Elijah was born on the old homestead farm. He was reared in the environment of pioneer life and was educated in the Princeton schools. He farmed and raised stock. He owned 530 acres in Bureau County.
Elijah Bryant, only living child of John II. Bryant, died very suddenly at the old family homestead, on the southern boundary of Princeton, about 7 o'clock last Saturday evening. Mr. Bryant had been a victim of rheumatism more or less during the oast winter, and was not in robust health, but he was around attending to business in a quiet way and had spent most of the afternoon in Princeton, passing from one store to another, doing his errands and chatting with friends. lie went home just before o o'clock and ate a light supper. An hour afterward, or about 7 o'clock, he and his father were in the sitting room alone. The old gentleman was sitting at the south windows reading when Elijah arose and began walking the room, saying that he felt had and hud a constricted feeling in his breast. He continued walking the floor ten or fifteen minutes and then laid down on a lounge in the northeast corner of the I room, while his father continued his reading. Elijah had been afI dieted with so many twinges, j pains and aches during the past two i mouths that no uneasiness or alarm was felt by his father at his expression of feeling badly nor at his pacing the room, lie had lain on the lounge but a few minutes and his father had just concluded that it was getting too dark to read when .Mrs. Elijah Bryant enj tered the room and stepping to the table j lighted a lamp. Leaving the table sh'" turned toward her husband on the lounge, and starting forward exclaimed, "Elijah is dying!'" They both sprang to his side and his father look his head in his arms. Elijah gasped two or three times and was dead. Ilis arms and hands lay in a natural position on his person; his feet were resting on the floor. He had uttered no sound; there had not been a perceptible movement of arms, hands limbs or person, lie had died as a tired man sinks into j peaceful slumber.
Bureau County Tribune, Volume 21, Number 50, 14 July 1893
THE BRYANT MONUMENT Massive, Symmetrical and Handsome. A monument that is massive and imposing, and pleasing to the eye because of its symmetrical proportions has recently been erected on the family burial lot of John II. Bryant, in Oakland cemetery, by A. C. Best. The monument is of Barre, Yt.. granite and the design is of the cottage style. With the exception of a polished panel on the die the monument has a hammer finish. The bottom base is seven feet and two inches square, and the total height is eighteen feet. On the lower base are two sub-bases, one of which bears the family name. Bryant, in heavy raised letters. On this "stands the die* said to be the heaviest stone ever brought to Princeton, and which weighs ten tons. This is lettered on four sides. On the west are the names of John H. Bryant, and his wife. Harriet Wiswall Bryant. On the south Elijah W. Bryant. and Laura 8. Bryant. On the north Henry W., a son of John H. and Harriett W. Bryant. On the east Sarah Snell Bryant. the widow of Dr. Peter Bryant, and the mother of William Cullen Bryant, author of "Thanatopsis," and .John HI. Bryant. Over the die is a cap with heavy mouldings, all in excellent proportions and of the highest workmanship. The total weight of this work is thirty tons, and it is with one exception the largest monument in Oakland cemetery. Mr. Best designed and erected this monument, and it is pronounced one of the most imposing and massive pieces of memorial work in our beautiful cemetery. and fully sustains the builder's reputation for doing the best and largest work in this part of the state.
Elijah Bryant, only living child of John II. Bryant, died very suddenly at the old family homestead, on the southern boundary of Princeton, about 7 o'clock last Saturday evening. Mr. Bryant had been a victim of rheumatism more or less during the oast winter, and was not in robust health, but he was around attending to business in a quiet way and had spent most of the afternoon in Princeton, passing from one store to another, doing his errands and chatting with friends. lie went home just before o o'clock and ate a light supper. An hour afterward, or about 7 o'clock, he and his father were in the sitting room alone. The old gentleman was sitting at the south windows reading when Elijah arose and began walking the room, saying that he felt had and hud a constricted feeling in his breast. He continued walking the floor ten or fifteen minutes and then laid down on a lounge in the northeast corner of the I room, while his father continued his reading. Elijah had been afI dieted with so many twinges, j pains and aches during the past two i mouths that no uneasiness or alarm was felt by his father at his expression of feeling badly nor at his pacing the room, lie had lain on the lounge but a few minutes and his father had just concluded that it was getting too dark to read when .Mrs. Elijah Bryant enj tered the room and stepping to the table j lighted a lamp. Leaving the table sh'" turned toward her husband on the lounge, and starting forward exclaimed, "Elijah is dying!'" They both sprang to his side and his father look his head in his arms. Elijah gasped two or three times and was dead. Ilis arms and hands lay in a natural position on his person; his feet were resting on the floor. He had uttered no sound; there had not been a perceptible movement of arms, hands limbs or person, lie had died as a tired man sinks into j peaceful slumber.
