Tarlton Bryant was a son of William Bryan (1730?-1799) of N.C. and Sarah Hardage of S.C. (Some sources list Tarlton's first name as William, middle name Tarlton.) The family name was Bryan in S.C., but Tarlton opted for Bryant, the spelling of his believed-to-be (but not thoroughly documented) grandfather John Bryon Bryan/Bryant (1692-1741, born in colonial Virginia). John's wife, William's mother/Tarlton's grandmother (?), was Elizabeth Joyner (1699-1782). Tarlton and 3 brothers (William, Edward and John) moved to Cocke County, Tenn. between 1805 and 1808. Tarlton settled in the vicinity of present-day Bogard and Friendship roads (English Creek Community).
Tarlton's brother Edward Bryan, his wife Elizabeth, and 3 children spent some time with Tarlton before moving to Knox County, Ky. where 2 other children were born. All 3 Bryan brothers eventually moved on to Kentucky, later to Indiana. Their sisters remained in S.C.
Edward Bryan died in 1846 in Greene County, Ind. His widow Elizabeth remarried. Three of their children, William, Elizabeth, and John, as young children spend some time in Cocke County. Polly was born in Kentucky (even though her memorial lists S.C., where her older siblings were born). William does not have a Find A Grave memorial. But his son "Ned" has a well maintained memorial with family links and photos.
Tarlton married Jane Henry. Their children were Eva (Hickey), Brummit, James Hardin "Hardy," Aaron, Mary "Polly" (Hicks), William Morris, Levina "Vina" (Branch), and Lucy (died young). After Jane's early death, Tarlton married "Miss Allen" (full identity unknown). They had a son, William Carson. (With 2 sons, half-brothers, named William, the older was known as "Morris.")
After Tarlton returned from service in the War of 1812, he purchased (with a land grant) a second tract of land in the Lower English Creek Community, about a mile down stream from his home place. The Bryant & Sisk Cemetery, where many of Tarlton's descendants are buried, was carved from this farm. After Tarlton's death, the Lower English Creek farmland was passed on to his son, Hardy Bryant. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the land was held by Hardy's sons, Judd and Ananias Bryant. After Ananias's death, his land was passed on to daughter Cordelia and her husband Jim Breeden. Today, these original Bryant land holdings are subdivided and owened by various families not related to the Bryants.
Tarlton and Jane were buried on their Upper English Creek farm. There were 2 sections of the family cemetery. The larger section (later known as the Hicks Cemetery) has since vanished from the surface, but Tarlton and Jane's graves were apart from the graves of later deceased family members and their headstones still stand.
[There may have been another Bryant family (no relationship known) in Cocke County around the time Tarlton came from South Carolina. Military records indicate that two other Bryants from Cocke County (in addition to Tarlton) served in the War of 1812. They were James and William. William, possibly, could have been Tarlton's brother "William Bryan." James could have been the patriarch of the Bogard set of Bryants, settled a couple of miles away. The earliest recorded of the Bogard Bryants was Lavinia. Her origin (or whether Bryant was her maiden or married name) is unknown The father of Lavinia's children (Mary, John, James & Noah), who retained the "Bryant" name (sometimes "Denton"), was William Denton. Lavinia's son James Jefferson Bryant and many of his descendants are buried in the Aunt Bert Bryant Cemetery, about 3 miles from the Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery. Lavinia's daughter, Mary Ann, married John Keener and later Moses Hicks Jr. Mary and Moses are buried in Missouri. Lavinia's son John married and started a family in the English Creek Community before moving away. Three of his sons, John Jr., Roten and James, along with their sister Alice Eslinger, remained in Cocke County. Another son, Dan, lived in Rockwood (Roane Co.).
FIND A GRAVE CONTRIBUTOR KAT (#47460377) offers this additional data: I have found this record concerning a WILLIAM BRYANT: Marriage-Lovinia Johnson 14 January 1835 • Nelson County, Virginia. This would fit with her first child Mary Ann Bryant (1838–1917)-(md.John Keener & Moses Hicks). Somewhere in my research she and her siblings John A Bryant,
James Jefferson & Noah M Bryant/Denton are LISTED as being born
in Virginia. Lavinia is ALONE in 1850 with her children (William Addison Denton is living next door). By 1860 she can NOT be found again! Daughter Mary Ann has married John Keener and her siblings are living with HER and husband John and their two children Harriet S Keener b 1854 & William Keener b 1858– NOTE all her siblings are listed as last name "Keener." I cannot find a REASON way Mary's son John Anderson Hicks listed {William Addison Denton as being her FATHER on Missiouri D/C}. Mr Denton was married to Mary Calhoun by 1860 and living with his family of 4 children-living until 1882 • Lower Cosby, Cocke, Tennessee and never in the homes of any of the BRYANT children.]
PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE: The top photo of Tarlton's grave was provided by Verna Seigler, a descendant of Tarlton's daughter Levina Branch. Verna is a resident of South Carolina (born in Oklahoma). Three photos were taken and posted by Carol Bryant. She and Rowena (Bryant) Wall, both great-great-great granddaughters of Tarlton Bryant, came from Missouri to Cocke County in 2008 to research their Bryant ancestry. In the top photo is Madaline (Templin) Murrell, whose grandmother Jane (Bryant) Baxter was Tarlton Bryant's granddaughter. In the lower photo is Rowena followed by Jennie Ruth (Breeden) Whaley, whose great grandfather, Ananias Bryant, was a grandson of Tarlton Bryant. Madaline, Rowena and Jennie in these photos are exploring the remains of the Tarlton Bryant family cemetery.
