[1] It is unclear when Rhoda and her surviving children relocated from Cass Station to Rockmart, then located primarily in Polk County, Georgia, where Fred began receiving his first exposure to public education in the so-called "field schools".
In 1889, the Piedmont Institute was established in Rockmart by the North Georgia Methodist Conference to provide more than an elementary education.
In April 1914, he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of R. C. Allen, who had earlier resigned as the judge of the Third Judicial District.
[1] While serving as chief justice, the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted to impeach Governor Henry Johnston on December 12, 1927.
[3] After leaving the Oklahoma Supreme Court, Branson moved to Texas, where he became very successful investing in oil leases that made him very wealthy.
Then, Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner appointed Fred as President of the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA), where he remained until 1959.
[1] He was a member of: Judge Branson died on October 5, 1960, in a Tulsa Hospital, after an illness that had lasted for a year.
His funeral service was conducted by Dr. Wilford Jones, minister of Saint Paul Methodist Church of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and interment was in the Branson mausoleum at Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Rome, Georgia.