Bryants of Spartanburg Table of Contents Note..............................................................................3 Contents..........................................................................4 Abbreviations.....................................................................6 Preface...........................................................................7 1903 Interview..................................................................109 {} - Edits to original manuscript [] - Edits added during transcription ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg The Bryants of Spartanburg beginning with William Briant (c1751 VA - c1831 SC) by Jennings Bland Pope, Ph. D., C. P. A. #368A Jennings Bland Pope BIRTH: 17 Apr 1914 DEATH: 15 Apr 1983 (aged 68) BURIAL: Austin Memorial Park Cemetery Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA Copyright (c) 1980 J. Bland Pope, 8107 East, Court, Austin, TX 78759 ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg NOTE Note in the book of Bryants and Dillards, etc. there is a note written by Mozelle Ray to this effect. Jemima Dillard is the Sister of Harcaneous Dillard, who is the father of our William Frank Dillard. Jemima Dillard is the sister of Samuel Dillard, married to Elizabeth Reid, father of Judah, who is the first wife of William Frank Dillard who were first cousins, and they begat our great great grandmother, Nancy Caroline Dillard who married Samuel Burchfield, who begat our great grandmother Mary Elizabeth Burchfield, who married Charles David Harvey and they produced John Henry Thomas Harvey. William Frank Dillard was also married to Judah’s sister, (after Judah died) Sarah Elizabeth Dillard (first cousins) who begat our great grandmother, Martha Lucrese Dillard and her brothers and sisters. Martha Lucrese Dillard who married William T. Burchfield (commonly known as Billy By God) is the mother of our Martha Oma Burchfield Harvey. So, all in all, William Frank Dillard is the father of our great grandmothers on both sides and consequently this makes John Henry Thomas Harvey and Martha Oma Burchfield, (our grandparents) second cousins. Bryants of Spartanburg Jennings Bland Pope, Ph. D., C. P. A. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 1 CONTENTS Page Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Family group sheets - 101 William Briant 3 1744 1834 VA SC . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 102 Reuben Briant Sr. 4 1767 1863 VA SC . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 103 James Bryant 4 1774 1858 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 110 Johnston Briant 4 1787 1873 SC MS . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 111 Thomas Briant 4 1788 1860+ SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 113 William F. Briant 4 1789 1868 SC AL . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 116 William Tolleson Bryant 5 1796 1883 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 117 John Bryant 5 1797 SC TN AL . . . . . . . . . . 46 120 Eli Briant 5 1806 1881 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 121 Muse T. Bryant 5 1801 1851+ SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 122 James Briant 5 1809 1850+ SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 123 Capt Alfred Briant 5 1809 1872+ SC TN . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 128 Reuben Bryant Jr. 5 1803 1875 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 132 Joab Bryant 5 1811 1880 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 134 James Richardson Bryant 5 1817 186? SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 135 William G. Bryant 5 1809 1870+ SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 137 Marcus de Lafayette Bryant 5 1821 1898 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 144 Aaron Bryant 5 1817 1880+ SC AL MS . . . . . . . . . . 64 177 Alfred Tolleson Bryant 6 1829 1896 SC MS . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 178 Elmina Bryant 6 1833 1880+ SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 182 Nancy Bryant 6 1823 1903 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68a 183 Lucinda Catherine Bryant 6 1831 1906 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68b 196 Capt. Alfred B. Bryant 6 1827 1865 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68c 202 Turtulas L. Bryant 6 1839 1911 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68d 242 Ruhamah Bryant 6 1811 1901 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68e 248 James Richardson Bryant 6 1837 1903+ SC TN MS? TX . . . . . . . . 69 252 Thomas Dixon Bryant 6 1846 1909 SC TN AR . . . . . . . . . . 76 268 Louella Virginia Bryant 6 1862 189k SC MO . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 2 294 Ada Ola Bryant 7 1870 1955 OK AR OK . . . . . . . . . . 79 300 Canzada Jane Crocker 7 185k 1932 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 301 Basil Gatha Jonah Bryant 7 1858 1916 SC TX . . . . . . . . . . . 31 302 Elise Alice Bryant 7 1860 1930 SC? TX . . . . . . . . . . . 82 303 Mary Della Bryant 7 1861 1987 SC TX . . . . . . . . . . . 88 304 Emma Louise Bryant 7 1868 1989 TN TX . . . . . . . . . . . 85 305 Ella Belle Bryant 7 1871 1890 ? TX . . . . . . . . . . . 87 308 Electa Leona Bryant 7 ? ? TN 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 88 316 Ella Laura Cannon 7 1879 1989 MO . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 331 Thomas Boyd Coggins 8 1876 1950 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 356 Henry Washington Brooks 8 1877 1955 TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 357 William David Brooks 8 1882 1988 TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 358 Pearl Daisy Brooks 8 1855 1948 TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 360 Dean Edward Brooks 8 1892 1944 TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 361 Elmer Luther Brooks 8 1902 TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 368 Clinton Henry Pope 8 1887 1970 TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 368A Jennings Bland Pope 9 1918 TX OK AL GA CA TN TX . . . . 96 371 Calvin Pope 8 1891 TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 369 Sidney Lee Williams 8 1907 1969 MO IL . . . . . . . . . . . 97 399 Ruby Irene Coggins 9 1915 SC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 399A James Louis Reid 10 1935 SC GA AL SC . . . . . . . . 98 407 Truman Oscar Brooks 9 1913 TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 408 Edith Marie Brooks 9 1915 TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 410 Frances Ann Brooks 9 1926 TX AR . . . . . . . . . . . 101 1903 Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Mrs A. B. Brooks' charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Allied families' group sheets (Dillard, Kirby, Tolleson) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 3 ABBREVIATIONS b born bro brother(s) c circa cem cemetery ch child, etc co county d died, etc D-Bk Deed Book dau daughter(s) desc descendant(s) (f) female fam family g great, grand h husband (l/h, 2/h) hh household hhh head of hh m married (m) male p page prob probably sis sister(s) w wife (l/w, 2/w) Notes (1) A child's number with + beside the number indicates there is a separate group sheet on this child. This manuscript/typescript is Xeroxed on 20 lb 100% cotton paper to prevent fading. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 4 PREFACE Prior to c1850, this family was generally referred to as Briant; thereafter, as Briant. The family is believed to be Scotch-Irish, and to have drifted down via VA to the Carolina: from PA, although the only evidence on this score is that William (101) and his son Reuben Sr. (102) were born in VA, before going to the (now) Pacolet, Spartanburg County, SC, area 1768-1774. The family remained in the Pacolet area for a century, but during Reconstruction following the Civil War many members left for TN, MO, AL, HS, TX and probably other locations. The purpose of this manuscript / typescript is to preserve results (so far) and record status of the search being conducted by myself and the other searchers named below. Although the search is not Complete, I sense that further effort is not justified until additional records are discovered and/or published. Copies of this manuscript are being placed in Spartanburg County Library, in South Caroliniana Library, and in TX St Lib to preserve info already known. Even this limited distribution will prevent loss by fire and may attract additional info and encourage research by other family members. This search required a year of my time. I was unable to really get started until the 1900 census records became available at TX St Lib early in 1979, because the info on the 1880 census for my great uncles and aunts was so in complete an; contradictory that I could not determine where the early children of my gr- grandfather (J. R. Bryant, #248) were born. The 1900 census cleared up the fact that they were born in SC. Family tradition was that he (J. R.) had been in the Civil War and lost a finger. SC Archives reported only one J. R. that survived the war; he had lost a finger; and he enlisted at Spartanburg Court House. Early marriages for that locality were published in 1977, so ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 5 J. R.'s marriage date was found. I already knew (from family members) who J. R. married (His: A. Adaline Patterson), and I had visited her grave in Georgetown, but there was no gravestone there for J. R. He remarried after Adeline died, and I have not been able to find his grave. By this time in the search, I had learned J. R.'s full name (James Richardson Bryant) from the Bible of his daughter, Mary Della (Bryant) Brooks. Contact with Dr. Reid and Mrs. Williams came via my queries in Genealogical Helper and Bulletin of Old Tryon Genealogical Society. and then the information came to me rapidly. Much or the information recorded here was given me by others, as is shown on the family group sheets: 1. Dr. James L. Reid, Route 1, Campobello, SC 29322, shown as #399A on Page 98. For example, he connected my 3g father with my 4g father, using three documents in estate papers of an entirely different family, the Wilkins family. Dr. Reid and Mrs. Williams provided copies of the 1903 Interview (p. 102). 2. Mrs. Margaret V. Williams, 211 N. Bluff Rd, F-10, Collinsville, IL 62234, whose husband descended from the Bryants. See #389 on page 97. 3. (Professional) Mrs. Ceress Newell, 229 Maxine Drive, Spartanburg, SC 29302 provided info from secondary sources, cemeteries, and courthouses. 4. Mrs. Virginia S. Fowler, Rt. 8, Box 699A, Gaffney, SC 29430, whose husband, Mr. W. R., is descended from Lucinda Catherine Bryant #183, was contacted just as I went to press. She provided additional info (see the group sheets she compiled at pages 68a and 63b), particularly the birth date (1823) of the 1903 interviewee Nancy (Bryant) Brown #182. This 1823 b date showed it was possible for her as 3 ch to have seen #101 William if he had died c1834. The 1834 would fit well with a c1741 birth date for #101 William (to make him a year older than his wife) and thus allow him to be the father (not brother) of Reuben Sr; that relationship had been one of the big puzzles. Further, this pretty well rules out (as being #101 William) the patriot William (of Edgefield) that Bloomfield Bryant #282 used in his 1926 S. A. R. application. 5. Others who prepared family group sheets or supplied info for them are noted on the individual group sheets. For an understanding of the Scotch-Irish migration from lowland Scotland to Ulster then America (primarily via PA), see: (1) The Scotch-Irish, a Social History, by James G. Leyburn, U of NC Press, 1962; (2) The Scotch-Irish in America by Henry Jones Ford, Arno Press and the NY Times 1969; (3) Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America, by Charles Knowles Bolton, 1910 reprint 1977 by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore; and (4) The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania, by Waland F. Dunaway (19th), Gene. Pub. Co. 1979. