9th, went to S.S. & Church. Ate dinner at Sister Whites. Went to BYPU meeting. Miss Branham made us a talk.
Miss Branham “made us a talk” to the Utica Baptist Church once before on April 22, 1900. At that first visit, she spoke of her upcoming trip to Cuba, presumably as a missionary. While Miss Branham does not readily appear in the 1900 federal census, her widowed mother does. Anna Branham is living in Chillicothe, Missouri, with her three youngest kids, one grandbaby, and a lodger. Twenty-six year-old, Missouri-born Miss Addie L. Branham is a missionary, and maybe she missed out being counted on June 1st when the census taker visited her mother’s home. In September of 1902, a passenger list shows listed as a missionary arriving in New Orleans, Louisiana, after departing Cuba. It looks like she made multiple trips to Cuba. In 1908, she married James M. Mabry in Tampa, Florida, where she had two children and then died in 1969.
