William Silas Bryan was born in 1874 in Alabama, where his family had temporarily moved to avoid a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis. He was the son of Jacob Allen Bryan and Malinda Mutelle Armour. When he was about 18, his family moved from Tennessee to Pendleton, Texas, then later relocated to Cooke County, Texas.
Wiliam Bryan married Minnie Shrum in Cooke County in 1894. The couple had seven children, but several died very young. His father died in Cooke County in 1898 and after his death William's mother and siblings moved to Waco, Texas.
William Silas Bryan was a creative man and worked as an artist and jewelry maker, but for a few years around 1910 he and his family moved to Dallas, Texas where he was a piano tuner.
No death record has yet been found for William Silas Bryan. However, he did appear in the 1910 census in Dallas and by 1912 his wife, Minnie, had remarried. This implies but does not prove that William Silas Bryan died about 1911. He may be buried in Fairview Cemetery in Gainesville, Texas where his father was buried in 1898 in an unmarked grave in a family plot, but this is not yet proven. This Bryan family plot was purchased in 1898 by William's older brother, Oscar Bryan, after their father, Jacob Bryan, died. It consists of eight burial spaces.
(NOTE: Texas death records include Willie S. Bryan who died in 1915 in Cooke County, Texas, but this is likely a young black man whose family was there, not William Silas Bryan.)
Wiliam Bryan married Minnie Shrum in Cooke County in 1894. The couple had seven children, but several died very young. His father died in Cooke County in 1898 and after his death William's mother and siblings moved to Waco, Texas.
William Silas Bryan was a creative man and worked as an artist and jewelry maker, but for a few years around 1910 he and his family moved to Dallas, Texas where he was a piano tuner.
No death record has yet been found for William Silas Bryan. However, he did appear in the 1910 census in Dallas and by 1912 his wife, Minnie, had remarried. This implies but does not prove that William Silas Bryan died about 1911. He may be buried in Fairview Cemetery in Gainesville, Texas where his father was buried in 1898 in an unmarked grave in a family plot, but this is not yet proven. This Bryan family plot was purchased in 1898 by William's older brother, Oscar Bryan, after their father, Jacob Bryan, died. It consists of eight burial spaces.
(NOTE: Texas death records include Willie S. Bryan who died in 1915 in Cooke County, Texas, but this is likely a young black man whose family was there, not William Silas Bryan.)
William Silas Bryan was born in 1874 in Alabama, where his family had temporarily moved to avoid a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis. He was the son of Jacob Allen Bryan and Malinda Mutelle Armour. When he was about 18, his family moved from Tennessee to Pendleton, Texas, then later relocated to Cooke County, Texas.
Wiliam Bryan married Minnie Shrum in Cooke County in 1894. The couple had seven children, but several died very young. His father died in Cooke County in 1898 and after his death William's mother and siblings moved to Waco, Texas.
William Silas Bryan was a creative man and worked as an artist and jewelry maker, but for a few years around 1910 he and his family moved to Dallas, Texas where he was a piano tuner.
No death record has yet been found for William Silas Bryan. However, he did appear in the 1910 census in Dallas and by 1912 his wife, Minnie, had remarried. This implies but does not prove that William Silas Bryan died about 1911. He may be buried in Fairview Cemetery in Gainesville, Texas where his father was buried in 1898 in an unmarked grave in a family plot, but this is not yet proven. This Bryan family plot was purchased in 1898 by William's older brother, Oscar Bryan, after their father, Jacob Bryan, died. It consists of eight burial spaces.
(NOTE: Texas death records include Willie S. Bryan who died in 1915 in Cooke County, Texas, but this is likely a young black man whose family was there, not William Silas Bryan.)
Wiliam Bryan married Minnie Shrum in Cooke County in 1894. The couple had seven children, but several died very young. His father died in Cooke County in 1898 and after his death William's mother and siblings moved to Waco, Texas.
William Silas Bryan was a creative man and worked as an artist and jewelry maker, but for a few years around 1910 he and his family moved to Dallas, Texas where he was a piano tuner.
No death record has yet been found for William Silas Bryan. However, he did appear in the 1910 census in Dallas and by 1912 his wife, Minnie, had remarried. This implies but does not prove that William Silas Bryan died about 1911. He may be buried in Fairview Cemetery in Gainesville, Texas where his father was buried in 1898 in an unmarked grave in a family plot, but this is not yet proven. This Bryan family plot was purchased in 1898 by William's older brother, Oscar Bryan, after their father, Jacob Bryan, died. It consists of eight burial spaces.
(NOTE: Texas death records include Willie S. Bryan who died in 1915 in Cooke County, Texas, but this is likely a young black man whose family was there, not William Silas Bryan.)
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This grave is not marked but is probably near his father's, Jacob Allen Bryan, who died 12 years earlier..
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