[Research by Gene Bryant, son of James A. Bryant and a 4th-generation descendant of Tarlton and Jane.]
A set of detailed notes on the history of the Bryan/Bryant Family is posted online.
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Aaron/Aron Bryant (son of Tarlton) family history is highlighted in the book "COLLIN COUNTY: Pioneering In North Texas" by Capt. Roy and Helen Hall. It is part of a section featuring Elijah 'Lige' Baxter, Aaron's son-in-law. The following is an excerpt:
"Lige...came to Collin County in 1869 or 1870 after inheriting his share of his father's estate on the top of English Mountain....
"Lige had been captured at Vicksburg Mississippi during the Civil War but was released in about a week and returned to Cocke County where he married Aron Bryant's daughter, Margaret....
"...Lige...had...brothers-in-law here before him. They were James Polk Duncan; Felix Grundy Lewis; and James 'Jim' Stuart. These fellows had all married daughters of Aron Bryant. Lige Baxter and Aron Bryant came to Texas together.
"Aron Bryant's wife was Elizabeth Mantooth and their children were Emiline, who married Jim Stuart and after his death a Benjamin Johnson who was a preacher; Jane who married Samuel Baxter--Lige's brother--and stayed in Cocke County, Tennessee; Lavina, who married Grundy Lewis; Margaret who married Lige; Elizabeth who married Jim Duncan; James; Lucinda, who married Houston Weaver; William [who died young]; Harriett, who died of pneumonia when about eighteen; and Aaron."
The Halls' book on Collin County, Texas pioneers outlines many other interesting connections with Cocke County, Tenn., under a section on "The Duncan Family."
James Polk Duncan married Elizabeth Bryant, Aaron Bryant's daughter (Tarlton Bryant's granddaughter) in Newport, Tenn. May 25, 1865. J.P.'s parents were William Duncan and Elizabeth [Bayless]. The Duncans lived in the Bogard Community near the base of English Mountain.
Following are excerpts from the book:
"At age 17 he [Duncan] enlisted in the Union Army and served throughout the Civil War in Company E., 2nd Tennessee Cavalry in General Grant's army. He served under his brother, 1st Lt. Daniel B. Duncan, and was in several battles in Tennessee, as well as the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi. He received his discharge at Nashville, Tennessee on July 14, 1865 and returned to Newport.
"When he was 22 years old he and his family moved to Texas to live. The family and five other families made the trip in a boat made by William Duncan. The boat was 56 feet long and 16 feet wide. Besides the six families, the boat contained their household goods...and F. Grundy brought a span of mules and others their milk cows and chickens. The six families were Martin N. Lewis and family, F. G. Grundy Lewis family, G. Tucker family, Will Clevenger family, J.P. Duncan family, and the Phil Roberts family.
"They started on the French Broad River at Hay's Ferry, then into the Tennessee River, then the Ohio River and at last into the Mississippi. They left the Mississippi to go down Red River to Jefferson, Texas where they sold their boat and came overland to Collin County. They joined his father-in-law [Aaron Bryant]. They arrived March 27, 1868...."
Elizabeth (Bryant) Duncan's obituary from Courier Gazette Newspaper of McKinney, Texas, October 3 1932:
"Largely attended funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan were held at the family residence in the Bowlby community Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Reverand E. B. Jackson, pastor of the South Wilcox Street Methodist Church, and assisted by Elder R. C. Horn of this city. Internment followed in Pecan Grove Cemetery under the direction of Sam J. Massie and Son Funeral Home.
"The newly made grave was covered with a profusion of flowers, silent tokens of the high esteem and love in which the decesased was held by a multitude of friends and relatives.
"The deceased was 86 years old at the time of her passing Monday morning October 3rd, at 6:25 o'clock following a four weeks' illness. Her husband, the late Jim P. Duncan, passed away six days prior to her death, her body being laid to rest beside his grave.
"The surviving children are: Mrs. Mary Etta Hutcherson who resides west of McKinney; Mrs. Owen Matthews of Dallas, L.C. Duncan who resides on McKinney Route 2; R. L. (Bob) Duncan of Hopkins County; and Aaron, Ed, Jim, Ray and Clay Duncan all of whom reside west of McKinney."
Elizabeth's husband's obituary ran in the same newspaper a week earlier:
"Jim P. Duncan, native of Newport Tennessee and resident of the Bowlby community west of McKinney for many years, died at the McKinney City Hospital this (Tuesday) morning, September 27th at 3:35 o'clock. He had been in the hospital for the past six weeks.
"The deceased was born October 31st, 1844 in Newport, Tennessee being therefore at the time of his death 87 years, 10 months and 26 days old. He was the son of William Duncan and Elizabeth Balus [Bayless] Duncan of Tennessee.
"Surviving are his wife, who was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Bryant and nine children as follows: Mrs. Mary Etta Hutcherson who resides west of McKinney; Mrs. Owen Matthews of Dallas, L.C. Duncan who resides on McKinney Route 2; R. L. (Bob) Duncan of Hopkins County; and Aaron, Ed, Jim, Ray and Clay Duncan all of whom reside west of McKinney.
