One of Bratton’s neighbors was Theodore Mathius Brown , a fellow rancher who also served as the Spring Point Postmaster.
Texas livestock was pastured as far north as Montana with our young and eager learning ranch hand acquiring a wealth of practical experience.
Tom’s older brother John McCain Bratton had established a ranch northwest of Fort Macleod and he persuaded the younger Bratton to follow suit.
Tom filed on his homestead on the southeast quarter of Section 10 Township 9 Range 29 West of the 4th effective June 27, 1901.
A cattle shed measuring 26 by 85 feet too was valued at 50 dollars.
Family recollections compiled by their daughter Ruth tell that the Brattons also grazed cattle on the old Walrond Ranch, a corporate entity that dated back to 1883.
As was the case with his friend and neighbor Matt Brown, Bratton used his homestead records to establish his age when he was applying for his old age pension in 1954.
The couple had nine children, six of whom lived into adulthood and three who passed away as children.
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