Bureau County Tribune, Volume 21, Number 50, 14 July 1893
THE BRYANT MONUMENT Massive, Symmetrical and Handsome. A monument that is massive and imposing, and pleasing to the eye because of its symmetrical proportions has recently been erected on the family burial lot of John II. Bryant, in Oakland cemetery, by A. C. Best. The monument is of Barre, Yt.. granite and the design is of the cottage style. With the exception of a polished panel on the die the monument has a hammer finish. The bottom base is seven feet and two inches square, and the total height is eighteen feet. On the lower base are two sub-bases, one of which bears the family name. Bryant, in heavy raised letters. On this "stands the die* said to be the heaviest stone ever brought to Princeton, and which weighs ten tons. This is lettered on four sides. On the west are the names of John H. Bryant, and his wife. Harriet Wiswall Bryant. On the south Elijah W. Bryant. and Laura 8. Bryant. On the north Henry W., a son of John H. and Harriett W. Bryant. On the east Sarah Snell Bryant. the widow of Dr. Peter Bryant, and the mother of William Cullen Bryant, author of "Thanatopsis," and .John HI. Bryant. Over the die is a cap with heavy mouldings, all in excellent proportions and of the highest workmanship. The total weight of this work is thirty tons, and it is with one exception the largest monument in Oakland cemetery. Mr. Best designed and erected this monument, and it is pronounced one of the most imposing and massive pieces of memorial work in our beautiful cemetery. and fully sustains the builder's reputation for doing the best and largest work in this part of the state.
Elijah was born on the old homestead farm. He was reared in the environment of pioneer life and was educated in the Princeton schools. He farmed and raised stock. He owned 530 acres in Bureau County.
Elijah Bryant, only living child of John II. Bryant, died very suddenly at the old family homestead, on the southern boundary of Princeton, about 7 o'clock last Saturday evening. Mr. Bryant had been a victim of rheumatism more or less during the oast winter, and was not in robust health, but he was around attending to business in a quiet way and had spent most of the afternoon in Princeton, passing from one store to another, doing his errands and chatting with friends. lie went home just before o o'clock and ate a light supper. An hour afterward, or about 7 o'clock, he and his father were in the sitting room alone. The old gentleman was sitting at the south windows reading when Elijah arose and began walking the room, saying that he felt had and hud a constricted feeling in his breast. He continued walking the floor ten or fifteen minutes and then laid down on a lounge in the northeast corner of the I room, while his father continued his reading. Elijah had been afI dieted with so many twinges, j pains and aches during the past two i mouths that no uneasiness or alarm was felt by his father at his expression of feeling badly nor at his pacing the room, lie had lain on the lounge but a few minutes and his father had just concluded that it was getting too dark to read when .Mrs. Elijah Bryant enj tered the room and stepping to the table j lighted a lamp. Leaving the table sh'" turned toward her husband on the lounge, and starting forward exclaimed, "Elijah is dying!'" They both sprang to his side and his father look his head in his arms. Elijah gasped two or three times and was dead. Ilis arms and hands lay in a natural position on his person; his feet were resting on the floor. He had uttered no sound; there had not been a perceptible movement of arms, hands limbs or person, lie had died as a tired man sinks into j peaceful slumber.