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 6 To relate the migration of the Briant / Bryant family to the whole migration picture see westward Expansion, A History of the American Frontier, by Ray Allen Billington, 4th ed, 1974, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. NY For map: of the Major battles the family members participated in during Revolutionary War and Civil War, see The American Heritage Pictorial Atlas of United States History, 1966. North Carolina in the American Revolution, by Hugh F. Rankin, 4th printing 1975 pub by Division of Archives and History, NC, contains the following map that is helpful in locating Pacolet in relation to the southern back country battles that turned the tide against the British in the late years of the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Cowpens was fought a few miles northeast of Pacolet. {MAP} ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 7 Research in records re 18th century Spartanburg County SC is complicated by NC - SC boundary line uncertainties. Tryon Co., NC was created 1763/1769 out of Mecklenburg Co., and until 1772 included all or part of Spartanburg and other counties now in northern SC. By that time, land in the area had been granted by both NC and SC for almost a quarter century. Until 1733, all SC Property records (including land grants) were kept in Charleston. NC land grant records are in the Secy of State Office in Raleigh. In 1772 the NC - SC line was moved north, and this area became part of Ninety Six District SC, and until 1783 the land-transfer records were at Cambridge (since moved to Abbeville where they later burned.) From 1783 to 1735 the area was still in Ninety Six District, but with the records being at Pinckneyville (now they have been moved to Union.) After 1785 the old probate records were in Spartanburg until mid-1900’s when they were moved to SC Archives to save them from destruction by the space-shy county, which has subsequently built adequate quarters and is now trying to get the records back from the Archives. Spartanburg Co. will, for a fee, supply a copy of their deed indexes on the Bryant family. This search encountered some problems peculiar to Spartanburg Co. The 1850 enumeration was especially peer and incomplete. Additionally, the computerized index available to me for the 1850 census Omitted an extraordinary number of families. 8 out of 12 Briant / Bryant families were omitted. Re Spartanburg County, SC, see History of Spartanburg County, by J. B. O. Landrum, 1900, reprint 1977 by The Reprint Company, Spartanburg. It lacks an index. Bryants are mentioned on pages 122, 370, 372, 374, 595, 649, 663, 677, 683, 691, 707, 708, 718. Dillards are mentioned on pages 678, 679, 681, 706, 708. Kirbys are mentioned on 34, 37, 55, 56, 57, 120, 122, 530, 676, 682, 687, 689, 691, 695, 696, 703, 708. Tollesons are mentioned on 33, 34, 35, 36, 121, 365, 652, 663, 697, 709, 710, 711. Stewart on 122. Wilkins on 364-369, 370, 373 (2), 488, 655, 686, 689, 701, 719. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 8 One important source is the "1903 interview" (page 102). There are several versions of this floating around, widely distributed, none known to be complete or accurate. The interview was given by Nancy (Bryant) Brown, b 1823, #182 dau of William Tolleson Bryant (#116) son of Reuben Sr. (#102) son of 1741 William (#101). The information was recorded by W. F. Bryant (#280) son of Mark (#137) son of 1774 James (#103) son of 1741 William (#101). The interview is the source of the names of many of the early Briant Hives. This search group benefited by much research done in the mid-1900’s by two unrelated Mrs. Brookses: 1. Mrs. Anna (Black) Brooks evidently did the most work, working primarily in courthouses. Upon her death, her papers went to the other Mrs. Brooks. Mrs. A. B. Brooks was desc from Emily Bryant (#281) dau of Mark (#137) son of 1774. James (#103) son of 1741 William (#101). Mrs. A. B. Brooks prepared a set of family group charts in English chart tom. Some of the placements of the children on the charts were incorrect (this search group thinks), but there is no reason to doubt the accuracy of the wives' names. 2. Mrs. Della (White) Brooks Listed cemetery gravestones. She died in the fall of 1978. Mrs. William and I made a quick survey of early Briant / Bryants in VA, and found that there Here Williams, Jameses, and Johns whenever there were Brian / Briant / Bryan / Bryant families, with no way to distinguish them. People by these names (as shown by early censuses, marriages, probates) were scattered all over Virginia, but tended to be in the valley rather than along the coast, thus leading to belief that most drifted down from PA. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 9 The family group sheets herein should not be accepted as 100% accurate without checking, as some of the older families were put together by members of this search group without benefit of estate settlement or other legal documents, relying on census records and secondary sources. My own line is proved with legal documents back thru James Bryant (1774-1858) (#103), but the connection of this James to William Briant (#101) is based on secondary sources and circumstantial evidence. As a supplement, there are family group sheets of a few of the early allied families: John Tolleson, Joseph Dillard, and William Terry Kirby. In this manuscript / typescript, we are attempting to preserve for future searchers the best currently available family group sheets for as many as possible of the Briants / Bryants who grew up and left home before the 1850 census. (That was the first census to list the names of all members of the household, and thus provide connections between generations.) Some group sheets of later periods are included in order to come down to members of the search group and a few other living Bryant descendants who have shown some interest in the project. Some manuscripts mentioned herein but not reproduced here are believed to be in Spartanburg County Library: Little Tex; Pacolet by Mrs. A. B. Brooks. J. B. P. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 1O 101 William Briant (c1741-c1834) is probably a 3d generation American, so he will be shown with a raised 3 after his name; each of his ch will have a 4. He will be numbered 101, thus leaving 100 numbers for generations one and two in case they are identified later. #101 () ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER NAME | William Bryant 3 (VII) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER NAME | Sarah Tolleson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GROUP NO. 6/4 | BIRTH | MARRIED | DEATH | BURIAL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER DATE | c 1741 | c 1765 | c 1834 | PLACE | VA | SC | Spartan. SC | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER DATE | c 1742 | | c 1836 | PLACE | | | Spartan. SC | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reuben Jr. 102+ | c 1767/8 | c 1790 | 1863 | Nancy Tolleson | VA | Spartan. SC | Spartan. SC | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James (VI) 103+ | c 1774 | | | Gemima Dillard | 96 Dist SC | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Judith 104 | c 1770 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruth 104 | c 1771 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ann 105 | c 1773 | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nancy 106 | c 1789/90 | | | (twin to William) | 96 Dist SC | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martha 107 | c 1777 | | | | 96 Dist SC | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Isham 108 | c 1779 | | | | 96 Dist SC | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sarah 109 | c 1784 | | | | 96 Dist SC | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 11 continued ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Johnston 110+ | c 1787 | c 1810 | | Dorcas Dillard | Spartan. SC | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas 111+ | c 1788 | | | Narcissa Camp | Spartan. SC | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 112 | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- William F. 113+ | c 1789/90 | c 1811 | 1864 Mar | Delilah Dillard | Spartan. SC | Spartan. SC | Calhoun AL | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 12 101 Sources re William Briant (1) The 1903 interview (see page 102) implies that #101 William married Sallie in SC. But, Reuben Sr. #102 was born in VA! Possibilities: a. Sallie may have been 2/w for William This theory permits the Tollesons to have come up from SC coast rather than via PA and V3. The 1903 interview indicates they came rich, so such a route is likely b. Sallie Tolleson's father (believed to be Erasmus Tolleson) may have come thru VA to SC (however, no tracks have been found, so far, for him in VA). (2) James birth: 1774 per 1903 interview. 1769/70 per 1850 census. (10) Per 1903 interview. (11) His b est: 1863 - 95 = 1768 - 1 = 1767. The 95 is used because 1903 interview said he was 90 odd yr old when he died. (12) She was born after 1736 according to 1903 interview: she died c1836 and was almost 100. (13) Per 1903 interview. (14) Per Mrs. A. B. Brooks’ chart, pg. 110 (17) Bloomfield Bryant's #282, S. A. R. application. (Note: much of the info comes from the 1903 interview.) William Briant, #101 is believed to be the progenitor of most or all of the early Briants / Bryants in the Pacolet and Pacolet Hills area near Spartanburg in Spartanburg Co., SC. However, no legal documentation of this relationship has been found. The belief rests on the following: 1. The 1903 interview (identified in Preface) states: John Tolleson's daughter (sic--sister?), Sallie Tolleson, married William Bryant, who cane from Virginia, and became the mother o£ the direct line of the Bryant family of upper South Carolina. Lived nearly one hundred years and died at Uncle Rueben Bryant's about 1836. William Bryant came to Buzzard Roost from Virginia, married Sallie Tolleson, daughter (sic) of John Tolleson, by which marriage eleven children were born. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 13 William Bryant fought in the Revolutionary war. Was in Battle of Cowpens and also at Morganton. Fought during entire war. William Bryant was of Scotch-Irish descent. Another version or the 1903 interview states: Her great-grandfather Bryant was old when Mrs. Brown was a child. She does not remember his name. He was lame as she remembers him and the Tories would carry him off to their camps and keep him several days at a time. Her great-grandmother she remembers. She does not recall her name before marriage. Her given name was Millie (sic). {Sallie?} 2. William is listed in the Spartanburg Co., SC censuses from 1790 thru 1820, and was the only possibility. Herewith p. 18-27 are extracts from the censuses of 1790 thru 1840. It is not certain exactly when William came to SC from VA. The 1903 interview states that his son James was born "1774 near Trough Shoals, lately known as Pacolet Hills." 1850 census confirms that both James and his wife "Jaminia" were born in SC. Reuben Sr. was born in VA - see his group sheet - 1767/1768. The conclusion to be drawn from these facts is that William cane to SC by 1774, and that the move was made 1767-l774. The 1903 interview does not list all of William's ch, only James. William's group sheet was constructed from noting when the various Briant men (with young families) came onto the census as head of household. The Buzzard Roost mentioned above was later called Bryantville and is now called Pacolet. This search group is mystified by its inability to find early grants and deeds for #101 William, in either NC or SC records. The problems of locating records for the period of William's arrival at Buzzard Roost and Trough Shoals are discussed in the Preface. The earliest land record found for William is a grantee deed in Spartanburg Co., in 1826. (D-Bk V-320). It was not recorded until 1834. What triggered the recording? Possibly the death of William? Union County deed records show ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 14 a William Bryant (various spellings) selling land beginning in 1785, but there is no known way to tell if this is #101 William. If it is, then his wife was named Gilead (not Sarah Tolleson) and his father was Philip who was granted the land by so in 1773. See D-Bk A, p. 312 and D-Bk B-351. This searcher doubts if the Union County William is #101 William, but Philip could easily be an uncle of William #101. Deed and probate records of Union and Greenville Counties show the presence in those two counties, at early date, of Bryants (various spellings), but there is nothing to connect them to 1741 William. Indeed, there are so many diff Bryant families (various spellings) in Spartanburg and surrounding counties before 1800, many with familiar given names of William, Janna, and John that it is highly unlikely that estate papers will ever be found (in VA or anywhere else) to definitely identify the parents of 1741 William. Land entry records for SC prior to 1783 are in Office of Register of Mesne Conveyance, County Office Building, 2 Courthouse Square, Charleston, SC. This office reports (by mail) no Briant / Bryant grants prior to 1783, but no member of this search group has been to Charleston to check personally. SC Archives in Columbia reports (by mail) having nine state grants before 1802 to William Bryant, but "none … in the