Will/Braffitt/Johnson/Cook genealogy - Person Sheet
Will/Braffitt/Johnson/Cook genealogy - Person Sheet
NameMark Pomeroy Braffet 
Birth12 Apr 1870, Brooklyn, Lee, IL1
Death2 Jan 1927, Price, Carbon, UT1
Burial4 Jan 1927, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT1
FatherJames Harvey Braffet (1834-1899)
MotherEllen Savilla Billings (1841-1920)
Misc. Notes
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT1,213, Mark P. Braffet, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153171
!CENSUS: 25-Jan-1870 Brooklyn, Lee, IL, 39/39, Mark Braffit
!CENSUS: 1880 Paw Paw Grove, Lee, IL143, Mark M.
!OCCUPATION: Telegrapher, mine superintendent, attorney
!REFERENCE: 1893, http://www.carbon-utgenweb.com/1930b.html, "On March 15, 1893, a petition carrying one hundred names asking for town government, was filed and recorded in the county recorder's office at Castle Dale, Emery County. (The county of Carbon was not organized at that time.) When the petition was granted the following March, a Town Board was elected, A. H. Earll became the first President, with Messrs. Kimball, Wright, Lewis, and Krebs as trustees. M.P. Braffet was appointed town Clerk and Thomas Lloyd, town Marshall."
!RESIDENCE: 1899 Price, Carbon, UT145
!REFERENCE: 1899 obituary for father Dr. James H. Braffet145, Mark P. Braffet
!REFERENCE:http://history.utah.gov/FindAids/C00322/c0322.html, "The Cartoons and Caricatures of Men in Utah Collection, 1906"
!REFERENCE: 1907, In 1907, a Mark Braffett owns a saloon with T. A. Aubrey at 525 Main Street, Columbia, Esmeralda, NV - also see Mark Braffett born 1861, https://web.archive.org/web/20050830135812/http://...ess/columbia1907.txt
!REFERENCE: 28-Sep-1907 Emery County Progress, " Maxwell was arrested and got out of town in a hurry to prevent a lynching bee(?). He was later brought before a justice and liberated on a $5000 bond. His sureties are Mark Braffitt and Chub Milburn."
!REFERENCE: 1915 Prominent Men & Pioneers of Utah, Mark P. Braffet
!REFERENCE: 27-Mar-1924 Washington Post, " Equity Suits No. 42382. Mark P. Braffet vs. Hubert Work, etc.; injunction. Attys., H. R. Harriman --- ?, Burke.
!DEATH: Price, Carbon, UT death certificate #2700498 for Mark Pomeroy Braffet
!DEATH: 07-Jan-1927 obituary for Mark Pomeroy Braffet262
!REFERENCE: The Braffet referenced in this 1928 Supreme Coutry case is probably Mark Pomery Braffet based on this opening note - "Respondent's intestate brought suit in the Supreme Court", http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/us/vol/276, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?c...ol=276&invol=560
!REFERENCE: Carbon, UT histories261
!REFERENCE: 08-Dec-1938 obituary for Hannah Johnson Braffet263
!REFERENCE: Los Angeles, CA death certificate #58-068904 for son Robert Ingersol Braffet
!REFERENCE: 1960s notes of phone conversation between Mrs. Robert Ingersol Braffet and L. Vadeima G. Whitley
!REFERENCE: 1978 National Register of Historic Places, Utah SP Price Tavern/Braffet Block, #78002653, East 100 South and Carbon Avenue", https://catalog.archives.gov/id/72000934, http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/UT/carbon/state.html
!REFERENCE: 1997 Men of Affairs in the State of Utah, Mark P. Braffet, https://books.google.com/books?id=aEFOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP396
!REFERENCE: 15-Apr-2005 email from Richard E. Johnston <rjohnston@dot.state.nv.us> to Don Braffitt, "For a number of years I have been researching the Utah outlaw best known by the alias C.L. "Gunplay" Maxwell (1867-1909). From the mid 1890's till his death in 190, Maxwell was friend, bodyguard, and business associate of Mark Pomeroy Braffet. In fact, following Maxwell's death, Mark Braffet was the only non-family member to attend his burial. I have been trying to trace down Mark Braffet's relatives to see if any of them have any material relating to C.L. Maxwell. Do you know if any of Mark's papers relating to his law and businesses have survived the past 100 years and might be lurking out there somewhere?"