"Funeral services are pending. They will be under the direction of the Sam J. Massie and Son Funeral Home of this city.
"The wife of the deceased, Mrs. Jim Duncan, is critically ill at their home in the Bowlby community."
Tarlton's brother Edward Bryan, his wife Elizabeth, and 3 children spent some time with Tarlton before moving to Knox County, Ky. where 2 other children were born. All 3 Bryan brothers eventually moved on to Kentucky, later to Indiana. Their sisters remained in S.C.
Edward Bryan died in 1846 in Greene County, Ind. His widow Elizabeth remarried. Three of their children, William, Elizabeth, and John, as young children spend some time in Cocke County. Polly was born in Kentucky (even though her memorial lists S.C., where her older siblings were born). William does not have a Find A Grave memorial. But his son "Ned" has a well maintained memorial with family links and photos.
Tarlton married Jane Henry. Their children were Eva (Hickey), Brummit, James Hardin "Hardy," Aaron, Mary "Polly" (Hicks), William Morris, Levina "Vina" (Branch), and Lucy (died young). After Jane's early death, Tarlton married "Miss Allen" (full identity unknown). They had a son, William Carson. (With 2 sons, half-brothers, named William, the older was known as "Morris.")
After Tarlton returned from service in the War of 1812, he purchased (with a land grant) a second tract of land in the Lower English Creek Community, about a mile down stream from his home place. The Bryant & Sisk Cemetery, where many of Tarlton's descendants are buried, was carved from this farm. After Tarlton's death, the Lower English Creek farmland was passed on to his son, Hardy Bryant. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the land was held by Hardy's sons, Judd and Ananias Bryant. After Ananias's death, his land was passed on to daughter Cordelia and her husband Jim Breeden. Today, these original Bryant land holdings are subdivided and owened by various families not related to the Bryants.
Tarlton and Jane were buried on their Upper English Creek farm. There were 2 sections of the family cemetery. The larger section (later known as the Hicks Cemetery) has since vanished from the surface, but Tarlton and Jane's graves were apart from the graves of later deceased family members and their headstones still stand.
[There may have been another Bryant family (no relationship known) in Cocke County around the time Tarlton came from South Carolina. Military records indicate that two other Bryants from Cocke County (in addition to Tarlton) served in the War of 1812. They were James and William. William, possibly, could have been Tarlton's brother "William Bryan." James could have been the patriarch of the Bogard set of Bryants, settled a couple of miles away. The earliest recorded of the Bogard Bryants was Lavinia. Her origin (or whether Bryant was her maiden or married name) is unknown The father of Lavinia's children (Mary, John, James & Noah), who retained the "Bryant" name (sometimes "Denton"), was William Denton. Lavinia's son James Jefferson Bryant and many of his descendants are buried in the Aunt Bert Bryant Cemetery, about 3 miles from the Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery. Lavinia's daughter, Mary Ann, married John Keener and later Moses Hicks Jr. Mary and Moses are buried in Missouri. Lavinia's son John married and started a family in the English Creek Community before moving away. Three of his sons, John Jr., Roten and James, along with their sister Alice Eslinger, remained in Cocke County. Another son, Dan, lived in Rockwood (Roane Co.).
FIND A GRAVE CONTRIBUTOR KAT (#47460377) offers this additional data: I have found this record concerning a WILLIAM BRYANT: Marriage-Lovinia Johnson 14 January 1835 • Nelson County, Virginia. This would fit with her first child Mary Ann Bryant (1838–1917)-(md.John Keener & Moses Hicks). Somewhere in my research she and her siblings John A Bryant,
James Jefferson & Noah M Bryant/Denton are LISTED as being born
in Virginia. Lavinia is ALONE in 1850 with her children (William Addison Denton is living next door). By 1860 she can NOT be found again! Daughter Mary Ann has married John Keener and her siblings are living with HER and husband John and their two children Harriet S Keener b 1854 & William Keener b 1858– NOTE all her siblings are listed as last name "Keener." I cannot find a REASON way Mary's son John Anderson Hicks listed {William Addison Denton as being her FATHER on Missiouri D/C}. Mr Denton was married to Mary Calhoun by 1860 and living with his family of 4 children-living until 1882 • Lower Cosby, Cocke, Tennessee and never in the homes of any of the BRYANT children.]
PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE: The top photo of Tarlton's grave was provided by Verna Seigler, a descendant of Tarlton's daughter Levina Branch. Verna is a resident of South Carolina (born in Oklahoma). Three photos were taken and posted by Carol Bryant. She and Rowena (Bryant) Wall, both great-great-great granddaughters of Tarlton Bryant, came from Missouri to Cocke County in 2008 to research their Bryant ancestry. In the top photo is Madaline (Templin) Murrell, whose grandmother Jane (Bryant) Baxter was Tarlton Bryant's granddaughter. In the lower photo is Rowena followed by Jennie Ruth (Breeden) Whaley, whose great grandfather, Ananias Bryant, was a grandson of Tarlton Bryant. Madaline, Rowena and Jennie in these photos are exploring the remains of the Tarlton Bryant family cemetery.
