Personal life and death Branscomb married Margaret Vaughan, the daughter of a lawyer from Greenville, Texas, and the niece of a Vanderbilt alumna, in 1921 and they were married 71 years. They had three sons: Harvie, Ben and Lewis. They resided in Nashville, Tennessee. Branscomb played tennis and golf and raised gladioli and chrysanthemums. Branscomb died at age 103 on July 23, 1998, in Nashville. His funeral was held in Benton Chapel on the Vanderbilt campus, where his remains are interned in a vault along with his wife's. Bibliography The Message of Jesus (1925) Jesus and the Law of Moses (1930) The Teachings of Jesus (1931) The Gospel of Mark (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937) Google snippet Teaching With Books (1940) Purely Academic: An Autobiography (1978) References 1894 births 1998 deaths People from Huntsville, Alabama People from Nashville, Tennessee American centenarians Men centenarians American Rhodes Scholars Chancellors of Vanderbilt University Columbia University alumni Birmingham–Southern College alumni Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Southern Methodist University faculty Union Theological Seminary (New York City) alumni Presidents of the American Academy of Religion Duke Divinity School faculty