Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Sheriff Branson was murdered because he defended the Emancipation Proclamation and the Bald Knobbers who sided with the Union. On Juneteeth, I remember my great, great grandpa Galby Branson and his support of freedom.

Eric Martin
Great, great gandson to the Honorable Galby Branson

June 18, 2024

Rest in peace Sheriff Branson. 133 years ago and never forgotten!

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2022

Rest In Peace my brother!

A fellow copper
St. Louis Police Department

February 8, 2022

I'm so proud to be his great grandson x3, Rest in peace Galby.
Don Bryant
Honolulu Hi
2021.

Don Bryant
Grandson x3

October 18, 2021

And it’s that time of year again when we say thank you for your service and sacrifice and that we’ll never forget. Rest in peace always.

Detective Cpl/3 Steven Rizzo
Delaware State Police (Retired)

July 4, 2021

No passage of time will ever erase your service and sacrifice.. Rest In Peace always.

Detective Cpl/3 Steven Rizzo
Delaware State Police (Retired)

July 4, 2020

Why were these brothers acquitted????

Judith Wright
Great great great niece

October 17, 2018

He's my great great great uncle! Mattie Knox is my great grandmother. She was his great niece!

Judith Wright Arbaugh
Descendent

May 25, 2016

Galba E. Branson is my 3X great grandfather. I am so pleased to see a tribute to him here.

Carla Barnett
3X great granddaughter

May 19, 2016

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”

Euripides

Marshal Chris Di Gerolamo
Federal Air Marshal Service

September 26, 2015

Time may have passed but you are not forgotten. I believe as long as someone remembers you or speaks your name, you are still with us.
Thank you for your heroism.
GOD Bless

Detention Officer A.Zambito
Texas

July 13, 2015

Your heroism and service is honored today, the one hundred and twenty-first anniversary of your death. Your memory lives and you continue to inspire. Thank you for your service. My cherished son Larry Lasater was a fellow police officer murdered in the line of duty on April 24, 2005 while serving as a Pittsburg, CA police officer.

Rest In Peace

Phyllis Loya

Phyllis Loya
mother of fallen officer Larry Lasater

July 4, 2010

Never forgotten.

Cpl/1 Steven Rizzo
Delaware State Police

July 4, 2007

I am so proud to be the great-great-great niece of Galby Branson. My great grandmother was his great niece, and I am so honored to know there is a hero in our family. I hope to visit Branson soon and pay respects to him.

July 14, 2005

Rest in peace, my brother. You are not forgotten.

DE
St. Louis City Police

July 10, 2005

I stop by this website often after the death of two dear friends with the NCSHP (Troopers Calvin Taylor E.O.W. October 3, 2001 and Anthony Cogdill E.O.W. May 30, 2003). Unfortunately, I had to add the name of another friend recently. Deputy Jeffery Hewitt, Buncombe County (NC) Sheriff’s Department, E.O.W. April 4, 2004.

I want to honor all of those who gave their life in the line of duty. Although your death was many many years ago, you are still a hero.

God Bless the men and women who continue to serve their communities in our great Nation.

...Gone, but never Forgotten....

Marti Ingle (EMT-Paramedic)
Haywood Co EMS (NC)

April 9, 2004