[Research by Gene Bryant, son of James A. Bryant and a 4th-generation descendant of Tarlton and Jane.]
A set of detailed notes on the history of the Bryan/Bryant Family is posted online.
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Aaron/Aron Bryant (son of Tarlton) family history is highlighted in the book "COLLIN COUNTY: Pioneering In North Texas" by Capt. Roy and Helen Hall. It is part of a section featuring Elijah 'Lige' Baxter, Aaron's son-in-law. The following is an excerpt:
"Lige...came to Collin County in 1869 or 1870 after inheriting his share of his father's estate on the top of English Mountain....
"Lige had been captured at Vicksburg Mississippi during the Civil War but was released in about a week and returned to Cocke County where he married Aron Bryant's daughter, Margaret....
"...Lige...had...brothers-in-law here before him. They were James Polk Duncan; Felix Grundy Lewis; and James 'Jim' Stuart. These fellows had all married daughters of Aron Bryant. Lige Baxter and Aron Bryant came to Texas together.
"Aron Bryant's wife was Elizabeth Mantooth and their children were Emiline, who married Jim Stuart and after his death a Benjamin Johnson who was a preacher; Jane who married Samuel Baxter--Lige's brother--and stayed in Cocke County, Tennessee; Lavina, who married Grundy Lewis; Margaret who married Lige; Elizabeth who married Jim Duncan; James; Lucinda, who married Houston Weaver; William [who died young]; Harriett, who died of pneumonia when about eighteen; and Aaron."
The Halls' book on Collin County, Texas pioneers outlines many other interesting connections with Cocke County, Tenn., under a section on "The Duncan Family."
James Polk Duncan married Elizabeth Bryant, Aaron Bryant's daughter (Tarlton Bryant's granddaughter) in Newport, Tenn. May 25, 1865. J.P.'s parents were William Duncan and Elizabeth [Bayless]. The Duncans lived in the Bogard Community near the base of English Mountain.
Following are excerpts from the book:
"At age 17 he [Duncan] enlisted in the Union Army and served throughout the Civil War in Company E., 2nd Tennessee Cavalry in General Grant's army. He served under his brother, 1st Lt. Daniel B. Duncan, and was in several battles in Tennessee, as well as the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi. He received his discharge at Nashville, Tennessee on July 14, 1865 and returned to Newport.
"When he was 22 years old he and his family moved to Texas to live. The family and five other families made the trip in a boat made by William Duncan. The boat was 56 feet long and 16 feet wide. Besides the six families, the boat contained their household goods...and F. Grundy brought a span of mules and others their milk cows and chickens. The six families were Martin N. Lewis and family, F. G. Grundy Lewis family, G. Tucker family, Will Clevenger family, J.P. Duncan family, and the Phil Roberts family.
"They started on the French Broad River at Hay's Ferry, then into the Tennessee River, then the Ohio River and at last into the Mississippi. They left the Mississippi to go down Red River to Jefferson, Texas where they sold their boat and came overland to Collin County. They joined his father-in-law [Aaron Bryant]. They arrived March 27, 1868...."
Elizabeth (Bryant) Duncan's obituary from Courier Gazette Newspaper of McKinney, Texas, October 3 1932:
"Largely attended funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan were held at the family residence in the Bowlby community Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Reverand E. B. Jackson, pastor of the South Wilcox Street Methodist Church, and assisted by Elder R. C. Horn of this city. Internment followed in Pecan Grove Cemetery under the direction of Sam J. Massie and Son Funeral Home.
"The newly made grave was covered with a profusion of flowers, silent tokens of the high esteem and love in which the decesased was held by a multitude of friends and relatives.
"The deceased was 86 years old at the time of her passing Monday morning October 3rd, at 6:25 o'clock following a four weeks' illness. Her husband, the late Jim P. Duncan, passed away six days prior to her death, her body being laid to rest beside his grave.
"The surviving children are: Mrs. Mary Etta Hutcherson who resides west of McKinney; Mrs. Owen Matthews of Dallas, L.C. Duncan who resides on McKinney Route 2; R. L. (Bob) Duncan of Hopkins County; and Aaron, Ed, Jim, Ray and Clay Duncan all of whom reside west of McKinney."
Elizabeth's husband's obituary ran in the same newspaper a week earlier:
"Jim P. Duncan, native of Newport Tennessee and resident of the Bowlby community west of McKinney for many years, died at the McKinney City Hospital this (Tuesday) morning, September 27th at 3:35 o'clock. He had been in the hospital for the past six weeks.
"The deceased was born October 31st, 1844 in Newport, Tennessee being therefore at the time of his death 87 years, 10 months and 26 days old. He was the son of William Duncan and Elizabeth Balus [Bayless] Duncan of Tennessee.
"Surviving are his wife, who was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Bryant and nine children as follows: Mrs. Mary Etta Hutcherson who resides west of McKinney; Mrs. Owen Matthews of Dallas, L.C. Duncan who resides on McKinney Route 2; R. L. (Bob) Duncan of Hopkins County; and Aaron, Ed, Jim, Ray and Clay Duncan all of whom reside west of McKinney.
"Funeral services are pending. They will be under the direction of the Sam J. Massie and Son Funeral Home of this city.
"The wife of the deceased, Mrs. Jim Duncan, is critically ill at their home in the Bowlby community."
