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- Rochester Democrat Chronicle - 4/15/1930
Stark. Fla.. April 14-J. L.
Branch, produce buyer of Lockport,
N. Y was killed near Lake
Butler as his automobile left the
highway and turned over twice.
So was a member of the firm of
J. L. Branch & Son.
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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 4/12/1930
Funeral services for Jay L.
Branch. 69, former Niagara county
fruit and produce buyer, killed
Thursday night In an automobile
accident near Lake Butler, Florida,
will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday
afternoon at Starke, Fla... according
to a telegram received today by his
brother. William E. Branch of the
Hess road, town of Newfane The
body will not be brought here but
will be buried in Florida.
The telegram was sent by J.
Weldon Branch who was in business
with his father under the firm
name J L Branch and Son. They
had been in Starke several weeks
for the strawberry season.
A blowout in a tire was given by
the son as the cause of the accident
in which an automobile driven
by the elder'Branch went through
a wire fence and turned over
twice. Mr Branch wa,s alone in the
automobile and was killed almost
instantly, the telegram stated.
None of the relatives here will
attend the funeral because it would
be impossible for them to reach
Florida in time unless they traveled
by airplane
The telegram sent bv the son from
Starke. Fla . follows
While father driving in country
tire blew out. Car turned over twice.
he dying almost instantly He was
alone No eye witnesses Think best
to bury him here for present.
Funeral services Sunday afternoon
at 2 o'clock here
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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 4/11/1930
Jay L. Branch, 69 years old. well
known throughout Niagara county
as a fruit and produce buyer, was
killed last night near Lake Butler,
Fla- as bis automobile left the highway,
went through a wire fence and
turned over twice.
First news of the accident reached
Lockport at 10.30 o'clock last night,
when a long distance telephone
message came to the Hotel Kenmore.
The management of the
hotel was asked to notify relatives
and the Lockport lodge of Elks, of
which Mr. Branch was a member.
William E Branch of the Hess
road, town of Newfane, a brother,
was reached by telephone and came
here this morning to telegraph to
Weldcn Branch, a son of Jay
Branch, at Plant City, Fla., requesting
frrtner details. He said that
Lake Butler was about seventy miles
from Plant City, where his brother
had been spending the winter.
Jay Branch was born in Michigan
on November 18, 1860, but came to
Niagara county with his parents
when a small child. He was educated
In the Newfane district
schools. He entered the fruit and
produce buying business and moved
to this city, where he lived for many
years in Walnut street.
For the past several years he
spent the winters in Florida and
engaged in produce buying there
with his son, under the firm name
mt J. L. Branch and Son. He went
south again last autumn and when
last heard from by relatives here
was enjoying excellent health. For
several weeks he bad been in Starke,
Fla.. near Late Sutler, buying
strawberries.
Surviving Is one son. Weldon
Branch, of Plant City, Fla., one
brother, William E. Branch of Newfane,
and three sisters, Mrs. Viola
Demerest of Olcott. Mrs. Fred C.
Braucr of Buffalo, and Mrs. Hattie
D. Church of Olcott, who la now at
Miami, Fla.
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