!REFERENCE: Feb-2007 emails and GEDCOM from great-great granddaughter Terreah Snow to Don Braffitt264
!REFERENCE:http://www.nara.gov/alic/journals/qcomp/jlclustr.html, Taniguchi, Nancy J. No Proper Job for a Stranger: The Political Reign of Mark Braffet. Utah Historical Quarterly 58, no.2 (Spring 1990): 145-164. RG060
!REFERENCE: 2001, https://web.archive.org/web/20020818222952/http://...es/puuhqindex3s.html, Scofield, Utah, disaster and relief efforts at, 50: 241-42, 243; influence of M. Braffet in, 58: 146-47, 152; Shores, Cyrus "Doc," and M. Braffet, 58: 147, 147-48, 161, 163-64
!REFERENCE:http://www.genexchange.org/historyreg2.cfm?state=ut&ID=199#Start
!REFERENCE:http://www.brownspark.com/maxwell.html
!REFERENCE: 2003, https://web.archive.org/web/20031207173710/http://...rams/uhqindex3c.html, "Citizens party, anti-Braffet alliance in Carbon County, 58: 160"
!REFERENCE:http://cdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISORO...;CISOBOX=1&REC=3, "A baby dressed in a swath of lace, tied at the shoulder with a ribbon, being supported by a covered arm. Mark P. Braffet was Carbon County Attorney, friend of outlaw C. C. Maxwell from Richard Johnston"
!CENSUS: 25-Jan-1870 Brooklyn, Lee, IL, 39/39, Mark Braffit
!CENSUS: 1880 Paw Paw Grove, Lee, IL143, Mark M.
!OCCUPATION: Telegrapher, mine superintendent, attorney
!REFERENCE: 1893, http://www.carbon-utgenweb.com/1930b.html, "On March 15, 1893, a petition carrying one hundred names asking for town government, was filed and recorded in the county recorder's office at Castle Dale, Emery County. (The county of Carbon was not organized at that time.) When the petition was granted the following March, a Town Board was elected, A. H. Earll became the first President, with Messrs. Kimball, Wright, Lewis, and Krebs as trustees. M.P. Braffet was appointed town Clerk and Thomas Lloyd, town Marshall."
!RESIDENCE: 1899 Price, Carbon, UT145
!REFERENCE: 1899 obituary for father Dr. James H. Braffet145, Mark P. Braffet
!REFERENCE:http://history.utah.gov/FindAids/C00322/c0322.html, "The Cartoons and Caricatures of Men in Utah Collection, 1906"
!REFERENCE: 1907, In 1907, a Mark Braffett owns a saloon with T. A. Aubrey at 525 Main Street, Columbia, Esmeralda, NV - also see Mark Braffett born 1861, https://web.archive.org/web/20050830135812/http://...ess/columbia1907.txt
!REFERENCE: 28-Sep-1907 Emery County Progress, " Maxwell was arrested and got out of town in a hurry to prevent a lynching bee(?). He was later brought before a justice and liberated on a $5000 bond. His sureties are Mark Braffitt and Chub Milburn."
!REFERENCE: 1915 Prominent Men & Pioneers of Utah, Mark P. Braffet
!REFERENCE: 27-Mar-1924 Washington Post, " Equity Suits No. 42382. Mark P. Braffet vs. Hubert Work, etc.; injunction. Attys., H. R. Harriman --- ?, Burke.
!DEATH: Price, Carbon, UT death certificate #2700498 for Mark Pomeroy Braffet
!DEATH: 07-Jan-1927 obituary for Mark Pomeroy Braffet262
!REFERENCE: The Braffet referenced in this 1928 Supreme Coutry case is probably Mark Pomery Braffet based on this opening note - "Respondent's intestate brought suit in the Supreme Court", http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/us/vol/276, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?c...ol=276&invol=560
!REFERENCE: Carbon, UT histories261
!REFERENCE: 08-Dec-1938 obituary for Hannah Johnson Braffet263
!REFERENCE: Los Angeles, CA death certificate #58-068904 for son Robert Ingersol Braffet
!REFERENCE: 1960s notes of phone conversation between Mrs. Robert Ingersol Braffet and L. Vadeima G. Whitley
!REFERENCE: 1978 National Register of Historic Places, Utah SP Price Tavern/Braffet Block, #78002653, East 100 South and Carbon Avenue", https://catalog.archives.gov/id/72000934, http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/UT/carbon/state.html
!REFERENCE: 1997 Men of Affairs in the State of Utah, Mark P. Braffet, https://books.google.com/books?id=aEFOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP396
!REFERENCE: 15-Apr-2005 email from Richard E. Johnston <rjohnston@dot.state.nv.us> to Don Braffitt, "For a number of years I have been researching the Utah outlaw best known by the alias C.L. "Gunplay" Maxwell (1867-1909). From the mid 1890's till his death in 190, Maxwell was friend, bodyguard, and business associate of Mark Pomeroy Braffet. In fact, following Maxwell's death, Mark Braffet was the only non-family member to attend his burial. I have been trying to trace down Mark Braffet's relatives to see if any of them have any material relating to C.L. Maxwell. Do you know if any of Mark's papers relating to his law and businesses have survived the past 100 years and might be lurking out there somewhere?"