Tarlton Bryant was a son of William Bryan (1730?-1799) of N.C. and Sarah Hardage of S.C. (Some sources list Tarlton's first name as William, middle name Tarlton.) The family name was Bryan in S.C., but Tarlton opted for Bryant, the spelling of his believed-to-be (but not thoroughly documented) grandfather John Bryon Bryan/Bryant (1692-1741, born in colonial Virginia). John's wife, William's mother/Tarlton's grandmother (?), was Elizabeth Joyner (1699-1782). Tarlton and 3 brothers (William, Edward and John) moved to Cocke County, Tenn. between 1805 and 1808. Tarlton settled in the vicinity of present-day Bogard and Friendship roads (English Creek Community).
Tarlton's brother Edward Bryan, his wife Elizabeth, and 3 children spent some time with Tarlton before moving to Knox County, Ky. where 2 other children were born. All 3 Bryan brothers eventually moved on to Kentucky, later to Indiana. Their sisters remained in S.C.
Edward Bryan died in 1846 in Greene County, Ind. His widow Elizabeth remarried. Three of their children, William, Elizabeth, and John, as young children spend some time in Cocke County. Polly was born in Kentucky (even though her memorial lists S.C., where her older siblings were born). William does not have a Find A Grave memorial. But his son "Ned" has a well maintained memorial with family links and photos.
Tarlton married Jane Henry. Their children were Eva (Hickey), Brummit, James Hardin "Hardy," Aaron, Mary "Polly" (Hicks), William Morris, Levina "Vina" (Branch), and Lucy (died young). After Jane's early death, Tarlton married "Miss Allen" (full identity unknown). They had a son, William Carson. (With 2 sons, half-brothers, named William, the older was known as "Morris.")
After Tarlton returned from service in the War of 1812, he purchased (with a land grant) a second tract of land in the Lower English Creek Community, about a mile down stream from his home place. The Bryant & Sisk Cemetery, where many of Tarlton's descendants are buried, was carved from this farm. After Tarlton's death, the Lower English Creek farmland was passed on to his son, Hardy Bryant. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the land was held by Hardy's sons, Judd and Ananias Bryant. After Ananias's death, his land was passed on to daughter Cordelia and her husband Jim Breeden. Today, these original Bryant land holdings are subdivided and owened by various families not related to the Bryants.
Tarlton and Jane were buried on their Upper English Creek farm. There were 2 sections of the family cemetery. The larger section (later known as the Hicks Cemetery) has since vanished from the surface, but Tarlton and Jane's graves were apart from the graves of later deceased family members and their headstones still stand.
[There may have been another Bryant family (no relationship known) in Cocke County around the time Tarlton came from South Carolina. Military records indicate that two other Bryants from Cocke County (in addition to Tarlton) served in the War of 1812. They were James and William. William, possibly, could have been Tarlton's brother "William Bryan." James could have been the patriarch of the Bogard set of Bryants, settled a couple of miles away. The earliest recorded of the Bogard Bryants was Lavinia. Her origin (or whether Bryant was her maiden or married name) is unknown The father of Lavinia's children (Mary, John, James & Noah), who retained the "Bryant" name (sometimes "Denton"), was William Denton. Lavinia's son James Jefferson Bryant and many of his descendants are buried in the Aunt Bert Bryant Cemetery, about 3 miles from the Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery. Lavinia's daughter, Mary Ann, married John Keener and later Moses Hicks Jr. Mary and Moses are buried in Missouri. Lavinia's son John married and started a family in the English Creek Community before moving away. Three of his sons, John Jr., Roten and James, along with their sister Alice Eslinger, remained in Cocke County. Another son, Dan, lived in Rockwood (Roane Co.).
FIND A GRAVE CONTRIBUTOR KAT (#47460377) offers this additional data: I have found this record concerning a WILLIAM BRYANT: Marriage-Lovinia Johnson 14 January 1835 • Nelson County, Virginia. This would fit with her first child Mary Ann Bryant (1838–1917)-(md.John Keener & Moses Hicks). Somewhere in my research she and her siblings John A Bryant,
James Jefferson & Noah M Bryant/Denton are LISTED as being born
in Virginia. Lavinia is ALONE in 1850 with her children (William Addison Denton is living next door). By 1860 she can NOT be found again! Daughter Mary Ann has married John Keener and her siblings are living with HER and husband John and their two children Harriet S Keener b 1854 & William Keener b 1858– NOTE all her siblings are listed as last name "Keener." I cannot find a REASON way Mary's son John Anderson Hicks listed {William Addison Denton as being her FATHER on Missiouri D/C}. Mr Denton was married to Mary Calhoun by 1860 and living with his family of 4 children-living until 1882 • Lower Cosby, Cocke, Tennessee and never in the homes of any of the BRYANT children.]
PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE: The top photo of Tarlton's grave was provided by Verna Seigler, a descendant of Tarlton's daughter Levina Branch. Verna is a resident of South Carolina (born in Oklahoma). Three photos were taken and posted by Carol Bryant. She and Rowena (Bryant) Wall, both great-great-great granddaughters of Tarlton Bryant, came from Missouri to Cocke County in 2008 to research their Bryant ancestry. In the top photo is Madaline (Templin) Murrell, whose grandmother Jane (Bryant) Baxter was Tarlton Bryant's granddaughter. In the lower photo is Rowena followed by Jennie Ruth (Breeden) Whaley, whose great grandfather, Ananias Bryant, was a grandson of Tarlton Bryant. Madaline, Rowena and Jennie in these photos are exploring the remains of the Tarlton Bryant family cemetery.
