Family, LA, Winn, James ASA BRYANT

                     James ASA BRYANT and Sarah Bedgood BRYANT

LEWIS FRANKLIN BRYANT migrated to the colonies from Ireland about 1729. He left a
will made out to his wife and children in 1794, probably about the time of his
death. It was recorded in Kershaw district Co. S.C. in 1794. He and his wife had
these children: EDMOND BRYANT, LEWIS BRYANT, WILLIAM BRYANT, AMBROSE BRYANT,
RICHARD BRYANT, SUSANNAH BRYANT and HANNER BRYANT.

This Louisiana line descended from his son AMBROSE and his wife MARY BRYANT, of
S.C. AMBROSE migrated from S.C. to Monroe Co., Alabama about 1819-20. His children
were: LEWIS FRANKLIN BRYANT, SENTHA BRYANT, ASA B. BRYANT, TRAVIS BRYANT, JAMES
BRYANT and MARY BRYANT. Then from AMBROSE son, ASA B. BRYANT and his wife EMILEY C.
HICKS, daughter of JEREMIAH K. HICKS, came these 18 children, of Ala.: MARY AMANDA
BRYANT, SICILY BRYANT, ANNIE ANGELINA BRYANT, AMBROSE MADISON BRYANT, ASA JONES
BRYANT, JEREMIAH W. BRYANT, ARENA REBECCA BRYANT, NANCY BRYANT, JAMES B. BRYANT,
SEMENCIA LIVILLIA BRYANT, EDMOND BRYANT, SUSANNA E. BRYANT, ISAIAH BRYANT,
AUGUSTINE AMERICUNS BRYANT, HANNER BRYANT, SOFRONA NARCISSA BRYANT, and GOLDEN
DELANE LEBERT BRYANT.

ASA B. BRYANT was a cotton planter and owned many hundreds of acres of land in
Monroe County, Alabama. But the civil war took away the Bryant’s wealth in money
and slaves, and left him land poor. ASA B. (1800-1863) and Emily (1805-1875) were
both born in South Carolina and died in Alabama. ASA B.’s son ASA JONES BRYANT
(born 1829, Alabama - died 1869, Louisiana) was married to MARY DRUNETTA STEVENS on
April 12, 1853 in Alabama. She was from Georgia. ASA JONES BRYANT, AMBROSE MADISON
BRYANT and JEREMIAH W. BRYANT came to Louisiana in 1850.

JAMES ASA MADISON BRYANT (called Jim) born October 20, 1858, died December 29,
1928. He was born in Winn and died at Hargis, Louisiana in Grant Parish. He was
married to SARAH ELIZABETH ANN BEDGOOD, of Goldonna, Louisiana, on January 23,
1879. She was the daughter of JOHN BEDGOOD and SARAH TAYLOR. She was born February
22, 1859 and died April 4, 1926. JAMES ASA MADISON BRYANT had a brother that died
very young. His father, ASA JONES BRYANT, and uncle, AMBROSE MADISON BRYANT were
Civil War veterans. They enlisted at Monroe, Louisiana. ASA JONES BRYANT died soon
after the war and his brother AMBROSE MADISON BRYANT (called Mat) of Coldwater
raised his son JAMES ASA MADISON BRYANT.

JAMES ASA MADISON BRYANT and SARAH E. ANN BEDGOOD had ten children: JAMES WILLIAM
BRYANT, born October 15, 1881 in Winn Parish, died November 24, 1961 at Hargis,
married OLLIE MCLLWAIN; FANNIE BRYANT, who died very young; JOHN HENRY BRYANT, born
March 18, 1884, died January 18, 1957, Hargis, Louisiana, married AUDIE LOVELL;
GEORGE HARRISON BRYANT, born January, 1886, died May 14, 1906, Hargis — married
MINNIE BOX; LETHIA BRYANT, born September 19, 1888, died July 29, 1961 at
Winnfield, married RAY ALLEN; NIECIS BRYANT, born September 22, 1890, died February
23, 1975 at Pineville — married SIDNEY G. WILLIAMS; VISIE ELIZABETH BRYANT, born
September 1, 1894, died December 18, 1979 — married WILLIAM L. REEVES; JESSIE LEE
BRYANT, born September 1, 1896, died November 16, 1960 at Hargis — married ADDIE
LOU GATLIN; VIVIAN BRYANT, born December 8, 1899, died 1982 at Colfax — married JIM
JACKSON; and EDWARD DELEON BRYANT, born August 4, 1902, died February 1984, Hargis
— married LOTTIE BROWN.




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JAMES ASA and SARAH BRYANT’s eighth child, JESSIE LEE, and his wife, ADDIE LOU
GATLIN, had four children: HERSHEL LEE BRYANT, born April 28, 1918, married EDNA
MAE VAIL on October 5, 1940 at Atlanta, Louisiana in Winn Parish; J. W., born
November 15, 1920, married RUTH RACINE; BESSIE LOUISE, born November 6, 1925,
married OSCAR LONNIE YOUNG; DAVID GAIL, born December 18, 1939, married LAVERNE
CORMAN.

The oldest son of JESSIE LEE BRYANT and ADDIE LOU BRYANT was HERSHEL LEE BRYANT,
and he married EDNA M. VAIL and they had five children: GERALD LEE BRYANT, born
October 9, 1942, Winnfield — married LINDA ANN WILLIAM of Houston, Texas; LESSIE
MAE BRYANT, born December 6, 1943, Winnfield, married CHARLES S. CARPENTER,
Winnfield; WILLIAM DALE BRYANT, born January 1, 1950, Winnfield — married DEE
ORFANOS, New Jersey; MARY NELL BRYANT , born May 27, 1951, Winnfield — married
DAVID MERLE GODWIN, Natchitoches, Louisiana; JEFFERY LEN BRYANT, Born January 18,
1963, Winnfield, not married.

HERSHEL BRYANT and EDNA BRYANT have seven grandchildren: STACY BRYANT and WENDY
BRYANT; ROBIN CARPENTER, TROY CARPENTER and RANCE CARPENTER; and MICHELLE GODWIN
and SEAN GODWIN. They have one great-grandchild, TIFANY DAWN HAILEY, born July 28,
1983, the daughter of DAVID HAILEY and ROBIN CARPENTER HAILEY.

by EDNA MAE VAIL BRYANT




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