
for the marker to honor her grandfather who served honorably in the Confederate States Army.
Photo posted on Find A Grave by FAG by TIW (#47078048)
Note the spelling of Branscomb.
The Colbert County Reporter story was about Miss Lucille McBride receiving a membership certificate in the Real Granddaughters Club,
Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Miss Lucille joined on the war record of her grandfather, James Washington
Branscomb, Company K, 27th Reg't, Al. Infantry.
Maggie Lucille McBride lived on East Sixth Street in Tuscumbia
There are articles written by Lucille in the following:
"Olden Times of Colbert and Franklin Counties in Ala." 3 volumes written by Joyce Dawson Mitchell
Reference: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ALFRANKL/1998-06/0897544743
Wed, 10 Jun 1998
From Nancy R.: "3 books compiled by Joyce Dawson Mitchell. It is a collection of family histories, church histories, cemeteries, memories,
anything people wanted to submit.
Volume I is dated May 1991, 422 pages.
Volume II, November 1991, 343 pages
Table of Content:
EARLY HISTORY
Lucille McBride's Teaching Years
Early history on Schools by Lucille McBride
Volume III, May 1993, 329 pages
Here are online references from the TimesDaily online archives that mention Lucille:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19830310&id=H2IeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0cgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3217,1831193
Times Daily - Mar 10, 1983
Following the ritual led by Mrs. George Henderson, Miss Lucille McBride gave the national defense message which centered around the math
and science crisis ..........
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19870413&id=DWIeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5cgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4555,2602885
Times Daily - Apr 13, 1987
Lucille McBride read the president general's message and a report was given on national defense. DAR calendars and copies of the US
Constitution were................
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19920624&id=NlAeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YscEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1265,3335477
Times Daily - Jun 24, 1992
Has Photo of Lucille McBride. Colbert DAR. "As a member of the first class to graduate from Deshler High School In 1925, Lucille
McBride ......"
Lucille belonged to the Tuscumbia Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy.