Spartanburg area". No member of this search group has checked this personally in Columbia. NC colonial grants are filed in Raleigh in Dept of Secy of State. This office found no Briant / Bryant grants in the counties of Rutherford, Burke, Tryon, Rowan, Anson, or Mecklenburg. This leads to conclusion that William did not obtain a NC grant prior to the 1772 transfer of the (now) Pacolet area to SC. of course, he may have bought from somebody already there. However, the Tryon and Mecklenburg deeds have been examined by Miss Ann Keener, Rt 1, Box 315, Denver, NC, 28037 (a very competent professional researcher), with no results. (She examined, ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 15 too, at NC Archives, the estate papers for Mecklenburg Co., Lincoln Co., and Rutherford Co. Further, she examined marriage bonds at Tryon/Lincoln.) The military records concerning William's Revolutionary War service are almost as mystifying as the land records, but at least there are some records to ponder over. The 1903 interview states that William fought through the entire war, but does not specify either Continental Line or militia service. Because of the confused recruiting practices, he could have been in either the Continentals or the militia of either NC or SC. This search group has not yet accepted Bloomfield Bryant's (#282) choice of ancestor in his 1926 Sons of American Revolution application which states, "private NC Troops pensioned" and "Pension Rolls, Washington, DC, Mar 24 1919" (means 1819). The app states, further: William Bryant was a Revolutionary soldier belonging to the North Carolina Continental line, (militia as private.) Placed on pension roll March 24, 1819 from Edgefield District, SC. Later we find him - Spartanburg District, buying land from Nehemiah Norton on Dec. 19th, 1826. William Bryant was in battle of Cowpens under Daniel Morgan and fought during entire war. Bureau of Pensions, Washington, DC Land transfers in Spartanburg Court House, also first Census taken on April 15, 1791. Record show he entered the army August 3rd 1776. This search group does not understand why #101 William would be in Edgefield in 1519, because his ch were in Spartanburg Co., and the older generation did not usually move off and leave the ch - it was the other way around. This search group has not found a record of William entering the army on August 3rd 1776. Info from National Archives shows that six years after Bloomfield filed his S. A. R. app he was still trying to satisfy himself as to his identification of which William was his ancestor: a 1932 letter from National Archives to Bloomfield concerning a William born c1752 and enlisting in Orangeburg is in pension file #S39,215. To quote from the 1932 letter to Bloomfield: The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S. 39215 … William Bryant enlisted, date not given, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, served as a private in Captain John P. Williams Company, Colonel Buncombe's fifth North Carolina Regiment, and was discharged in the winter of 1779, after serving two and one-half years. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 16 He was in the battle of Brandywine where he was wounded by a shot in the left hand. He was allowed pension on his application executed July 22, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-six years and resided in Edgefield District, South Carolina. Part of that record can be reconciled with info available on William #101. He could have been in the NC Continental Line until winter of 1779, thus getting cut in time to avoid the capture of all the active NC Continentals at Charleston a few months later. After that, he would likely have been in the SC militia participating in the Battle of Cowpens a few miles from his home. The Edgefield residence in 1815 is not understood, however, and the age gives a problem. If he was 66 in 1813, then he was born c1752 rather than c1741 (see page 5). He would be too young to he the father of Reuben Sr. #102. That William’s militia service is documented by audited acct. 865, pp. 1g B in SC Archives for militia service after reduction of Charleston, in Colonel Anderson’s unit. The Battle of Cowpens referred to above is described in: 1. The Battle of Cowpens: the great morale-builder, by Kenneth Roberts, pub. by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY 1958. 2. The American Heritage Pictorial Atlas of United States History, 1966. William #101 may be the William Bryant mentioned in Stub Entries to Indents for Revolutionary Claims, Vol. U-W, ed. by G. S. Salley, Jr., number 182 Bk U, 8 July 1785, £5.13.6 3 farthings for duty done in militia as per acct. audited - principal £5.15.6¾ annual interest £0.8.3. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 17 For an understanding of conditions in upland SC and NC during the later years of the Revolutionary War, when the scene of conflict shifted (after France entered the war) from Philadelphia and NY to the South, see (1) King's Mountain and its Heroes, by Lyman C. Draper, 1881, reprint 1978 by Genealogical Pub Co., Halt, and (2) Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upper South Carolina, by J. B. O. Landrum, (1897) reprint 1977 by The Reprint Company, Spartanburg SC. For an understanding of the Continental Line and the militia, in both NC and SC, see The North Carolina Continentals, by Hugh F. Rankin, U of NC press, 1971. For an excellent abbreviated version, see North Carolina in the American Revolution, by Hugh F. Rankin: pub. by NC Division of Archives and History, Raleigh. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 18 1790 SC 16 UN HEAD UP 16 PAGE NOTES --FWM-- FWF OTHR SLAV ===========================================================+====+====+===+====+==== Briand, Reuben #102 | 1| 0| 1| 0| 0 87 Spartanburg Co. | | | | | -----------------------------------------------------------+ ---+----+---+----+---- Briant, William #101 | 2| 4| 7| 0| 0 87 Spartanburg Co. | | | | | -----------------------------------------------------------+ ---+----+---+----+---- Briant, William | 1| 2| 2| 0| 0 42 Union Co. | | | | | -----------------------------------------------------------+ ---+----+---+----+---- Bryan, James | 1| 0| 2| 0| 0 69 Greenville Co. | | | | | -----------------------------------------------------------+ ---+----+---+----+---- Bryan, Richard | 2| 1| 6| 0| 1 69 Greenville Co. | | | | | -----------------------------------------------------------+ ---+----+---+----+---- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 19 1800 STATE HEAD M 0 10 16 26 45 -SLAV -FREE PAGE LINE F 9 15 25 44 UP EMPLOY M F M F ===============================================+==+==+==+==+==+========+==+==+==+== Briant, Reuben #102 | 2| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 171 Spartanburg Co. | 2| 0| 1| 1| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, William (VII) #101 | 0| 2| 1| 1| 1| | | | | 172 Spartanburg Co. | 0| 1| 1| 0| 1| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, John | 1| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 267 Greenville Co. | 1| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Nancy | 1| 0| 0| 0| 0| | | | | 267 Greenville Co. | 1| 1| 0| 1| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, John | 1| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | 216 Union Co. | 3| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, Richard | 3| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | 267 Greenville Co. | 3| 1| 3| 0| 1| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, Wilhass | 2| 2| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 216 Union Co. | 2| 0| 1| 1| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, James | 1| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | Pendleton Co. | 4| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- (1) Could be a brother of VII William (3) John Briant probably son of Union Co. William ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 20 1810 SC HEAD M 0 10 16 26 45 -SLAV -FREE PAGE LINE F 9 15 25 44 UP EMPLOY M F M F ===============================================+==+==+==+==+==+========+==+==+==+== Brian, Reuben #102 | 4| 2| 0| 1| 1| | | | | 201 Spartanburg Co. | 2| 1| 1| 0| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, Johnston #110 | 0| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | 250 Spartanburg Co. | 1| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Brian, William (VII) #101 | 0| 0| 1| 0| 1| | | | | 201 Spartanburg Co. | 1| 1| 0| 0| 1| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, James (VI) #103 | 3| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 201 Spartanburg Co. | 2| 1| 1| 0| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Wilkins, Samuel | 0| 1| 0| 0| 1| | | | | 266 Spartanburg Co. | 1| 0| 0| 0| 2| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Tolleson, John | 2| 1| 0| 0| 1| | | | | 201 Spartanburg Co. | 1| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Tolleson, Eli | 1| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | 201 Spartanburg Co. | 0| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Tolleson, Stephen | 0| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | 201 Spartanburg Co. | 0| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Dillard, James | 1| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | 201 Spartanburg Co. | 1| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Brian, William | | | | | | | | | | 148 Pendleton Co. | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Patterson, William | | | | | | | | | | 202 Pendleton Co. | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, John | | | | | | | | | | 149 Pendleton Co. | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Nathan | | | | | | | | | | 149 Pendleton Co. | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Nedom {Needham} | | | | | | | | | | 149 Pendleton Co. | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Starling | | | | | | | | | | 159 Pendleton Co. | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Aaron | | | | | | | | | | 159 Pendleton Co. | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 20 Continued 1810 SC HEAD M 0 10 16 26 45 -SLAV -FREE PAGE LINE F 9 15 25 44 UP EMPLOY M F M F ===============================================+==+==+==+==+==+========+==+==+==+== Bryant, Elizabeth | | | | | | | | | | 59 Laurens | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, James | | | | | | | | | | 34 Laurens | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 21 1820 SC HEAD M 0 10 16 16 26 45 -SLAV -FREE PAGE LINE F 9 15 18 25 44 UP EMPLOY M F M F ============================================+==+==+==+==+==+==+========+==+==+==+== Brian, William F. #113| 0| 0| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 282 Spartanburg Co. | 0| 0| | 2| 0| 0| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Brian, Thomas #111| 0| 0| 1| 1| 0| 0| | | | | 237 Spartanburg Co. | 0| 0| | 1| 0| 0| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant #102| 2| 3| 1| 2| 0| 1| | | | | 282 Spartanburg Co. | 1| 0| | 0| 1| 0| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant #101| 3| 0| 0| 0| 1| 1| | | | | 282 Spartanburg Co. | 1| 0| | 1| 0| 1| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, James (VI) #103| 3| 3| 0| 0| 0| 1| | | | | 264 Spartanburg Co. | 0| 0| | 1| 1| 1| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, Johnston #110| 4| 0| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 264 Spartanburg Co. | 1| 1| | 1| 0| 0| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 22 1820 SC HEAD M 0 10 16 16 26 45 -SLAV -FREE PAGE LINE F 9 15 18 25 44 UP EMPLOY M F M F ============================================+==+==+==+==+==+==+========+==+==+==+== Briant, James | 0| 1| 1| 2| 0| 1| | | | | 221 Pendleton Co. | 0| 1| | 2| 0| 1| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, John | 1| 2| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 194 Pendleton Co. | 3| 0| | 0| 1| 0| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, John Jr. | 0| 3| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 225 Pendleton Co. | 3| 0| | 0| 1| 0| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, Nathan | 2| 2| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 225 Pendleton Co. | 2| 1| | 1| 0| 0| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, Needham | 2| 1| 1| 2| 1| 0| | | | | 225 Pendleton Co. | 0| 1| | 1| 0| 1| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, Sterling | 3| 0| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 211 Pendleton Co. | 1| 0| | 0| 1| 1| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Briant, Thomas | 2| 0| 0| 1| 0| 0| | | | | 169 Pendleton Co. | 0| 0| | 1| 0| 0| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryan, John | 0| 0| 0| 0| 1| 0| | | | | 13 Laurens Co. | 0| 0| | 1| 0| 1| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Charles | 2| 1| 1| 2| 1| 0| | | | | 97 Greenville | 0| 1| | 1| 0| 1| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, John | 3| 2| 1| 1| 0| 1| | | | | 145 Union Co. | 2| 1| | 2| 0| 1| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Zachariah | 2| 0| 0| 1| 1| 1| | | | | 119 Union Co. | 1| 0| | 1| 0| 0| | | | | --------------------------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+--+--+--+-- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 23 1830 SC ------SLAVE------ HEAD M 0 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 0 10 24 36 55 00 PAGE LINE F 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 UP 10 24 36 55 00 UP ==========================+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+== | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Charles | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Greenville Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, James | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, James | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Johnson | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, John | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, John | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, John | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Reuben | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Thomas | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Tricy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, William | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, William T. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Reuben Sr. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Muse | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 24 1840 SC ------SLAVE------ HEAD M 0 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 0 10 24 36 55 00 PAGE LINE F 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 UP 10 24 36 55 00 UP ==========================+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+== Briant, James | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, James | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Robert | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, John | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Richardson | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Eli | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Reuben Jr. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Reuben | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Thomas | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, William T. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, William | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 25 1840 SC ------SLAVE------ HEAD M 0 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 0 10 24 36 55 00 PAGE LINE F 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 UP 10 24 36 55 00 UP ==========================+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+== Bryant, Aaron | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, John | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Teril / Levil | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Muse | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, William F. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spartanburg Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 26 1840 SC ------SLAVE------ HEAD M 0 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 0 10 24 36 55 00 PAGE LINE F 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 UP 10 24 36 55 00 UP ==========================+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+== Brian, Greenbury | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Union Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Hardy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anderson Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, John | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anderson Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Nathaniel | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anderson Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Simeon | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anderson Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Briant, Terrell | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anderson Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryan, Margaret | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Laurens Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, George | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Greenville Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Isham | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pickens Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, James | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pickens Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Jesse | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anderson Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Jesse | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pickens Co. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 27 1840 SC ------SLAVE------ HEAD M 0 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 0 10 24 36 55 00 PAGE LINE F 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 UP 10 24 36 55 00 UP ==========================+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+== Bryant, Joab (V) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, John | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, John D. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Johnston | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Moses | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Mrs. ? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Nancy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Richard | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- Bryant, Thomas | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 28 #102 (Reuben, William) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER NAME | Reuben Briant Sr. 4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER NAME | Nancy Tolleson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GROUP NO. | BIRTH | MARRIED | DEATH | BURIAL -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- FATHER DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- MOTHER DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Elizabeth Briant | | | | m. John Harrey | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Charlotte Briant | | | | m. William Kindley | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- William Tolleson Briant | | | | Lucinda Kirby | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- John Briant | | | | 1. Barbara Mitchell | | | | 2. Mary Polly Quinn | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Mary Briant | | | | William B. Harvey | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Sarah Briant | | | | Wright Kirby | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Eli Briant | | | | Sarah Brown | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Muse Briant | | | | Jemima Littlejohn | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- James Briant | | | | Mary Quinn | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Alfred Briant | | | | Mary Stone | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 29 #102 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER NAME | Reuben Briant Sr. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER NAME | Sally Whidley (Whitley) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GROUP NO. | BIRTH | MARRIED | DEATH | BURIAL -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- FATHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- MOTHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Thomas Reid Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Berriman Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- David Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Nancy Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 30 #102 (VI) Reuben Briant Sr. Source & Info 1. Deposition by Amy DeHart Tolleson on record in Spartanburg Co. Court of Equity (Box 6, package 1, date 1725) in SC Archives per James Reid. [SC Archives can’t find the document] 2. Sarah Tolleson as wife of William Briant: See 1903 interview 3. Per 1903 interview 4. Estimated birth dates taken from census, various years, but she would be young to marry in 1790. 5. Must have been born in Spartanburg Co. because the family was already there by 1790 census. 6. Eli marriage see 1830 census, a child born 1827, could have been earlier. 7. Muse marriage see 1830 census, a child born 1825, could have been earlier. 8. James marriage see 1830 census, a child born 1834, could have been earlier. 9. William marriage see 1830 census, a child born 1825, could have been earlier. 10. His will proved 5-15-1863 11. Marriage to William T. was 2-Aug-1826 per Mrs. Williams, but see 5. 12. Per Mrs. William 13. Per Mrs. Anne R. Bruce, 1903 Scenic Dr., Alamogordo, NM, 88310 who sites partition of John Tolleson estate. 14. Per Mrs. Bruce 15. 1903 interview of Nancy Brown 16. 17. Reuben VA birth is mentioned in writings of Alfort Briant on p. 747 of “Tennessee Cousins” by Worth S. Ray, Genealogy Publishing Co. 1950 [Also some census say VA, e.g. 1850 Spartanburg] 18. Godspeed, “History of West Tennessee” 19. Her name was probably Melberry & she was probably the one mentioned in Spartanburg D-Bk I-68 27-Aug-17x5 20. Polly married William Harvey according to partition of John Tolleson estate according to copy sent by Mrs. Bruce [The Polly who married William Barnes was dau. of VI James per 1903 interview – notes by A. B. Bryant] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 30 continued 21. 22. Per 1903 interview as sent by Dr. Reid 23. Dr. Reid thinks this might be McKinney, so does Mrs. Fowler. 24. Per Mrs. A. B Brooks chart 25. Mrs. Virginia Fowler says marriage 5-Sep-1869 in Spartanburg to Susan Coleman. 26. p. 31 indicates she died at 35 in 1813, indicating birth was in 1778, I suspect it was close to 1770. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 31 #102 Reuben Bryant Sr.: He appeared in censuses from 1790 thru 1860, so there is not much doubt that he was born 1767/1768. That he was born in VA is shown by the following: 1. Both 1850 and 1860 censuses show VA. 2. Information from Godspeed “History of West Tennessee” ca 1898 by unknown copyist says: (see page 53) Alfred Briant … was born in Spartanburgh Dist., SC 1809, and is the son of Reuben and Nancy (Tolerson) Briant. The father was of Irish (Sic) descent, he was born in Virginia, and followed farming. In his youth he went to SC, where he married and remained until his career ended. He died at the advanced age of 101 years, about 1870. His wife, Nancy Tolerson, was born in SC, she died in 1813, at the age of about 35. By this union they had 10 children. Mr. Briant was married 3 times, and was the father of 14 children. 3. The 1903 interview says: Grandser Bryant married as second wife Sallie Whidley … Great(sic) Grandfather Reuben Bryant had by his second marriage three boys and one girl … Reuben's second wife was a Whidley. Another version says: Grandsar Bryant was named Reuben (Sr - J39). He died about 1861 (sic) - 90 odd years of age. He married Nancy Tolleson, daughter of John Tolleson. Reuben Bryant's children by Nancy Tolleson were: William T., John, Eli, Alfred and Muse Bryant, Betsy, Polly, Sallie and Charlotte. (Note that this leaves out James b 1609 married Polly Quinn - JEP) Reuben Bryant's second wife was Sally Whidley, by whom were Tom, Berriman, Dave and Nancy. Third wife, Nancy [Wyatt] Wiott - no children. The earliest land record found for any of the Briants is a 1793 SC grant to Rubin Briant on Pacolet River, District of Pinckney in Spartanburg County, 640 ac, Reference - SC Archives, State Plats, Vol. 32, 1792-96, page 132. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 32 #102 The earliest grantee deed in Spartanburg Co., that is clearly related to this family of Briants is an 1806 deed for land on Pacolet River to Reuben Sr from John Easterwood. (D-Bk L-59) The earliest grantor deed of the family in Spartanburg Co., is sale by Reuben Sr of 640 ac on Pacolet River to Peter Peterson in 1795. (O-Bk 3- 67) This is evidently the same 640 acres granted Rubin Briant surveyed for him 8- Aug-1793 (that surveyed land adjoined Peter Peterson's land). Reuben Sr's Hill is in SC Archives, Spartanburg County Estates, filo 3&0, 1363; proved 1863, signed with a mark. The only ch mentioned, and the only hair, was son Eli; will signed 17 Dec 1855. The list of Reuben Sr's ch is well documented. That is to say, Dr. Reid has seen the documentation on microfilm, though the 5C Archives has been unable to identify the document in a big file so as to prepare a xerographic copy. Dr. Reid wrote on 19 June 1979: My documentation is a deposition by Amy (DeHart) Tolleson on record in the Spartanburg County Court of Equity (Box 6 Package 1, date 1825). These records are now at the SC State Archives in Columbia. Amy DeHart was the estranged wife of John Tolleson, who according to her own statement, was given to drunkaness and who abused her often. She separated from him and moved to Greenville County. During this time, John Tolleson began living with Polly Smith, and he kept on begetting offspring. These latter off- spring were considered to be illegitimate by Amy, at least, and to bar then from her husband's estate was the intent of her deposition. John Tolleson died some time in 1820, but his daughter, Nancy (Tolleson) Briant, wife of Reuben Sr, died before John did. This latter circumstance allowed for the opportunity for Amy (DeHart) Tolleson to list her grandchildren by her daughter Nancy (Tolleson) Briant. Wb therefore have a record preserved of the children of Reuben and Nancy, as well as all the children of John Tolleson and Amy DeHart. The document is supposed to be in Spartanburg County Probate - John Tolleson Estate Papers - file No. 2033 (Muse Tolleson, Ex.) May 30, 1821. The different versions of the 1903 interview are not consistent in listing as a child of Reuben Sr the James born 1809 who married Polly Quinn. However, both versions include James on at least one list of Reuben Sr's ch. The Tolleson ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 33 #102 deposition lists James, according to Dr. Reid who has soon the deposition on microfilm. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 34 #103 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER NAME | James R. Bryant (VI) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER NAME | Jemima Dillard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GROUP NO. | BIRTH | MARRIED | DEATH | BURIAL -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- FATHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- MOTHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Reuben Bryant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Mary Bryant | | | | William Barnett | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- John Bryant | | | | Hannah ?? | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Joab Bryant | | | | Mary Stewart | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Martha Bryant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- James Richard Bryant | | | | Carolina Kirby | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Elizabeth Bryant | | | | Anderson Livly ? | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Marcus Bryant | | | | Missouri Stewart | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Nancy Bryant | | | | Enoch Chapman | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Berbary Bryant | | | | James A. Wooten | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Elmina Bryant | | | | George Lemaster ?? | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 35 2. Per 1903 interview 3. Cemetery information from Mrs. Della Brooks, sent by Caress Newell. 8. William’s 4 wives, per 1903 interview (see 8) Easterwood; [McDade]; Polly Vandiver; Hulda Piehuff 6. This is not William Gazzaway Briant, the son of Johnston. 8. Per 1903 interview as sent by Dr. Reid, 4 notations thereon by Mrs. Anna Black Brown 9. Per Mrs. A. B. Brooks’ chat sent by Dr. Reid. 10. W. G. Briant signed re. Estate of Samuel Wilkins. 11. Per Wilkins’ estate papers. 12. Lavania per D-Bk ZZ-161. Levillas per 50 Spartanburg b. c1819/20. 13. Wives of Joab and Marcus were probably sisters. 14. Chart of Mrs. A. B. Brooks 15. Elmina per gravestone, per Dr. Reid. 16. Blooomfield’s SAR application. 17. Cemetery information sent by Dr. Reid. 18. Some Wilkins information is in p. 613 of Coweta County Chronicles by DAR of Newman Co. GA ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 36 #103 James Bryant was born 1774 according to the 1903 interview, whereas a study of the census records indicates birth in 1768/9. Here is what the 1903 interview says about James: James Bryant, son of William Bryant, was born 1774 near Trough Shoals, lately known as Pacolet Hills. He died on November 19, 1858, at the age of 84 years. Fought in war of 1812. James Bryant married Jemima Dillard. She was of direct Welch descent born in Augusta, Georgia, but came to this country while young, her father moving to escape the robberies of the Tories, then so prevalent. Lived near Buzzard Roost. She died July 9, 1852 at age of 70 years. Of the Bryant-Dillard marriage were born 12 children … Sons of James Bryant: Johnson (sic - son of William #101 - JBP); Reuben (Jr), Joab, William, Rich [Richard] and Marcus deLafayette … (re James' ch:) William Bryant (Red Buck) married an Easterwood first; [McDade] next; Polly Vandiver third; Hulda Piehuff fourth. Joab married Polly Steward. Rick married Caroline Kirby. Mark married Missouri Stewart. The ch of James and wife are named in a petition in the Samuel Wilkins estate papers. Reference - SC Archives, Spartanburg Co. Real Estate Papers, file #402: James Briant and the heirs a (sic) Gamima his wife Decea: Polley Barnett the wife of William Barnett, John Briant, William Briant, Patsey Briant, Joab Briant, Elizabeth Liveley the wife of Anderson Liveley, James R. Briant, Nancy Chapman the wife of Enoch Chapman, Marcus Briant, Barbary the wife of James Wooton, Elmina Lemasters the wife of George Lemasters … {also Reuben Jr. - JBP} The above quote gives legal connections for Joab and his brothers and sisters back to their father 1774 James (see also page 77). The interrelationships between the Briants, Dillards and Wilkins are set forth in three documents in the estate papers of Samuel Wilkins, a relationship discovered by Dr. James L. Reid: First part: In SC Archives, Spartanburg Co. Real Estate Papers #402 (12 pages), contain: 22 July 1852 petition of Reuben Briant Jr. administrator, naming heirs of Samuel Wilkins (who died at advanced age of perhaps #108), and in so doing naming the heirs of James and Jemima Briant, and all the Dillard heirs of Joseph Dillard and Priscilla Wilkins (including Jemima Dillard), mentioning but not enumerating heirs of Polly (Wilkins) Hacker and James Wilkins. Second part: File #722, personal property, admin Reuben Briant Jr. and Harcanious Dillard (X). Bond 1851 - 3 page list of property (so he was an old man), had 4 slaves plus one child slave - names purchasers of personal property. Widow got half (Wilkins died intestate) and the other half went to: Joseph Dillard, deceased: 10 ch; James Wilkins; Polly Hacker. Third part: re James Wilkins, heir of Samuel, File #2713. Admin bond b May 1357 by Reuben Briant Jr, Alfred Tolleson, and J. W. Bowden. James is deceased. His share of Samuel Wilkins' estate is to go to: (1) Dillard, deceased wife of Joseph Dillard, deceased. (2) Ch of Polly Hacker, ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 37 #103 deceased wife of ____ Hacker, deceased. Reuben Briant Jr. deposes that in 3rd part James Wilkins left the country 3O-4O yr ago and left two sisters Polly Hacker and Priscilla Dillard. Those two are to get James Wilkins' share of the Samuel Wilkins estate. The 3 documents, when considered all at once, make it clear that Priscilla (Wilkins) Dillard and Joseph Dillard were parents of most of the Dillards that married into the Bryant family. File #402 rather sneakily discloses that "your petitioner" (Reuben Jr.) is an heir of James and Jemima. This petition lists also the ch of the other ch of Priscilla (Wilkins) Dillard and Joseph Dillard. These 3 documents are a truly remarkable set. (Jemima was the only Dillard girl married to a Bryant who was the right age to be mother of "your petitioner" Reuben Jr.) According to the 1903 interview, James was in the War of 1812. According to National Archives, there were four James Bryants who served from SC. Only one set of the four military records shows a residence, York District, an unlikely residence for James to use, as he lived in Spartanburg Co. Yet, this is the most likely one, as he was in 1 Regt (Means) SC Mil, as Pvt.; Means' was the regiment of Edward Patterson believed to be the Col. Edward Patterson buried in downtown Spartanburg and believed to have been the bro. of this searcher's ancestor, David Patterson (c1763-c1852). The other three were in: 1 Regt (Youngblood) SC Mil; pvt Gasque's Bn SC; Pvt, Nash Regt SC vol. Some research in war of 1812 units would probably clear this up, if necessary. (The one in Youngblood's can be ruled out, as he could not sign his name; 1774 James could.) James' participation in War of 1512 makes him eligible for a new gravestone from veterans Admin. (The U. S. govt. does not pay for setting the marker.) Gemima's info can be added but will cost extra. Consideration was given to obtaining a new marker by this method, but people living in the area state that the old stone is still too good to discard at this time. A gravestone rubbing made by Dr. James L. Reid in 1979 reveals the spelling thereon is ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 38 103 as follows (no dates given): James & Gemimy Bryant. Joab's #132 grave is nearby, as is that of Joab's wife Mary Stewart. James was listed in Spartanburg Co., SC censuses for 1810, 1820, 1840, 1850. In 1830 he was in Greenville Co. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 39 #110 (Johnston4, William3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER NAME | Johnston Briant ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER NAME | Sally Tolleson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GROUP NO. | BIRTH | MARRIED | DEATH | BURIAL -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- FATHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- MOTHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Elizabeth Briant | | | | Henry Rodgers | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Curtis Briant | | | | Ursula [Pruitt] | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- (f) | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Aaron Briant | | | | Mary Briant (cousin?) | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- William Gassaway Briant | | | | Lavina Quinn | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Moses Briant | | | | Lucretia | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Mitchell Briant | | | | Joliet [Juliett Pruitt] | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Harcanus Briant | | | | 1. Elizabeth Vandiver | | | | 2. Nancy Smith | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Phoeby Briant ? | | | | William H. Barnett | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Russell Briant | | | | Elizabeth B. Carroll | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 40 -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- (f) | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- (f) | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Marcus Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- 1. Per Mrs. A. B. Brooks’ chart 2. William is most likely the father considering the birth date. 3. Johnston Bryant 63 is in hh 9 Aaron Bryant house #614 in 1850 Benton Co., AL. 4. Per Dr. Reid who says Dorcus didn’t go west with her family. 5. Mr. Wilkins writes 7-16-79 that Aaron went to Calhoun Co., AL 1807-1870, then to Union Co., MS. Mrs. K. M. says Polly was Aaron’s cousin, Polly being the daughter of William and Delilah, William being son of III William (see p. 42). Aaron was in to Benton, Calhoun Co., AL 1847-1870 6. Nickname Darky appears in Samuel Wilkins estate Papers 7. Per Samuel Wilkins Estate. 8. Gassaway dates are from Mrs. A. B. Brooks’ chart sent by Dr. Reid. 9. Per Mrs. A. B. Brooks’ chart. 10. Pheoby born 1829 in TN per Mrs. Williams 11. William Gassaway reared ch of Terrill (#162?). This search group is fairly sure (but not 100% sure) that Harcaneous [Harcanus] Briant / Bryant is the son of Johnston. SC Archives has the estate papers on Hark Bryant, 22 pages, Spartanburg Estate Papers, File 262, June 8, 1863, no will. Evidently Hark died shortly before 20 Apr 1863 (no mention made of Civil War). History of Spartanburg Co., p. 708 says he was wounded in battle, died in hospital in Columbia. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 41 #111 (Thomas4, William3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER NAME | Thomas Briant ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER NAME | Narcissa Camp (3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER’S PARENTS | William Briant | Sarah Tolleson (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GROUP NO. | BIRTH | MARRIED | DEATH | BURIAL -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- FATHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- MOTHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- James Briant | | | | Sarah | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Martha Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Jane Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Thomas or John Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Aaron A. Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- 1. Dr. James Reid says Sarah Tolleson was wife of William, but he does not list Thomas as a possible son of VII William. Mrs. Williams says Thomas is a possible son of William, but she has no documentary proof yet. 3. This may be the Narcissa Camp who married Thomas Brian per p. 80-81 of Camp / Kemp Family History Vol. 1, by Robert Neville Mann and Cathrine Cleck Mann of Cedar Bluff AR (Ceress Newell wrote me 4-19-79). She lived near Landrum, SC. 4. Mrs. Williams says his initial was B. [This record is here to preserve the original document. Thomas is in my family line and is known to be the son of James Brian and Mary, of York Co., SC] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 42 #113 (William F.4, William3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER’S NAME | William F. Briant ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER’S NAME | Delilah Dillard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER’S PARENTS | VII William Briant | Sarah Tolleson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER’S PARENTS | Joseph Dillard | Priscilla Wilkins ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GROUP NO. | BIRTH | MARRIED | DEATH | BURIAL -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- FATHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- MOTHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Terrill Briant | | | | Charlotte Reid | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Mary “Polly” Briant | | | | Aaron Briant | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Coleman Briant | | | | Elizene | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Sarah “Sally” Briant | | | | William Lackey | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Cready Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Louisa Vicie Briant | | | | Thomas E. Richie | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Seaborn Briant | | | | Mary A. Mcxxx | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Lucretia Briant | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Allan Briant | | | | Eliza Richie | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Bowlin Briant | | | | ???? Wood | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 43 #113 -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Joseph Briant | | | | Rebecca Glenn | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- Clarissa Briant | | | | Henry Smith | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 45 # () ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER’S NAME | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER’S NAME | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FATHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTHER’S PARENTS | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GROUP NO. | BIRTH | MARRIED | DEATH | BURIAL -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- FATHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- MOTHER’S DATA DATE | | | | PLACE | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- | | | | | | | | -------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 46 # 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Bryant, 1610 Houston Drive, Spartanburg, SC 29302. However, "Turtlas” spelling is used on stone of his dau Sallie J., bur in Brown-Bryant Cemetery between Cowpens and Pacolet. near Pacolet Mills, Per Mrs. Newell 3-23- 1979. {Have seen it also as Tertillas.} ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 49 {HAND WRITTEN} ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 50 {HAND WRITTEN} ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 51 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 52 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 53 Alfred Briant, farmer and old resident of Huntingdon, was born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, 1809, and is the son of Reuben and Nancy (Tolerson) Briant. The father was of Irish descent; he was born in Virginia, and followed farming. In his youth he went to South Carolina, where he married and remained until his career ended. He died at the advanced age of one hundred and three years, about 1870. His wife, Nancy Tolerson, was born in South Carolina; she died in 1813, at the age of about thirty-five. By this union they had ten children. Mr. Briant was married three times, and was the father of fourteen children. Alfred is the youngest child by his first wife; he was reared at home, receiving a common school education, and made his home with his father until he was nineteen years of age. January 18, 1831, he married Miss Polly Stone, daughter of Aaron and Susanah Stone. Mrs. Briant was born in 1810, in the same district and State as her husband. By this union they had these children: Gardner M., who lives in California; Thomas J. (who in died May 15, 1886, at the age of forty-one; he was town marshal of Huntingdon for twelve years and occupied that position at the time of his death); Sarah A., widow of R. J. Johnson; Aaron R., Reuben A., Albert D., David B.; William H., who was killed by a falling tree near Huntingdon, at the age of sixteen years, and an infant (deceased). In 1838 Mr. Briant left his native State and immigrated to Carroll County, W. TN He bought 400 acres in the Second District, and lived there until 1858 when he came to Huntingdon, bought 152 acres on the outskirts of the city, where he located and now resides. Mr. Briant is one of the substantial and influential citizens of Carroll County. Previous to his coming to Tennessee he was constable for several years. In 1841 he was elected magistrate and served for six years; was deputy sheriff several years previous to the year 1852. In 1852 he was elected tax collector of Carroll County, and served two years; in 1858 was elected sheriff of Carroll County, and 1860 was re-elected and served until the breaking out of the war, when he became one of the "boys in gray." He organized Company H, fifty-fifth Regiment, Tennessee Infantry and Mr. Briant was elected captain of the company. He led his men at Island No. 10, and numerous severe skirmishes. At Island No. 10 he was captured and made prisoner of war. He was taken to Camp Chase, Ohio, thence to Johnson’s Island where he was retained until September 1862, when he was taken to Vicksburg, exchanged, and being honorably discharged returned home. In 1870 he was again elected as sheriff and held the position two years. Capt. Briant is highly esteemed for his sterling qualities and honesty of purpose. During the many years he has been a resident of the county he has always proved to be a man above reproach, and his character without blemish. He is well to do financially, owning 360 acres in the county, and several houses and lots in Huntingdon. In politics he is a Democrat, casting his first vote for H. Clay in 1832. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and lie and wife are members of the U. O. of G. C. and Methodist Episcopal Church South. A. D. Bryant, proprietor of the Quin House, and city marshal of McKenzie, TN, was born September 15, 1842, in Carroll County, and is one of six sons and one daughter, surviving members of a family of ten children born to Alfred and Polly (Stone) Bryant, both of whom were of Spartanburg District, South Carolina, where they were raised together in the same vicinity; were schoolmates, and were married in the same district, and he engaged in farming until 1830, then moved to Carroll County, TN, locating at Huntingdon in 1859, where they now reside. Alfred Bryant, the father, was at one time tax collector of Carroll County, also sheriff one term before the war, and two terms since the war, and is at present county coroner; he was born in 1809, and his wife in 1810. Our subject remained with his parents until the commencement of the war, then enlisted in the Twenty-second Tennessee Confederate Infantry, remaining three months; he was then transferred to the fifty- fifth Infantry, with which he remained until it was consolidated with the Forty- ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg second Regiment, and was then color bearer of the consolidated regiment until December, 1864, when he returned home, and in October, 1866, married Aletha M. Quin; from this marriage were born four daughters and one son; three daughters are still living. He resided in the vicinity of Trezevant, TN, for two years after the war and then moved to Huntingdon, and from there to McKenzie in 1884. March, 1884, he was elected to his present office, but soon resigned and moved to Oxford, Miss., but after a few months returned to McKenzie, and was re-elected. He has recently taken charge of the Quin House, and by the hospitality of himself and wife have gained for the place considerable popularity. Mrs. Bryant’s parents, S. R. and Emily (Harvey) Quin, are both natives of South Carolina, but were married in this State in 1842, and followed farming in Carroll County until 1884, when they moved to Lafayette County, Miss., and engaged in the hotel business; then they returned and are still living in McKenzie. They had four sons and eight daughters; one son and seven daughters are still living. Mr. and Mrs. Quin are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 54 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 55 Sources 128 (2) Per 1903 interview. (4) Head-Bryant Cem., Pacolet - copied from stone 3-17-79 by Mrs. Ceress Newell. (5) Reuben Jr's Bible looks more like October the 10, 1803. (6) Per Reuben Jr. Bible. (7) Challie name is in Reuben Jr. Bible. This searcher's copy is illegible; Mrs. Williams states the Bible says James married Challie. (8) Per 1903 interview as sent by Dr. Reid. (9) Harcanious name appears in Samuel Wilkins estate papers #722- (10) Per "Littlejohn Book" notes made by Mrs. Anna Black Brooks. (11) Per Mrs. A. B. Brooks' chart. (12) Letter by Fred C. Manis of Pacolet. His wife was Joanne (Bryant) Manis, daughter of #245 Edward Green Bryant (13) Per Bible owned. by Mrs. Joanne Manis, Rt. ____ Pacolet SC (14) Supplied by Mr. Luther W. Hampton, 8115 Greenbrook Rd., Columbia, SC 29204 (128) Reuben Briant Jr. is mentioned in the 1903 interview as follows: Reuben Bryant Jr. married a Dillard (first), oldest daughter of Hark Dillard. All children by this unity died young. Reuben then married Sally Kirby, daughter of Terry Kirby, by whom were born Dr. Javan and Rheuhama (who married a Setzler). Then married Joana, now Mrs. Ladshaw. Reuben Jr's estate papers are in SC Archives in Spartanburg Estate Papers file #1687 - Nov 17, 1875 - 55 pages. Heirs are: Dr. Jovan Bryant #243; Mrs. Ruhana (Bryant) Setzler #242 (those two were his ch by former marriage); widow: now Mrs. Joanna ( ) (Bryant) Ladshaw, she having remarried; son of Joanna and Reuben Jr. E. H. Green Bryant #245 evidently nicknamed "Doctor". Throughout the file, "Briant" and "Bryant" spelling was used interchangeably. The heirs got into a squabble. Reuben Jr. was a man of means and among other things owned a town lot on Church Street (Pacolet), His will is included, signed Reuben Briant. Son Javan was State Rep. 1868-70 according to p. 649 of History of Spartanburg Co. Javan was in Co., E. of 13 SCV along with J. R. (#248) and Rowland (#258) according to p. 683. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 56 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 56 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 58 132 Joab Bryant's 5 connection to his father 1774 James 4 is covered under James 103. Joab was in Greenville Co., SC census for 1840; not located for 1850 (a notoriously bad census in Spartanburg Co.,); in Spartanburg Co., in 1860 and prob 1870 (not checked). Proof that Joab is father of this searcher's great grandfather, J. R., is contained in power of atty filed in Spartanburg Co., SC deed records: J. R. Bryant of William(son) County TX appoints (his bro) Thomas D. Bryant to handle his share in estate of "my father, Joab". This document was signed "J. R. Bryant" by a representative at Georgetown, Williamson County, TX, 1380. D-Bk QQ-498. Joab's estate papers are in SC Archives: Spartanburg County Estate Papers, file #2911, June 7, 1350, 40 pages. Admin. was Thomas D. Bryant. Survived by widow, Mary. He died 15 Apr 1880; gravestone confirms this. ch: 1. Mrs. Louise (Bryant) Reid. 2. F. A. Bryant (Frank per 1860 census); 3. J. R. Bryant (no indication of where he was living). 