[Research by Gene Bryant, son of James A. Bryant and a 4th-generation descendant of Tarlton and Jane.]
A set of detailed notes on the history of the Bryan/Bryant Family is posted online.
________________________________________________
Aaron/Aron Bryant (son of Tarlton) family history is highlighted in the book "COLLIN COUNTY: Pioneering In North Texas" by Capt. Roy and Helen Hall. It is part of a section featuring Elijah 'Lige' Baxter, Aaron's son-in-law. The following is an excerpt:
"Lige...came to Collin County in 1869 or 1870 after inheriting his share of his father's estate on the top of English Mountain....
"Lige had been captured at Vicksburg Mississippi during the Civil War but was released in about a week and returned to Cocke County where he married Aron Bryant's daughter, Margaret....
"...Lige...had...brothers-in-law here before him. They were James Polk Duncan; Felix Grundy Lewis; and James 'Jim' Stuart. These fellows had all married daughters of Aron Bryant. Lige Baxter and Aron Bryant came to Texas together.
"Aron Bryant's wife was Elizabeth Mantooth and their children were Emiline, who married Jim Stuart and after his death a Benjamin Johnson who was a preacher; Jane who married Samuel Baxter--Lige's brother--and stayed in Cocke County, Tennessee; Lavina, who married Grundy Lewis; Margaret who married Lige; Elizabeth who married Jim Duncan; James; Lucinda, who married Houston Weaver; William [who died young]; Harriett, who died of pneumonia when about eighteen; and Aaron."
The Halls' book on Collin County, Texas pioneers outlines many other interesting connections with Cocke County, Tenn., under a section on "The Duncan Family."
James Polk Duncan married Elizabeth Bryant, Aaron Bryant's daughter (Tarlton Bryant's granddaughter) in Newport, Tenn. May 25, 1865. J.P.'s parents were William Duncan and Elizabeth [Bayless]. The Duncans lived in the Bogard Community near the base of English Mountain.
Following are excerpts from the book:
"At age 17 he [Duncan] enlisted in the Union Army and served throughout the Civil War in Company E., 2nd Tennessee Cavalry in General Grant's army. He served under his brother, 1st Lt. Daniel B. Duncan, and was in several battles in Tennessee, as well as the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi. He received his discharge at Nashville, Tennessee on July 14, 1865 and returned to Newport.
"When he was 22 years old he and his family moved to Texas to live. The family and five other families made the trip in a boat made by William Duncan. The boat was 56 feet long and 16 feet wide. Besides the six families, the boat contained their household goods...and F. Grundy brought a span of mules and others their milk cows and chickens. The six families were Martin N. Lewis and family, F. G. Grundy Lewis family, G. Tucker family, Will Clevenger family, J.P. Duncan family, and the Phil Roberts family.
"They started on the French Broad River at Hay's Ferry, then into the Tennessee River, then the Ohio River and at last into the Mississippi. They left the Mississippi to go down Red River to Jefferson, Texas where they sold their boat and came overland to Collin County. They joined his father-in-law [Aaron Bryant]. They arrived March 27, 1868...."
Elizabeth (Bryant) Duncan's obituary from Courier Gazette Newspaper of McKinney, Texas, October 3 1932:
"Largely attended funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan were held at the family residence in the Bowlby community Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Reverand E. B. Jackson, pastor of the South Wilcox Street Methodist Church, and assisted by Elder R. C. Horn of this city. Internment followed in Pecan Grove Cemetery under the direction of Sam J. Massie and Son Funeral Home.
"The newly made grave was covered with a profusion of flowers, silent tokens of the high esteem and love in which the decesased was held by a multitude of friends and relatives.
"The deceased was 86 years old at the time of her passing Monday morning October 3rd, at 6:25 o'clock following a four weeks' illness. Her husband, the late Jim P. Duncan, passed away six days prior to her death, her body being laid to rest beside his grave.
"The surviving children are: Mrs. Mary Etta Hutcherson who resides west of McKinney; Mrs. Owen Matthews of Dallas, L.C. Duncan who resides on McKinney Route 2; R. L. (Bob) Duncan of Hopkins County; and Aaron, Ed, Jim, Ray and Clay Duncan all of whom reside west of McKinney."
Elizabeth's husband's obituary ran in the same newspaper a week earlier:
"Jim P. Duncan, native of Newport Tennessee and resident of the Bowlby community west of McKinney for many years, died at the McKinney City Hospital this (Tuesday) morning, September 27th at 3:35 o'clock. He had been in the hospital for the past six weeks.
"The deceased was born October 31st, 1844 in Newport, Tennessee being therefore at the time of his death 87 years, 10 months and 26 days old. He was the son of William Duncan and Elizabeth Balus [Bayless] Duncan of Tennessee.
"Surviving are his wife, who was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Bryant and nine children as follows: Mrs. Mary Etta Hutcherson who resides west of McKinney; Mrs. Owen Matthews of Dallas, L.C. Duncan who resides on McKinney Route 2; R. L. (Bob) Duncan of Hopkins County; and Aaron, Ed, Jim, Ray and Clay Duncan all of whom reside west of McKinney.
