Fort Branch. For other uses, see Fort Branch (disambiguation). Fort Branch was a fort built by the Confederate Army especially to defend against attacks from the Union Army along the Roanoke River in North Carolina. The fort was originally built in 1862 along Rainbow Banks in Martin County, southeast of Hamilton, as a suitable location for defense of the Roanoke Valley.
Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan. On June 5, 2004, Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, died after having suffered from Alzheimer's disease for nearly a decade. His seven-day state funeral followed. After Reagan's death, his body was taken from his Bel Air, Los Angeles home to the Gates, Kingsley and Gates Funeral Home in Santa Monica, California to prepare the body for burial.
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, 94, dies from heart failure at her Bel Air home: Tributes flood in to actress, activist and icon. 1  Former First Lady died of congestive heart failure in Bel Air on Sunday - she was influential during her husband Ronald Reagan's presidency from 1981 to 1989.