The Montgomery Advertiser, AL, Tuesday, May 22, 1934, pg. 9, cols. 3-4

Yancey L. Bryan

  BRUNDIDGE, ALA., MAY 21.,---(Special)---Yancey L. Bryan, 88, died last night at his home here after a short illness. The funeral will be held from the home at 4:30 p.m. today, with Elder B. J. Wilson, of Glenwood, Ala., officiating. Burial will be at the Brundidge Cemetery, with Rhodes, of Troy, in charge. The grandsons of Mr. Bryan will be the active pallbearers. Surviving are four sons, Dr. J. L. Bryan, of Greenville, Ala.; J. H. Bryan, of Lubbock, Texas; W. S. Bryan, of Tifton, Ga., and Albert Bryan, of Sampson, Ala.; nine daughters, Mrs. Maude Reddock, Mrs. Len Helms, Miss Lela Bryan, Miss Claude Bryan, all of Brundidge; Mrs. George Dinkins, Mrs. Jack Terrell, and Mrs. Warsaw Carslile, all of Montgomery; Mrs. W. F. Preston, of Donaldsville, Ga.; and Mrs. Grady Tucker, of Camelton, Fla.; one brother, Lorenza Bryan, of Andalusia; and one sister, Mrs. John Sanders, of Palmyra, Ala.

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The Montgomery Advertiser, AL, Wednesday, May 23, 1934, pg. 11, col. 4

YANCY L. BRYAN

  TROY, ALA., May 22.---(Special)---The funeral of Yancy L. Bryan, 88, who died Monday at 9:30 p.m., was held from the home in Brundidge Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., with Elder B. J. Wilson, of Glenwood, officiating. Burial was in the Brundidge cemetery, with Rhodes in charge. Surviving are: four sons, nine daughters, a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. John Sanders, of Palmyra, who was 96 years old May 2, and one brother, Lorenza Bryan, of Andalusia.

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The Greenville Advocate, AL, Friday, May 25, 1934, pg. 1, col. 3

YANCEY L. BRYAN DIES AT HOME IN BRUNDIDGE

  Dr. J. L. Bryan has the sympathy of many friends in the loss of his father, Yancy L. Bryan, 88, of Brundidge.

  Mr. Bryan died Monday night at his home there. Funeral services were held Tuesday with Rev. B. J. Wilson officiating. The grandsons of Mr. Bryan were active pallbearers.

  Mr. Bryan was one of the leading citizens of Pike County, and was prominent in the religious life of his community. He will be sadly missed.

  Surviving are four sons, Dr. J. L. Bryan, of Greenville, Ala; J. H. Bryan, of Lubbock, Texas; W. S. Bryon, of Tiifton, Ga.; and Albert Byron, of Sampson, Ala.; nine daughters, Mrs. Maude Reddock, Mrs. Len Helms, Miss Lela Bryan, Miss Claude Bryan, all of Brundidge; Mrs. George Dinkins, Mrs. Jack Terrell, and Mrs. Warsaw Carslile, all of Montgomery; Mrs. W. F. Preston of Donaldsville, Ga.; and Mrs. Grady Tucker, of Camelton, Fla.; one brother, Lorenzo Bryan, of Andalusia, and one sister, Mrs. John Sanders of Palmyra, Ala.

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Memorial Record of Alabama, by Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery. Vol. II, Personal Memoirs-Pike County, pages 823, 824

YANCEY L. BRYAN, planter of Grimes, beat, No 8, was born near Troy on the Ozark road in 1846. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Gibson) Bryan, natives of Sumter district, S. C., who received an ordinary education and married there at an early day, possibly prior to the removal of the Indians from Alabama. He came to Alabama and settled in the woods four miles below Troy, when there were yet a few scattering Indians, and when the white settlers were few and far between. He improved his farm, and spent the rest of his life thereon, dying about 1880. His wife died in July, 1890. Both were members of the Primitive Baptist church for many years. Mr. Bryan was a well-to-do farmer, rather retiring in his disposition, a hard working, industrious and honest man. He and a brother were all of the family who ever came to Alabama. Samuel Gibson, the maternal grandfather of Yancey L. Bryan, was probably a native of South Caroline, and removed from that state, first to Florida, and then to Pike county, Ala., a few years before Mr. Bryan, settling twelve miles below Troy, and died there about the beginning of the war. He was the father of a large family. Yancey L. Bryan was the seventh in the family of five sons and five daughters, all but one of whom are living, viz: William, deceased, was in the Thirty-seventh Alabama infantry, but who contracted measles, and had to be sent home; Andrew, of Dale county, who was in the Thirty-seventh infantry all through the war, and who was captured at Vicksburg; Emeline, wife of Isaac Wood; Mellison, wife of John Sanders; Susan, wife of John Freeman; Adeline, wife of Marion Carroll; Yancey L. Bryan; Lorenzo D.; Sidney; Frances, wife of Fred Burke; all reared and educated in the neighborhood. In December, 1863, when but seventeen years old, Yancey L. Bryan joined company F, Fifty-seventh Alabama infantry, and spent a short time on the coast of Pollard, then went to North Georgia and fought at Resaca, and all the way back to Atlanta, then to Jonesboro and back with Hood to Franklin and Nashville, where he was on picket duty the first day and was captured after a desperate defense and after shooting away all his ammunition. He was captured about dark on December 15, was in the old penitentiary yard a few days and was then sent to Camp Douglas, where he remained until the third Sunday in June, 1865. He had very scanty food and suffered almost unendurable hardships. While he was in many severe engagements--he was never wounded. After the close of the war he returned home and went to farming. In April, 1866, he married Susan, daughter of Henry and Helen Pinckard, Mr. Pinckard being one of the prominent farmers of Pike county, where he has lived a good while, his wife having died many years ago. Mrs. Bryan died in 1884, leaving nine children, all of whom are living. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist church. In April, 1885, Mr. Bryan married, for his second wife, Amy, daughter of William and Sallie Harrington, natives of Georgia, where they spent all their lives. Mr. Harrington died in the army, and Mrs. Harrington died during the war. Mrs. Bryan was born in Georgia, and when quite small came with her grandfather, Enoch Bragg, to Pike county, where she was reared, and educated. Mr. Bryan first settled near Brundidge for a few years, remaining in the neighborhood of his birth-place until 1885, and since then he has lived on his present farm at Hilliard's cross roads. Here he has a fine farm of 464 acres, and has about 175 acres of it under cultivation. He has been a hard working man and has accumulated what property he has by his own industry and good management. He has placed nearly all the improvements on his present farm, and is one of the most practical farmers in the county. While he is an earnest democrat he has never been an aspirant for any kind of political honors of office, preferring to devote himself to his noble calling of agriculture.

Contributed by Jane Marie Morrison (#46857866).