David Bryant (1797 – 1874) was married three times:

1st wife - Rachel Adams (1798 - 1836)

2nd wife - Margaret Stainbrook (1814 - 1849)

3rd wife - Mercy Amelia (Ransom) (1814 - 1865)

DAVID BRYANT was born on May 12, 1797, near Washington, Pa and died on May 23, 1874, near Erie, Neosho Co., Kansas. He first married Rachel Adams at Wyandot, Ohio, who was born on October 29, 1798, in Ohio and died in April 1836. She was buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery*, Lake Co. Indiana.

David Bryant then married Margaret Stainbrook on December 22, 1836. Margaret died in Bureau County, Illinois from childbirth in 1849. His third wife was Mercy Amelia (Ransom) Morse who he married on July 7, 1850, in Van Wert County, Ohio. Mercy was born on March 1, 1814, in Cicero, New York and died on March 29, 1865, in Bureau County, Illinois. She was buried in Mound Cemetery (aka Boyd's Grove) in Bureau County.

Children of David's first marriage were Isaac Bryant who was born on March 29, 1823, and married Amelia Carter and Nancy Bryant who was born on September 25, 1825, and married William Fisher.

Children of David's second marriage were: John William Bryant was born on April 27, 1839. He lived in his father's home until he reached manhood. He went across the Rocky Mountains with a drove of horses and was not heard from for many years; finally, word came that he had been killed by highwaymen. James Harrison Bryant was born on April 24, 1841, and married Minnie May Hodges. Joseph Allen Bryant was born on May 24, 1842, and married Ida Kate Planner. Daniel Stainbrook Bryant was born on March 15, 1844, and married Frances Cooke. David Bryant was born on November 15, 1846, and married Laura White. George Bryant was born on April 5, 1849, and died as an infant on July 25, 1849.

The only child of David's third marriage was Orah Alice Bryant who was born on June 27, 1854, and married William B. Doddridge. Sometime after 1860 she moved to Bureau County, Illinois with her parents, and when she was eleven years of age (1865) her mother, Mercy Amelia Bryant, died. Orah and her father then returned to Indiana, where they made their home with her sister, Nancy Bryant Fisher, and her family. Orah and her father lived a short time in Neosho County, Kansas with her brothers where David Bryant died in 1874 at the age of 77.

Reference

Braiden, Clara Vaile (1913). Bryant Family History Ancestry and Descendants of David Bryant (1756) of Springfield, NJ; Washington Co., PA; Knox Co., OH; and Wolf Lake, Noble Co., IN. Chicago, Illinois: privately printed

(https://ia902601.us.archive.org/9/items/bryantfamilyhist00brai/bryantfamilyhist00brai.pdf)

DAVID BRYANT made a settlement in 1835 at Pleasant Grove*, Lake County, Indiana, but was not a permanent resident. His wife, Rachel (Adams) Bryant, died in March, 1836, and, after marrying his second wife, Margaret Stainbrook, removed to Bureau County, Illinois, in the spring of 1838 and stayed for some years. He then went to Missouri and lived there a few years, returned to Illinois, then went to Van Wert County, Ohio where he married his third wife, Mercy Amelia (Ransom) Morse, and after five years, in 1853, once again became a resident of Lake County, Indiana.

In 1854 he brought into the county one thousand and sixty-three sheep. He went again to Illinois for a short time, and returned, and again made visits there. Mercy Bryant died in Illinois in 1865. He made his last Lake County home with his oldest daughter, Mrs. William Fisher, then living at Eagle Creek, now in Hebron. A younger daughter, a Lake County girl for a number of years, is still living in this state, Mrs. Orah Doddridge.

Mr. Bryant was a very sociable, friendly man, of religious principle, and a church member. Born about 1797. It was said of him when seventy-five years of age, "He is growing feeble, but retains the use of his mental faculties." His memorial belongs to this county of Lake.

Of the five Bryants who commenced in 1835 the Bryant Settlement, and some of whom gave to the grove the name Pleasant, Simeon Bryant, David Bryant, E. Wayne Bryant, Samuel D. Bryant, and Elias Bryant, who joined the others in the fall of 1835, few of them seem to have made it a permanent home.

Reference

GenealogyTrails.com. Lake County Indiana History, Chapter III. Memorial Sketches of Early Settlers

(https://genealogytrails.com/ind/lake/history_chapter3.html)

*Pleasant Grove Cemetery - Lowell Cemetery

The early pioneer community of Pleasant Grove was near the south end of Lake Dalecarlia and east of the 'four corners' where the Jones school building still stands (now D.C.'s Country Junction). It was settled by the Bryant family in 1834 and named by one of the family members. Several history books mention burials at the "Pleasant Grove Cemetery," and on many trips to the Lowell Cemetery, the Old Timer noticed the same names and dates on stones in the old part near the highway.

Later, much to his surprise, he read the following notation in the DAR Survey of 1956: "We believed that the area is that spoken for by Timothy Ball in his book Lake County 1834-1872 as Pleasant Grove.

This conclusion is based on the fact that many of the earlier settlers of which he speaks as having been buried in Pleasant Grove or residing there are to be found in this cemetery (Lowell). The cemetery covers an area approximately ten acres and included an "almost completely abandoned mausoleum" (1956).

The old mausoleum, built soon after 1900, was at the corner of the main cemetery road and looked very much like a church. Records show that the first burial in the building was in 1905, the last in 1952. When the building was demolished near the site of the structure, and a few were moved to family plots in the Lowell Cemetery or others.

Many of the Pleasant Grove pioneers are buried at the Lowell Cemetery, including a long list of the 1834 Bryant Family. A "new" addition was added to the Lowell Cemetery in 1907, to the north and to the west. The road along the south and west edge of the graveyard once was the old state road, called "Harding Highway," and was part of the racetrack for the 1909 Cobe Trophy Race, the forerunner of the Indianapolis 500.

Reference

Schmal, Richard C. (1988). Pioneer History; The Hallowed Ground of Our Pioneer Ancestors

(https://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/s1988oct.htm)