A son of David and Sarah "Sallie" (Grider) Bryant, he was the firstborn of eleven children.
From the May 22, 1912 Adair County News:
He Will Be Remembered.
Mr. John Bryant, who lives in the Ozark country, was in town a few days ago, looking a little feeble, but still able to step briskly. He is now seventy-nine years old. Twenty years ago he was the best rifle shot in Adair county, and had the reputation of killing more squirrels during the hunting season than any other one man. He never shot a squirrel in the body. If he could not get sight at the head, he waited for the opportunity, and never missed a shot. It would [be] a difficult matter for him to estimate the number of squirrels he has killed and sold on the market in this place, be he has certainly brought down several thousand. Mr. Bryant has lived an unpretentious life, but he has been strictly honorable in all his dealing with [his] fellow man. He never married, believing that it was his duty to remain upon his little farm and take care of a widowed mother and several sisters. We believe that when he passes from the stage of action he will hear the voice of St. Peter saying, "You have done what you could, come up higher."
From the May 22, 1912 Adair County News:
He Will Be Remembered.
Mr. John Bryant, who lives in the Ozark country, was in town a few days ago, looking a little feeble, but still able to step briskly. He is now seventy-nine years old. Twenty years ago he was the best rifle shot in Adair county, and had the reputation of killing more squirrels during the hunting season than any other one man. He never shot a squirrel in the body. If he could not get sight at the head, he waited for the opportunity, and never missed a shot. It would [be] a difficult matter for him to estimate the number of squirrels he has killed and sold on the market in this place, be he has certainly brought down several thousand. Mr. Bryant has lived an unpretentious life, but he has been strictly honorable in all his dealing with [his] fellow man. He never married, believing that it was his duty to remain upon his little farm and take care of a widowed mother and several sisters. We believe that when he passes from the stage of action he will hear the voice of St. Peter saying, "You have done what you could, come up higher."
A son of David and Sarah "Sallie" (Grider) Bryant, he was the firstborn of eleven children.
From the May 22, 1912 Adair County News:
He Will Be Remembered.
Mr. John Bryant, who lives in the Ozark country, was in town a few days ago, looking a little feeble, but still able to step briskly. He is now seventy-nine years old. Twenty years ago he was the best rifle shot in Adair county, and had the reputation of killing more squirrels during the hunting season than any other one man. He never shot a squirrel in the body. If he could not get sight at the head, he waited for the opportunity, and never missed a shot. It would [be] a difficult matter for him to estimate the number of squirrels he has killed and sold on the market in this place, be he has certainly brought down several thousand. Mr. Bryant has lived an unpretentious life, but he has been strictly honorable in all his dealing with [his] fellow man. He never married, believing that it was his duty to remain upon his little farm and take care of a widowed mother and several sisters. We believe that when he passes from the stage of action he will hear the voice of St. Peter saying, "You have done what you could, come up higher."
From the May 22, 1912 Adair County News:
He Will Be Remembered.
Mr. John Bryant, who lives in the Ozark country, was in town a few days ago, looking a little feeble, but still able to step briskly. He is now seventy-nine years old. Twenty years ago he was the best rifle shot in Adair county, and had the reputation of killing more squirrels during the hunting season than any other one man. He never shot a squirrel in the body. If he could not get sight at the head, he waited for the opportunity, and never missed a shot. It would [be] a difficult matter for him to estimate the number of squirrels he has killed and sold on the market in this place, be he has certainly brought down several thousand. Mr. Bryant has lived an unpretentious life, but he has been strictly honorable in all his dealing with [his] fellow man. He never married, believing that it was his duty to remain upon his little farm and take care of a widowed mother and several sisters. We believe that when he passes from the stage of action he will hear the voice of St. Peter saying, "You have done what you could, come up higher."
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