"Funeral services are pending. They will be under the direction of the Sam J. Massie and Son Funeral Home of this city.
"The wife of the deceased, Mrs. Jim Duncan, is critically ill at their home in the Bowlby community."
Tarlton's brother Edward Bryan, his wife Elizabeth, and 3 children spent some time with Tarlton before moving to Knox County, Ky. where 2 other children were born. All 3 Bryan brothers eventually moved on to Kentucky, later to Indiana. Their sisters remained in S.C.
Edward Bryan died in 1846 in Greene County, Ind. His widow Elizabeth remarried. Three of their children, William, Elizabeth, and John, as young children spend some time in Cocke County. Polly was born in Kentucky (even though her memorial lists S.C., where her older siblings were born). William does not have a Find A Grave memorial. But his son "Ned" has a well maintained memorial with family links and photos.
Tarlton married Jane Henry. Their children were Eva (Hickey), Brummit, James Hardin "Hardy," Aaron, Mary "Polly" (Hicks), William Morris, Levina "Vina" (Branch), and Lucy (died young). After Jane's early death, Tarlton married "Miss Allen" (full identity unknown). They had a son, William Carson. (With 2 sons, half-brothers, named William, the older was known as "Morris.")
After Tarlton returned from service in the War of 1812, he purchased (with a land grant) a second tract of land in the Lower English Creek Community, about a mile down stream from his home place. The Bryant & Sisk Cemetery, where many of Tarlton's descendants are buried, was carved from this farm. After Tarlton's death, the Lower English Creek farmland was passed on to his son, Hardy Bryant. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the land was held by Hardy's sons, Judd and Ananias Bryant. After Ananias's death, his land was passed on to daughter Cordelia and her husband Jim Breeden. Today, these original Bryant land holdings are subdivided and owened by various families not related to the Bryants.
Tarlton and Jane were buried on their Upper English Creek farm. There were 2 sections of the family cemetery. The larger section (later known as the Hicks Cemetery) has since vanished from the surface, but Tarlton and Jane's graves were apart from the graves of later deceased family members and their headstones still stand.
[There may have been another Bryant family (no relationship known) in Cocke County around the time Tarlton came from South Carolina. Military records indicate that two other Bryants from Cocke County (in addition to Tarlton) served in the War of 1812. They were James and William. William, possibly, could have been Tarlton's brother "William Bryan." James could have been the patriarch of the Bogard set of Bryants, settled a couple of miles away. The earliest recorded of the Bogard Bryants was Lavinia. Her origin (or whether Bryant was her maiden or married name) is unknown The father of Lavinia's children (Mary, John, James & Noah), who retained the "Bryant" name (sometimes "Denton"), was William Denton. Lavinia's son James Jefferson Bryant and many of his descendants are buried in the Aunt Bert Bryant Cemetery, about 3 miles from the Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery. Lavinia's daughter, Mary Ann, married John Keener and later Moses Hicks Jr. Mary and Moses are buried in Missouri. Lavinia's son John married and started a family in the English Creek Community before moving away. Three of his sons, John Jr., Roten and James, along with their sister Alice Eslinger, remained in Cocke County. Another son, Dan, lived in Rockwood (Roane Co.).
FIND A GRAVE CONTRIBUTOR KAT (#47460377) offers this additional data: I have found this record concerning a WILLIAM BRYANT: Marriage-Lovinia Johnson 14 January 1835 • Nelson County, Virginia. This would fit with her first child Mary Ann Bryant (1838–1917)-(md.John Keener & Moses Hicks). Somewhere in my research she and her siblings John A Bryant,
James Jefferson & Noah M Bryant/Denton are LISTED as being born
in Virginia. Lavinia is ALONE in 1850 with her children (William Addison Denton is living next door). By 1860 she can NOT be found again! Daughter Mary Ann has married John Keener and her siblings are living with HER and husband John and their two children Harriet S Keener b 1854 & William Keener b 1858– NOTE all her siblings are listed as last name "Keener." I cannot find a REASON way Mary's son John Anderson Hicks listed {William Addison Denton as being her FATHER on Missiouri D/C}. Mr Denton was married to Mary Calhoun by 1860 and living with his family of 4 children-living until 1882 • Lower Cosby, Cocke, Tennessee and never in the homes of any of the BRYANT children.]
PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE: The top photo of Tarlton's grave was provided by Verna Seigler, a descendant of Tarlton's daughter Levina Branch. Verna is a resident of South Carolina (born in Oklahoma). Three photos were taken and posted by Carol Bryant. She and Rowena (Bryant) Wall, both great-great-great granddaughters of Tarlton Bryant, came from Missouri to Cocke County in 2008 to research their Bryant ancestry. In the top photo is Madaline (Templin) Murrell, whose grandmother Jane (Bryant) Baxter was Tarlton Bryant's granddaughter. In the lower photo is Rowena followed by Jennie Ruth (Breeden) Whaley, whose great grandfather, Ananias Bryant, was a grandson of Tarlton Bryant. Madaline, Rowena and Jennie in these photos are exploring the remains of the Tarlton Bryant family cemetery.
