Hardy was a son of Tarlton Bryant and Jane Henry. He married Lucinda "Cindy" Dillon in 1845.
The 1860 census listed James H. as age 43; wife Lucinda, 32; Martha, 17; Aaron, 13; Ananias, 11; Andrew, 8; Emaline, 5; William, 3; and Thomas, 3 1/2. Julia and Mary were born later. The handwritten "Andrew" may have actually been Addison (a reading error). There was a son William who married Susie Jones and moved to Texas. (The 1880 census listed a James Jr., but further documentation is unavailable.)
The 1850 census listed Nancy Lax, age 19, as living with Jame H. and Lucinda Bryant. Her identity is unknown, but she was probably a neice or other relative of Lucinda. Nancy Lax married Daniel Bayless Duncan, son of William Duncan and Elizabeth Bayless of the Bogard Community.
Hardy enrolled (listed as James Bryant, see document posted to the left) as a confederate soldier in December 1862, but deserted in June 1863. (One researcher speculates that he was still in East Tennessee at the time of desertion, not heavily engaged in war activity, and may have returned home for the birth of his daughter, Julie.)
Hardy and Cindy lived in the Upper English Creek Community, but he and his sons farmed on land owned by Tarlton Bryant in the Lower English Creek Community. The Bryants in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery and adjacent Click-Hannon Cemetery are their descendants.
[Many Byant descendants of my father's generation assumed that Hardy and Cindy were buried in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery in graves unmarked or marked with fieldstones, as many are. But several researchers had placed their burials in the Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery. On April 17, 2015, I searched the older abandoned family grave yard for evidence of unrecorded graves. I found a Freemasonry headstone for Hardy under thick underbrush and vines, partially hidden with soil and decaying vegetation. His name was not readable, but his birth and death dates were. Although in doesn't show up in the photos I took and posted on this page, a faintly visible Masonic emblen covers the top third of his stone. The symbol appears to be almost identical to image I have added under his stone on this page. This emblem is fairly common on headstones of the late 1800s --Gene Bryant (great-great grandson of Hardy Bryant]
(Also part of the Hardy Bryant household was Amon, a slave raised as a child. According to a story handed down through generations, a slave trader once offered Hardy $1,000 for Amon, who heard the offer and began crying. Hardy reportedly said he would not sell Amon for any amount of money. Amon was still a young man when the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (abolition of slavery) was ratified. Hardy told Amon he was free to leave. Amon remained in the Newport area working as a hired laborer. He kept in close contact with his Bryant relatives. Although unconfirmed, Amon possibly could be buried in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery.)
The 1860 census listed James H. as age 43; wife Lucinda, 32; Martha, 17; Aaron, 13; Ananias, 11; Andrew, 8; Emaline, 5; William, 3; and Thomas, 3 1/2. Julia and Mary were born later. The handwritten "Andrew" may have actually been Addison (a reading error). There was a son William who married Susie Jones and moved to Texas. (The 1880 census listed a James Jr., but further documentation is unavailable.)
The 1850 census listed Nancy Lax, age 19, as living with Jame H. and Lucinda Bryant. Her identity is unknown, but she was probably a neice or other relative of Lucinda. Nancy Lax married Daniel Bayless Duncan, son of William Duncan and Elizabeth Bayless of the Bogard Community.
Hardy enrolled (listed as James Bryant, see document posted to the left) as a confederate soldier in December 1862, but deserted in June 1863. (One researcher speculates that he was still in East Tennessee at the time of desertion, not heavily engaged in war activity, and may have returned home for the birth of his daughter, Julie.)
Hardy and Cindy lived in the Upper English Creek Community, but he and his sons farmed on land owned by Tarlton Bryant in the Lower English Creek Community. The Bryants in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery and adjacent Click-Hannon Cemetery are their descendants.
[Many Byant descendants of my father's generation assumed that Hardy and Cindy were buried in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery in graves unmarked or marked with fieldstones, as many are. But several researchers had placed their burials in the Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery. On April 17, 2015, I searched the older abandoned family grave yard for evidence of unrecorded graves. I found a Freemasonry headstone for Hardy under thick underbrush and vines, partially hidden with soil and decaying vegetation. His name was not readable, but his birth and death dates were. Although in doesn't show up in the photos I took and posted on this page, a faintly visible Masonic emblen covers the top third of his stone. The symbol appears to be almost identical to image I have added under his stone on this page. This emblem is fairly common on headstones of the late 1800s --Gene Bryant (great-great grandson of Hardy Bryant]
(Also part of the Hardy Bryant household was Amon, a slave raised as a child. According to a story handed down through generations, a slave trader once offered Hardy $1,000 for Amon, who heard the offer and began crying. Hardy reportedly said he would not sell Amon for any amount of money. Amon was still a young man when the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (abolition of slavery) was ratified. Hardy told Amon he was free to leave. Amon remained in the Newport area working as a hired laborer. He kept in close contact with his Bryant relatives. Although unconfirmed, Amon possibly could be buried in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery.)