Bureau County Tribune, Volume 21, Number 50, 14 July 1893
THE BRYANT MONUMENT Massive, Symmetrical and Handsome. A monument that is massive and imposing, and pleasing to the eye because of its symmetrical proportions has recently been erected on the family burial lot of John II. Bryant, in Oakland cemetery, by A. C. Best. The monument is of Barre, Yt.. granite and the design is of the cottage style. With the exception of a polished panel on the die the monument has a hammer finish. The bottom base is seven feet and two inches square, and the total height is eighteen feet. On the lower base are two sub-bases, one of which bears the family name. Bryant, in heavy raised letters. On this "stands the die* said to be the heaviest stone ever brought to Princeton, and which weighs ten tons. This is lettered on four sides. On the west are the names of John H. Bryant, and his wife. Harriet Wiswall Bryant. On the south Elijah W. Bryant. and Laura 8. Bryant. On the north Henry W., a son of John H. and Harriett W. Bryant. On the east Sarah Snell Bryant. the widow of Dr. Peter Bryant, and the mother of William Cullen Bryant, author of "Thanatopsis," and .John HI. Bryant. Over the die is a cap with heavy mouldings, all in excellent proportions and of the highest workmanship. The total weight of this work is thirty tons, and it is with one exception the largest monument in Oakland cemetery. Mr. Best designed and erected this monument, and it is pronounced one of the most imposing and massive pieces of memorial work in our beautiful cemetery. and fully sustains the builder's reputation for doing the best and largest work in this part of the state.
Elijah Bryant, only living child of John II. Bryant, died very suddenly at the old family homestead, on the southern boundary of Princeton, about 7 o'clock last Saturday evening. Mr. Bryant had been a victim of rheumatism more or less during the oast winter, and was not in robust health, but he was around attending to business in a quiet way and had spent most of the afternoon in Princeton, passing from one store to another, doing his errands and chatting with friends. lie went home just before o o'clock and ate a light supper. An hour afterward, or about 7 o'clock, he and his father were in the sitting room alone. The old gentleman was sitting at the south windows reading when Elijah arose and began walking the room, saying that he felt had and hud a constricted feeling in his breast. He continued walking the floor ten or fifteen minutes and then laid down on a lounge in the northeast corner of the I room, while his father continued his reading. Elijah had been afI dieted with so many twinges, j pains and aches during the past two i mouths that no uneasiness or alarm was felt by his father at his expression of feeling badly nor at his pacing the room, lie had lain on the lounge but a few minutes and his father had just concluded that it was getting too dark to read when .Mrs. Elijah Bryant enj tered the room and stepping to the table j lighted a lamp. Leaving the table sh'" turned toward her husband on the lounge, and starting forward exclaimed, "Elijah is dying!'" They both sprang to his side and his father look his head in his arms. Elijah gasped two or three times and was dead. Ilis arms and hands lay in a natural position on his person; his feet were resting on the floor. He had uttered no sound; there had not been a perceptible movement of arms, hands limbs or person, lie had died as a tired man sinks into j peaceful slumber.
Bureau County Tribune, Volume 21, Number 50, 14 July 1893
THE BRYANT MONUMENT Massive, Symmetrical and Handsome. A monument that is massive and imposing, and pleasing to the eye because of its symmetrical proportions has recently been erected on the family burial lot of John II. Bryant, in Oakland cemetery, by A. C. Best. The monument is of Barre, Yt.. granite and the design is of the cottage style. With the exception of a polished panel on the die the monument has a hammer finish. The bottom base is seven feet and two inches square, and the total height is eighteen feet. On the lower base are two sub-bases, one of which bears the family name. Bryant, in heavy raised letters. On this "stands the die* said to be the heaviest stone ever brought to Princeton, and which weighs ten tons. This is lettered on four sides. On the west are the names of John H. Bryant, and his wife. Harriet Wiswall Bryant. On the south Elijah W. Bryant. and Laura 8. Bryant. On the north Henry W., a son of John H. and Harriett W. Bryant. On the east Sarah Snell Bryant. the widow of Dr. Peter Bryant, and the mother of William Cullen Bryant, author of "Thanatopsis," and .John HI. Bryant. Over the die is a cap with heavy mouldings, all in excellent proportions and of the highest workmanship. The total weight of this work is thirty tons, and it is with one exception the largest monument in Oakland cemetery. Mr. Best designed and erected this monument, and it is pronounced one of the most imposing and massive pieces of memorial work in our beautiful cemetery. and fully sustains the builder's reputation for doing the best and largest work in this part of the state.
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