4. Mrs. Minerva (Bryant) Humphries; 5. Mrs. Elizabeth (Bryant) Dillard; W. J. Bryant (deceased) (1860 shows name as William). 7. Thomas D. Bryant. 8. G. W. Bryant (1860 shows name is George) - not William Gazzoway - JBP. 9. John Winfield Bryant. 10. B. W. Bryant (Benjamin per 1860). 11. Martin L. Bryant (Luther per 1360) (he went to Falls Co., TX and may be the one married in Williamson Co., TX). 12. Joseph Bryant. Sale bill of his personal property shows lots of familiar names. Obituary of Joab THE CAROLINA SPARTAN, Published on Wednesday Issue 21 April 1880 Mr. Joab Bryant died at his residence last Thursday the 15th inst. He has been afflicted for a year. His age was 69. He was a native of this county, and with the exception of a short time ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 59 132 he always lived here. He has been a member of the Church for nearly 40 years, and was a Mason, by which fraternity he was buried. He was a kind hearted man, a good neighbor and a worthy citizen. Obituary of Mary Stewart Briant THE CAROLINA SPARTAN Issue March 27, 1889 Mrs. Joab Bryant died suddenly at her daughter's, Mrs. {Elizabeth Bryant} Dillard, at Clifton Saturday night. She was about 75 Years old. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 60 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 61 134 There is uncertainty re Rich's Civil War record and death date. A relative supplied Mrs. Margaret V. Williams with this into taken from SC Carolina Troops in Confederate Service, Vol. III, compiled by A. S. Salley and printed for the Hist. Commission of SC, 1930: Bryant, James R., conscripted at Columbia SC by Col. Preston, July 8, 1862, reported on the muster roll of Dec. 31, 1862, as having been sent to the hospital by order of the Surgeon Dec 27, 1862; died Feb 1, 1863. (fifth Regt., Co. E after reorganization) Mrs. Williams reports: Our James died of dysentery. I have several records of James R’s; may never find which is the right one, just like the William Bryants. SC Archives reports having the following military record (CSR, NARS, Micro. 267 Roll 190): Bryant, James R., Private, Co. E, 5th 30 Inf, enlisted at Columbia, July 8, 1862. Died in General Hospital #18, Richmond, Jan. 5, 1863 of chronic diarrhea. (Note the diff in date of death from the above record.) Mrs. Williams has seen an original letter (held by Mrs. Foster, granddaughter of Rich) that Rich wrote home from the Army - he was in a tent - apparently dated Jan. 8, 1865. Said he is not well and last night he thought he was going to die. (Note that this date does not compare well with the above records and not perfectly With the following.) Here is what "Little Tex" (identified below) says about it: "In July, 1863, ... (Rich's wife)... received word that her son, Roland, had been killed in the battle of Gettysburg and that her husband, Janes, was very ill (James is same as Rich). A short time later word came that he too, had passed away. Several months later,... (Rich's son)... George, returned home. The war was over …” Since Gettysburg was fought early July 1863, this last quotation indicates that Rich died some time 1863 to 1865, but does not help pin down the date of his death. Texana (Bryant) (Black) O'Neill (#265) was called "Little Tex" in early childhood. Her dau, Beulah (O'Neill) Foster prepared (some time after 1939) an unpublished typescript entitled "Little Tex" (19 pages). Mrs. Williams sent a copy. It relates that Rich and two sons, Roland and George, joined the Confeder ate Army. See above as to fate of Rich and Roland. Two years into Reconstructicn, a number of Bryant, Kirby, Cannon, Earbinson, Housner, Schitzler, Berry etc families left Spartanburg for the Heat on‘lS Apr 1867. The Bryant: and Kirby: stopped for a few months on a farm near Clarksville, TN while the other families went straight thru to MO. (I wonder if my J. R. was with them: he had a ch born in Nashville TN 2h Apr 1868.) After a few months in TN, the Bryant: and Kirbys moved on to H0 and settled on farms near Benton. Rich's wife Caroline Kirby survived the war only 6 yr, and died 28 Mar 1871. Her ch then married and settled at Benton, Blodgett, Morley and Crowder Holand Durant OK. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg Child #263, Eosia, arouses interest because of 3 graves in Liberty Hill Cem (in west end of Williamson Co., TX near Burnet Co., line): (1) Bryant, Hezey, infant, 1896 location OC-h-b; (2) Bryant, Emma Brooks, Mother,no markerglocation OC-l3-e; (3) Bryant, Oscar,Son.nO marken location OC-13-e. (Info taken from list of county cem at Williamson Co., Lib.) ' ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 62 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 63 [GROUP SHEET] M. D. Bryant, son of James Bryant and Jemima Bryant was born March 5, 1821, near Trough Shoals. He was in Civil War – was in the three months siege at Charleston – went from there into North Carolina. Was at the fight at Bentonville. Here he was elected to take care of war papers and valuables and was out on bank of branch in camp three months and joined army again at Fayetteville. Served under Johnson, Hardee and Hood. Died Oct. 5, 1895, buried Oakwood Cemetery, Spartanburg. Marcus D. Bryant married Missouri Stweart in Greenville County, on August 8, 1844. Missouri Stwart was born February 28, 1821. Three children: W. F. Bryant, Emily Bryant Bishop, B(loomfield) Bryant. W(infield) F. Bryant, son of M. D. Bryant and Missouri Bryant, was bron December 6, 1847, near Cherokee Springs, Spartanburg County, SC Came to Pacolet at age of twenty one and began mercantile busines 1868 or 1869. Doubless was named for the Marquis de Lafayette who toured U.S. in 1821. #180 estate is in Archievs file 4876 6 Apr 1904. Atlanta’s estate in #9843 10 May 1932. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 64 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 65 144 Continued Aaron Bryant – Mary Bryant Page 2 293 11. Marcus Bolin b. 1859, Toferris, TX 1891 Married Agnes Littlejohn Note: Aaron was in AL 1847 – 1870, then Union Co., MS ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 66 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 67 ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg State of OKLAHOMA County of PUSHMATAHA I am the daughter of OLA BRYANT HEAD #294y. My mother, OLA BRYANT HEAD, has told me that she was the granddaughter of Lucinda (Lucy) Kirby Bryant and William T. Bryant #116 and also a granddaughter of Frances Hunt Kirby and William Terry Kirby. William T. Bryant married Lucinda Kirby and Terry Kirby, brother of Lucinda Kirby, married Frances Hunt. Alfred Tollison Bryant #177, son of William T. Bryant #116 and Lucinda Kirby, marred Adeline Kirby, daughter of Terry Kirby and Frances Hunt. Witness my signature: Name Vira Head Clary #327 Date Mar 4 1974 Age 72 State of OKLAHOMA County of PUSHMATAHA Sworn to and subscribed before me, a Notary Public, this 4th day of March 1974. Hattie E. Ratcliff Notary Public October 9, 1976 My Commission Expires ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 67 Continued ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 68 [GROUP SHEET] 68a [GROUP SHEET] 68b [GROUP SHEET] 68c [GROUP SHEET] 68d [GROUP SHEET] 68e [GROUP SHEET] 69 [GROUP SHEET] 70 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 71 248 James Richardson Bryant 6 (Joab 5, James 4, William 3) By the time he was born, there were a number of other Briants / Bryants in Spartanburg Co., named James, as well as an uncle with the exact full name. Consequently, he used "J. R." in official civil documents. (Military records used James and James R") The only place where his full name has been seen spelled out is in his dau Bella's Bible. His nickname was Jonah, and he named his son Jonah. (There was another Jonah in SC in late 18005.) J. R. enlisted in the Civil War at Spartanburg Court House on 21 Mar 1362, and served until the 9 Apr 1865 surrender at Appomattox Court House, in Co. 3., 13th SC Inf/ one of the most shot-up units in the Confederate Army. Along with four other units, the 13th was in the famous "Light Brigade", and was highly renouned, being regarded as prob 2d only to Hood's Texans. The Light Brigade was part of A. P. Hill's Light Division, which many considered the best division in rke.Armyf according to pages xxvi, xxviii, and xli of Lee's Lieutenants, by Douglas Southall Freeman, vol 2, Charles Scribner‘s Sons, NY, 19h]. The Light Division was under General "Stonewall" Jackson,l.hr under General Robert E. Lee. The record of the Light Brigade is given in History of a Brigade of South Carolinians, known first as "Gregg's" and subsequently as "McGowan's Brigade", by J. F. J. Caldwell, (1666) reprint l97h by Morningside Bookshop, p. 0. Box 1087, Dayton, Ohio h5h01. J. R. was in every major battle in the VA, MD, PA area except lst Hanassas and the Seven Days' Battle which included Mechanicsville--i.e., he was not at Hechanicsville, He was wounded and left at Gettysburg to tend the wounded, resulting in a short stay in Fort Delaware (the Andersonville of the North) prior to being exchanged. He lost a finger from his right hand to a minhie ball 2h Hay 166h near Richmond. He was in the following battles: 1862 - Milford Station, Summit Station, Richmond, Smith's Farm (beside the 72 148 Nine Mile Road) Seven Pines, 2d Manassas, Ox Hill, Harper’s Ferry, Sharpsburg, Shepperdstown (or Boteler’s Ford), Fredericksburg. 1863 – Chancellorsville, Gettysburg. 1864 – Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Jerico Ford, Jones' Farm, Jarrett's Station. 1865 - Hatcher's Run, Gravally Run, Sutherland's Station, routed before Petersburg and retreated to Appomattox Court House and surrender. Conditions in the "Andersonville of the North" are mentioned in "The Awful Conditions at Fort Delaware" in "The Papers of Randolph Abbott Shotwell" ed by Hamilton, reproduced on pages 697 - 700 of The Blue and the Gray ed by Henry Steele Commanger, pub by The Bobbs - Merrill Company, Inc. NY 1950. J. R. did not remain there long. He was exchanged quickly. For an overall view of the generalship of these battles, tee Decisive Battles of the U.S.A. by J. P. C. Fuller, Major-General in the British Army (Retired), 1942 ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg copyright by Harper & Bros printed (no date) by Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. NY. The author, not being biased in favor of either the union or the confederate forces, depicts clearly the muddles that these battles Here - terribly poor generalship on both sides, with high percentage of losses in each battle. For maps at th. nnjor battles, so. The American Heritage Pictorial Atlas of United States History 1966. It seems impossible that anyone could have lived through all of that. The action by 13 SC Inf at 2d Manassas is covered on pp 12-39, Edward McCrady, Jr: "Gregg’s Brigade in the Second Battle of Manassas", Southern Historical Society Papers XIII (1885). McCrady's article re 2d Manassas is reproduced on pages 180 - 162 of the Blue and the Gray. 73 248 On the first day of 2d Manassas, at Groveton, the 13th SC lost over half its personnel in a desperate seven hour defensive battle that almost exhausted the supply of munition. The men were being exhorted to use the bayonet and, "Let us die here, my men, let us die here!", when A. P. Hill threw in the reserves to save them. (Pages 117-118 of Lee's Lieutenants, Vol. 2.) The 13th's action at Gettysburg is covered on pp 51-52 of "McGowan's South Carolina Brigade in the Battle of Gettysburg", by B. F. Brown in Confederate Veteran XXXI 1923. To understand the events immediately before surrender at Appomattox, see “To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865”, by Burke Davis, pub by Rinehart & Company, NY, 1959. On March 24, 1865, command of the Light Brigade fell to Henry Kyd Douglas, whose concussion as Brigadier General came thru in a few days. Fortunately, General Douglas later wrote “I Rode with Stonewall, 1899”, 1940 (U of NC Press). He reports that by the night of April 6, 1865, after the fight at Amelia Court House, the brigade "did not number over 500 men". The morning of April 9, the brigade exchanged a few shots with federal infantry under Gen. Ord. These proved to be the last shots by Lee's army, as Lee had already surrendered. Douglas continued; When the time came. to March out and give up our guns and flags, in surrender, I asked General Gordon to let my brigade as - it had fired the last shot - be the last to stack arms. This he readily granted. In a little while my time came. A heavy line of Union soldiers stood opposite us in absolute silence. As my decimated and ragged band with their bullet torn banner marched to its place, someone in the blue line broke the silence and called for three cheers for the last brigade to surrender. It was taken up all about him by those who knew what it meant. But for us this soldierly generosity was more than we could bear. Many of the grizzled veterans wept like women, and my own eyes were as blind as my voice was dumb. Years have passed since then and time mellows memories, and now I almost forget the keen agony of that bitter day when I recall how that line of blue broke its respectful silence to pay such tribute, at Appomattox, to the little line in gray that had fought them to the finish and only surrendered because it was destroyed. 