[Research by Gene Bryant, son of James A. Bryant and a 4th-generation descendant of Tarlton and Jane.]
A set of detailed notes on the history of the Bryan/Bryant Family is posted online.
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Aaron/Aron Bryant (son of Tarlton) family history is highlighted in the book "COLLIN COUNTY: Pioneering In North Texas" by Capt. Roy and Helen Hall. It is part of a section featuring Elijah 'Lige' Baxter, Aaron's son-in-law. The following is an excerpt:
"Lige...came to Collin County in 1869 or 1870 after inheriting his share of his father's estate on the top of English Mountain....
"Lige had been captured at Vicksburg Mississippi during the Civil War but was released in about a week and returned to Cocke County where he married Aron Bryant's daughter, Margaret....
"...Lige...had...brothers-in-law here before him. They were James Polk Duncan; Felix Grundy Lewis; and James 'Jim' Stuart. These fellows had all married daughters of Aron Bryant. Lige Baxter and Aron Bryant came to Texas together.
"Aron Bryant's wife was Elizabeth Mantooth and their children were Emiline, who married Jim Stuart and after his death a Benjamin Johnson who was a preacher; Jane who married Samuel Baxter--Lige's brother--and stayed in Cocke County, Tennessee; Lavina, who married Grundy Lewis; Margaret who married Lige; Elizabeth who married Jim Duncan; James; Lucinda, who married Houston Weaver; William [who died young]; Harriett, who died of pneumonia when about eighteen; and Aaron."
The Halls' book on Collin County, Texas pioneers outlines many other interesting connections with Cocke County, Tenn., under a section on "The Duncan Family."
James Polk Duncan married Elizabeth Bryant, Aaron Bryant's daughter (Tarlton Bryant's granddaughter) in Newport, Tenn. May 25, 1865. J.P.'s parents were William Duncan and Elizabeth [Bayless]. The Duncans lived in the Bogard Community near the base of English Mountain.
Following are excerpts from the book:
"At age 17 he [Duncan] enlisted in the Union Army and served throughout the Civil War in Company E., 2nd Tennessee Cavalry in General Grant's army. He served under his brother, 1st Lt. Daniel B. Duncan, and was in several battles in Tennessee, as well as the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi. He received his discharge at Nashville, Tennessee on July 14, 1865 and returned to Newport.
"When he was 22 years old he and his family moved to Texas to live. The family and five other families made the trip in a boat made by William Duncan. The boat was 56 feet long and 16 feet wide. Besides the six families, the boat contained their household goods...and F. Grundy brought a span of mules and others their milk cows and chickens. The six families were Martin N. Lewis and family, F. G. Grundy Lewis family, G. Tucker family, Will Clevenger family, J.P. Duncan family, and the Phil Roberts family.
"They started on the French Broad River at Hay's Ferry, then into the Tennessee River, then the Ohio River and at last into the Mississippi. They left the Mississippi to go down Red River to Jefferson, Texas where they sold their boat and came overland to Collin County. They joined his father-in-law [Aaron Bryant]. They arrived March 27, 1868...."
Elizabeth (Bryant) Duncan's obituary from Courier Gazette Newspaper of McKinney, Texas, October 3 1932:
"Largely attended funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan were held at the family residence in the Bowlby community Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Reverand E. B. Jackson, pastor of the South Wilcox Street Methodist Church, and assisted by Elder R. C. Horn of this city. Internment followed in Pecan Grove Cemetery under the direction of Sam J. Massie and Son Funeral Home.
"The newly made grave was covered with a profusion of flowers, silent tokens of the high esteem and love in which the decesased was held by a multitude of friends and relatives.
"The deceased was 86 years old at the time of her passing Monday morning October 3rd, at 6:25 o'clock following a four weeks' illness. Her husband, the late Jim P. Duncan, passed away six days prior to her death, her body being laid to rest beside his grave.
"The surviving children are: Mrs. Mary Etta Hutcherson who resides west of McKinney; Mrs. Owen Matthews of Dallas, L.C. Duncan who resides on McKinney Route 2; R. L. (Bob) Duncan of Hopkins County; and Aaron, Ed, Jim, Ray and Clay Duncan all of whom reside west of McKinney."
Elizabeth's husband's obituary ran in the same newspaper a week earlier:
"Jim P. Duncan, native of Newport Tennessee and resident of the Bowlby community west of McKinney for many years, died at the McKinney City Hospital this (Tuesday) morning, September 27th at 3:35 o'clock. He had been in the hospital for the past six weeks.
"The deceased was born October 31st, 1844 in Newport, Tennessee being therefore at the time of his death 87 years, 10 months and 26 days old. He was the son of William Duncan and Elizabeth Balus [Bayless] Duncan of Tennessee.
"Surviving are his wife, who was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Bryant and nine children as follows: Mrs. Mary Etta Hutcherson who resides west of McKinney; Mrs. Owen Matthews of Dallas, L.C. Duncan who resides on McKinney Route 2; R. L. (Bob) Duncan of Hopkins County; and Aaron, Ed, Jim, Ray and Clay Duncan all of whom reside west of McKinney.
"Funeral services are pending. They will be under the direction of the Sam J. Massie and Son Funeral Home of this city.
"The wife of the deceased, Mrs. Jim Duncan, is critically ill at their home in the Bowlby community."
