than him and already had a 5-year-old daughter. Baylor left him shortly afterwards when Branch refused to join her in following the teachings of Alonzo T. Jones. Branch moved to Watts, California as a preacher before the SDA church approved a pension to allow him to retire. The church leadership had recently become dominated by the East Pennsylvania Conference and it was only reluctantly that they granted Branch his pension. In retirement Branch lived with Mabel's family in Los Angeles where he died on November 24, 1924. References 1856 births 1924 deaths African-American missionaries American Seventh-day Adventist missionaries People from Jefferson County, Missouri Seventh-day Adventist missionaries in Malawi 20th-century African-American people