!REFERENCE: Feb-2007 emails and GEDCOM from great-great granddaughter Terreah Snow to Don Braffitt264
!REFERENCE:http://www.nara.gov/alic/journals/qcomp/jlclustr.html, Taniguchi, Nancy J. No Proper Job for a Stranger: The Political Reign of Mark Braffet. Utah Historical Quarterly 58, no.2 (Spring 1990): 145-164. RG060
!REFERENCE: 2001, https://web.archive.org/web/20020818222952/http://...es/puuhqindex3s.html, Scofield, Utah, disaster and relief efforts at, 50: 241-42, 243; influence of M. Braffet in, 58: 146-47, 152; Shores, Cyrus "Doc," and M. Braffet, 58: 147, 147-48, 161, 163-64
!REFERENCE:http://www.genexchange.org/historyreg2.cfm?state=ut&ID=199#Start
!REFERENCE:http://www.brownspark.com/maxwell.html
!REFERENCE: 2003, https://web.archive.org/web/20031207173710/http://...rams/uhqindex3c.html, "Citizens party, anti-Braffet alliance in Carbon County, 58: 160"
!REFERENCE:http://cdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISORO...;CISOBOX=1&REC=3, "A baby dressed in a swath of lace, tied at the shoulder with a ribbon, being supported by a covered arm. Mark P. Braffet was Carbon County Attorney, friend of outlaw C. C. Maxwell from Richard Johnston"
Spouses
Misc. Notes
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT1,213, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153145
!RESIDENCE: 1893 Spanish Fork, UT261
!CENSUS: 02-Apr-1930 415 Euclid Avenue, Oakland, Alameda, CA, 5/8, Hannah Braffet, widowed, born Norway
!DEATH: 08-Dec-1938 obituary for Hannah Johnson Braffet263, daughter of Einar Johnson, survivors include brother Nick W. Johnson of Ogden, UT, sister Mrs. Augusta Thorstinson of Spanish Fork, UT, sister Mrs. Alice Tipton of Los Angeles, CA, and a grandson
!REFERENCE: Carbon, UT histories261
!REFERENCE: Price, Carbon, UT death certificate #2700498 for husband Mark Pomeroy Braffet; Prominent Men & Pioneers of Utah, 1915; Los Angeles, CA death certificate #58-068904 for son Robert Ingersol Braffet; Research done by L. Vadeima Gifford Whitley
!REFERENCE: 1997 Men of Affairs in the State of Utah, Hannah Johnson in story on Mark P. Braffet, https://books.google.com/books?id=aEFOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP396
!REFERENCE: Feb-2007 emails and GEDCOM from great-great granddaughter Terreah Snow to Don Braffitt264
!REFERENCE:http://cdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISORO...;CISOBOX=1&REC=3, Mrs. M. P. Braffet, "A baby dressed in a swath of lace, tied at the shoulder with a ribbon, being supported by a covered arm. Mark P. Braffet was Carbon County Attorney, friend of outlaw C. C. Maxwell from Richard Johnston"
!RESIDENCE: 1893 Spanish Fork, UT261
!CENSUS: 02-Apr-1930 415 Euclid Avenue, Oakland, Alameda, CA, 5/8, Hannah Braffet, widowed, born Norway
!DEATH: 08-Dec-1938 obituary for Hannah Johnson Braffet263, daughter of Einar Johnson, survivors include brother Nick W. Johnson of Ogden, UT, sister Mrs. Augusta Thorstinson of Spanish Fork, UT, sister Mrs. Alice Tipton of Los Angeles, CA, and a grandson
!REFERENCE: Carbon, UT histories261
!REFERENCE: Price, Carbon, UT death certificate #2700498 for husband Mark Pomeroy Braffet; Prominent Men & Pioneers of Utah, 1915; Los Angeles, CA death certificate #58-068904 for son Robert Ingersol Braffet; Research done by L. Vadeima Gifford Whitley
!REFERENCE: 1997 Men of Affairs in the State of Utah, Hannah Johnson in story on Mark P. Braffet, https://books.google.com/books?id=aEFOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP396
!REFERENCE: Feb-2007 emails and GEDCOM from great-great granddaughter Terreah Snow to Don Braffitt264
!REFERENCE:http://cdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISORO...;CISOBOX=1&REC=3, Mrs. M. P. Braffet, "A baby dressed in a swath of lace, tied at the shoulder with a ribbon, being supported by a covered arm. Mark P. Braffet was Carbon County Attorney, friend of outlaw C. C. Maxwell from Richard Johnston"
Marriage1893
ChildrenRobert Ingersol (1893-1958)
Maude Virginia (1895-1983)
James Harvey (1897-1969)
Zaida (1903-1907)