Nancy "Nannie" Brannon was born May, 1842 in Kentucky.  Her maiden name is not known, but her father was born in South Carolina and her mother in Missouri.  She had two children, John S. and a daughter, about which nothing more is known.  Nannie was a practical nurse, who assisted Dr. Wm. M. Strozier.  She was of pioneer parents, and as a child, lived through Indian raids.  Her daughter-in-law, Carrie, taught her to read.  She was very bright and witty, and filled with love for humanity.  She died in Brownwood, where she lived with her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, Edith Brannon.  There were two other Brannon granddaughters, Thelma and Lucille.

     Nannie's son, John S., was born September, 1868, in Texas, married Carrie M. Williams about 1893.  Nannie lived with them in Coleman County in 1900.  Carrie was born March 1873, in Texas.  Her father was born in Tennessee and her mother in Texas.  Her father owned the Williams Ranch near Mullin in Mills County.  When Carrie was a small girl, she and some other children were playing on a ledge beneath a high bluff; they heard a great commotion on top of the hill above them.  Real cowboys were fighting real Indians.  Finally the Indians were bested and they turned to flee, the cowboys in hot pursuit.  The Indians were chased across the country to the Santa Anna Gap, and disappeared.  That was the last Indian raid in this territory.