The monument of Stephen Walker Branch and Lou Ida Branch, parents of Ouida Bergere Rathbone, shone in the sun April 19 at Oakland and Fraternal Historic Cemetery in Little Rock.

Ouida Bergere, the former Eula May Branch, returned to Little Rock to see her family in the 1910s and 1920s, and newspapers reported the progress of her career as a screenwriter.

Reading about Arkansans who lived 100 years ago, it's easy to forget how dead these people are. All of them are more and less long gone; but as I come across evidence of their lives in newspaper ...

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