Thanks for the message. As far as I can determine the people you mentioned would not be connected to the Braniffs I am searching for. James Braniff and his wife Mary Jane McCashin Braniff came to western Pennsylvania from England (although their heritage was Iriish) in the early 1880s. They settled in either Fayette or Westmoreland Counties. I believe they eventually moved west, possibly to Idaho or Iowa.
Rosemarie