Deloris Branham: William Branham's Best-Kept Secret

Deloris Branham was William Branham’s sister, and her very existence (until she died in 2011) was a significant issue with the life story accounts used by William Branham’s stage persona. Though very few people in the Branham Tabernacle had ever seen Deloris, her obituary claimed that she was a lifelong member of the Branham Tabernacle as well as the Masonic Order of the Easter Star.

In William Branham’s fictional life story, Branham claimed to have been raised in the hills of Kentucky, trapping and fishing to support a widowed mother and nine siblings. Among those siblings Branham claimed to be “wallowing in the dust” was Deloris. Yet Deloris was born in Indiana in 1929, when William was age 20, according to the alternate 1909 birth year for that stage persona, and age 22, according to government documents. By 1929 when she was born, William Branham was already holding revivals with Roy E. Davis and Caleb A Ridley, both former high-ranking Klan members.

According to the 1940 Census, Deloris did briefly live with William after the death of his first wife, Hope. William and his son Billy Paul lived with Ella Branham while William toured the country holding healing revivals. Deloris was age 10 at the time.

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