Hardy was a son of Tarlton Bryant and Jane Henry. He married Lucinda "Cindy" Dillon in 1845.
The 1860 census listed James H. as age 43; wife Lucinda, 32; Martha, 17; Aaron, 13; Ananias, 11; Andrew, 8; Emaline, 5; William, 3; and Thomas, 3 1/2. Julia and Mary were born later. The handwritten "Andrew" may have actually been Addison (a reading error). There was a son William who married Susie Jones and moved to Texas. (The 1880 census listed a James Jr., but further documentation is unavailable.)
The 1850 census listed Nancy Lax, age 19, as living with Jame H. and Lucinda Bryant. Her identity is unknown, but she was probably a neice or other relative of Lucinda. Nancy Lax married Daniel Bayless Duncan, son of William Duncan and Elizabeth Bayless of the Bogard Community.
Hardy enrolled (listed as James Bryant, see document posted to the left) as a confederate soldier in December 1862, but deserted in June 1863. (One researcher speculates that he was still in East Tennessee at the time of desertion, not heavily engaged in war activity, and may have returned home for the birth of his daughter, Julie.)
Hardy and Cindy lived in the Upper English Creek Community, but he and his sons farmed on land owned by Tarlton Bryant in the Lower English Creek Community. The Bryants in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery and adjacent Click-Hannon Cemetery are their descendants.
[Many Byant descendants of my father's generation assumed that Hardy and Cindy were buried in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery in graves unmarked or marked with fieldstones, as many are. But several researchers had placed their burials in the Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery. On April 17, 2015, I searched the older abandoned family grave yard for evidence of unrecorded graves. I found a Freemasonry headstone for Hardy under thick underbrush and vines, partially hidden with soil and decaying vegetation. His name was not readable, but his birth and death dates were. Although in doesn't show up in the photos I took and posted on this page, a faintly visible Masonic emblen covers the top third of his stone. The symbol appears to be almost identical to image I have added under his stone on this page. This emblem is fairly common on headstones of the late 1800s --Gene Bryant (great-great grandson of Hardy Bryant]
(Also part of the Hardy Bryant household was Amon, a slave raised as a child. According to a story handed down through generations, a slave trader once offered Hardy $1,000 for Amon, who heard the offer and began crying. Hardy reportedly said he would not sell Amon for any amount of money. Amon was still a young man when the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (abolition of slavery) was ratified. Hardy told Amon he was free to leave. Amon remained in the Newport area working as a hired laborer. He kept in close contact with his Bryant relatives. Although unconfirmed, Amon possibly could be buried in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery.)
The 1860 census listed James H. as age 43; wife Lucinda, 32; Martha, 17; Aaron, 13; Ananias, 11; Andrew, 8; Emaline, 5; William, 3; and Thomas, 3 1/2. Julia and Mary were born later. The handwritten "Andrew" may have actually been Addison (a reading error). There was a son William who married Susie Jones and moved to Texas. (The 1880 census listed a James Jr., but further documentation is unavailable.)
The 1850 census listed Nancy Lax, age 19, as living with Jame H. and Lucinda Bryant. Her identity is unknown, but she was probably a neice or other relative of Lucinda. Nancy Lax married Daniel Bayless Duncan, son of William Duncan and Elizabeth Bayless of the Bogard Community.
Hardy enrolled (listed as James Bryant, see document posted to the left) as a confederate soldier in December 1862, but deserted in June 1863. (One researcher speculates that he was still in East Tennessee at the time of desertion, not heavily engaged in war activity, and may have returned home for the birth of his daughter, Julie.)
Hardy and Cindy lived in the Upper English Creek Community, but he and his sons farmed on land owned by Tarlton Bryant in the Lower English Creek Community. The Bryants in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery and adjacent Click-Hannon Cemetery are their descendants.
[Many Byant descendants of my father's generation assumed that Hardy and Cindy were buried in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery in graves unmarked or marked with fieldstones, as many are. But several researchers had placed their burials in the Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery. On April 17, 2015, I searched the older abandoned family grave yard for evidence of unrecorded graves. I found a Freemasonry headstone for Hardy under thick underbrush and vines, partially hidden with soil and decaying vegetation. His name was not readable, but his birth and death dates were. Although in doesn't show up in the photos I took and posted on this page, a faintly visible Masonic emblen covers the top third of his stone. The symbol appears to be almost identical to image I have added under his stone on this page. This emblem is fairly common on headstones of the late 1800s --Gene Bryant (great-great grandson of Hardy Bryant]
(Also part of the Hardy Bryant household was Amon, a slave raised as a child. According to a story handed down through generations, a slave trader once offered Hardy $1,000 for Amon, who heard the offer and began crying. Hardy reportedly said he would not sell Amon for any amount of money. Amon was still a young man when the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (abolition of slavery) was ratified. Hardy told Amon he was free to leave. Amon remained in the Newport area working as a hired laborer. He kept in close contact with his Bryant relatives. Although unconfirmed, Amon possibly could be buried in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery.)
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