74 248 ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg J. R. moved from Spartanburg area during Reconstruction, as did many thers. Tax rolls in SC have not been consulted to determine when he left there. One ch was born 1863 in TN. There is a clue that the ram spent some time in HS. Williamson Co., TX tax rolls do not prove exactly when J. R. arrived there. The first definite tax roll date is that he was there 1 Jan 1875 with 3 horses / mules worth $100, 2 cattle worth $35, tools worth $50, money $300, misc $10, total declared taxables $495, no land. It is possible but not likely that J.3. was the "James” listed as of 1 Jan 1873 with 100 ac land etc total $1,000. Best indication is that J. R. reached Williamson Co., during 1874, and Adaline died the same year. J. R. seems to have lived only in Williamson Co., after his first winter in TX, which according to {am tradition was spent in Brenham where both wood and water were available. That location tends to indicate he arrived from MS rather than from TN. he speculated in Burnet Co., land 1885-1886 but did not live there. His son Jonah Jr. did live for a time in Burnet Co., near Bertram: he bought 16h so in 1880; in 190k (the yr after his sis Emma Lou moved near Bertram) he began buying more land until 22 Jan 1909; then he sold land in fall and winter 1913, which is when he evidently moved to Robstown, Nueces Co., TX. In support of fam tradition, the minutes of Williamson County Commissioners Court show these entries: (1) 13 Feb 1883 J. R. appointed overseer of county farm; (2) 1 Oct 1883 J. R. appointed supt of county farm; (3) 3 June 1887 J. R. resigned effective 15 Aug 1887. {Family tradition, he was also a Deputy Sheriff} It is odd that J. R.'s descendants in Central TX do not know the location of his grave (presumably nearby), when the graves of his father and grandfather have been located in Spartanburg Co., SC. His estate papers have not been found, either. J. R.'s 1st wife, Adeline, is buried in I.P.P.F. Cemetery, division F, in Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX in a bordered plot, along with son Jonah Jr. (and Jonah 75 248 Jr's early babies), dau Ella B and her babies, dau Alice - but there is no marker there for J. R., although there is space for him. Adaline died in 1874 while the fam lived some miles north of Georgetown, while J. R. was away on a few days trip, on horseback. When he returned home, Adaline was already buried. J. R. dug the body up and moved it to Georgetown. J. R. married 2/w Minnie Crum in 1885; she died May 1898. He was living in Georgetown in 1900 with ch of 2d marriage, a girl named Clifford. Efforts to trace Clifford have failed, and the grave of 2/w Minnie (Crum) Bryant has not been found. Clifford is known to have attended Baylor - Belton College at Belton TX, but the school's records have burned. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg The 1830 census did not connect this searcher's grandmother #304, Emma Louise (Bryant) Pope, with J. R., because the fam was split up into diff boarding houses in Georgetown. Proof that J. R. was father of Emma Lou and her bro and sis is given by: 1. Her death certificate #57547 Burnet Co., TX states (and her husband was there to give the info) that her father was "Jonah Bryant". 2. Her son, Clinton H. Pope, told this searcher (on tape) that her father was named Jonah. 3. For a while, this searcher thought this was in error, since she had a bro named Jonah. However, a 1979 notarized statement by her son Calvin cleared this up: both her bro and her father were called Jonah. 4. This searcher was told in his youth, by his grandmother Emma Lou, that her father was at one time Supt. of County Farm in Williamson Co.. Emma Lou's son Clinton told this searcher the same thing in later years. County records show that such individual was J. R. Bryant. All official records found in TX refer to him as J. R. 5. The Bible of Mary Della (Bryant) Brooks, known by this searcher to be the sis of Emma Lou, gives the father's name as James Richardson Bryant. This is the only place it has been found spelled completely out. Bella's death certificate says "J. R." ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 76 252 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 77 252 (THIS IS TAKEN FROM BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF EASTERN ARKANSAS, 1890, ST. LOUIS, MO.) THOMAS DIXON BRYANT T. D. Bryant, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of Nolton. and a man thoroughly respected by his fellow-citizens, is originally from South Carolina. as were also his parents, Joab {#132} and Mary (Stewart) Bryant, of Scotch and English descent. Joab Bryant was a leading farmer of his county, and though not educated was well informed and a good business man. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant were married in 1831, and were the parents of twelve children, nine of whom are living: Louisa {#246} (now Mrs. Reid), F. A. {#247} (a Methodist minister of Texas), J . R. {#248} (also of Texas). Minerva {#249} (now Mrs. Hemphis), Elizabeth {#250}, who married F. L. Dillard, W. J. {#251}, J. W. {#253}, T. D. (our subject), M. L. {#254}, B. W. {#755} (a manufacturer of Mississippi), G. W. {#255} (a resident of South America) and Joseph {#257} (a resident of this county). The grandfather (on the father’s side), James Bryant {#103}, was a soldier in the War of 1812. Josh Bryant and wife were connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. South. The senior Bryant died in 1874, and his wife in 1889. He was a Mason. T. D. Bryant was reared to farm life. In his boyhood days the advantages for schooling were very limited, but by close application to study he has educated himself, mostly at home. At the age of fourteen Mr. Bryant enlisted in the Confederate service, joining the first Regiment of Heavy Artillery of South Carolina. which was stationed at Fort Sumter, and in 1862 joined the regular army; was in a number of hard-fought battles, and witnessed the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 7, 1863, and was present at its capitulation. He was captured at Smithfield, but, escaping, was recaptured the same night. Mr. Bryant served as orderly and was promoted to sergeant. While in the army he was wounded four times, once in the head by a piece of shell, again, on James Island, by a bayonet thrust into the left side, which entered between the fifth and sixth rib; then again in the knee joint and also in the arm by a bayonet. After the war he returned home and the following year moved to Kentucky, where he engaged in farming in the eastern part of the State and also taught school. In 1867 he removed to Dyer County, TN, where he farmed, following this for two years, then taught for two years in McNairy County, TN He returned to South Carolina and busied himself with farming and teaching for twelve years. In 1882 he removed to Alabama and in 1886 immigrated to Arkansas, settling on his present property, which comprises 120 acres of land, with thirty-five under cultivation. Mr. Bryant was born in 1846. He has been twice married, first in 1866 to Miss N. J . Fitzgerald {Nancy Jane Fitzgerald}, of South Carolina, who died in 1871, and who was the mother of three children: George (a resident of this county), Edgar (a resident of South Carolina) and Elector (a teacher in South Carolina). Mr. Bryant was married the second time to Miss D. E. Fitzgerald, in 1872. They have been given seven children, all living: Lillie, Joseph, Milas, Lelier, Lulu, Thomas and Talmage. Mr. Bryant began preaching in 1885, three months before joining ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg the presbytery, and he is the founder of the fist Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, as well as the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Woodruff County. Mr. Bryant preaches in Cross, Woodruff, Poinsett and Jackson Counties, and is very active in all religious and educational enterprises. He is a Royal Arch Mason. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 78 268 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 79 294 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 80 300 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 81 301 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 82 302 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 83 302 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 84 303 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 85 304 [GROUP SHEET] Emma Lou’s obit contained this pertinent info: born April 24th, 1867 {1863 more likely} in Nashville, TN, moved to TX with parents when a small ch and settled near Georgetown. Baptist. Eastern Star. On farm near Granger until 1903 when moved to Bertram. (That farm near Granger had been put together by Jim Pope’s father, Calvin Pope 1834 – 1891, who came to TX 1869.) ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 86 304 {PHOTO} Emma Louise (Bryant) Pope 1868 - 1949 ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 87 305 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 88 308 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 89 316 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 90 331 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 91 356 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 92 357 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 93 358 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 94 360 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 95 361 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 96 From Pabst, Bobst, Pobst, Pope family in the South Texas and Other States (Generations 5-9) #368 Clinton Henry Pope (James 6, Calvin 5, Daniel 4, Henry Pobst 3, Henrich Bobst 2, Heinrich Pabst 1) called “Clint” merchant Baptist b Circleville Wco 4 Apr 1887 d Austin, TX 8 May 1970 m. Bertram Burnet Co. 24 Dec 1910 Martha Jewell Jennings called “Mattie” b Burnet Co. TX 5 Jan 1889 d Austin 27 Aug 1956 (both bur Austin Memorial Park) Methodist dau of Charles W. Jennings and Martha Agnes Thompson. Clinton moved with parents to Burnet Co. near Bertram 1903. He and Martha lived Bertram until 1921 / 1922; Taylor WCo. Until 1926; Sherman TX 1926; Austin 1926 until her d 1956. Then Clinton lived Austin until 1961; San Francisco and Walnut Creek CA until 1965; then Austin TX until d. Martha’s ancestry is traced in some Jennings ancestors, their descendants, and Allied Families1977 by this searcher. Ch: Clint was son of Emma Louise & J. R., son of Joab, son of James, son of 1736 William #368A Jennings Bland Pope b 17 Apr 1914, d 15 Apr 1983 son of Clint. #368A Jennings Bland Pope 9 (Clinton 7, James 6, Calvin 5, Daniel 4, Henry Pobst 3, Henrich Bobst 2, Heinrich Pabst 1) called “Bland” b Bertram Burnet Co. TX 17 Apr 1914 unmarried living 1980 in Austin, moved with parents to Taylor TX, Sherman TX, Austin TX, was in Houston 1950, San Antonio 1960, Walnut Creek CA 1970 censuses. Other locations lived: OK City 1945, Tuscaloosa AL 1946, Dallas 1952 – 1955, Atlanta GA 1958 – 1959, Pasadena CA 1960 – 1961, San Francisco CA 1961 – 1962, Walnut Creek CA 1962 – 1971, Memphis TN (Germantown) 1971 – 1974. Is 6’2½”, 185 lbs., dark hair (originally), blue eyes, medium color skin. Educated as accountant / auditor, worked several parts of the field: public accountant, educator, controller, internal auditor in both private industry and federal government. Name “Bland” has no ancestral basis. Bryant Ancestors (Bland 9, Clinton 8, Emma Lou 7, Jonah 6, James 4, William 3) #370 Ira Newton Pope 8 (James 6, Calvin 5, Daniel 4, Henry Pobst 3, Henrich Bobst 2, Heinrich Pabst 1) b Wco 8 June 1890 d Portales NM c1960 m 1/w Molly Bett McAlister who d of tuberculosis as did 2 of ch; one child d in auto accident; all 3 ch d within 2 yr, unmarried. 2/w Mrs. _____ Brown: they moved to NM, had no ch. Ira was the 4th son of Emma Lou. Dale Pope 8 b c1913 d c1937 of TB Doyle Pope called “Jiggs” b c1915 d Austin in auto accident 1936 Dorothy Mozelle Pope b c1919 d Austin of TB c1935 ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg #371 Calvin Pope 7 (James 6, Calvin 5, Daniel 4, Henry Pobst 3, Henrich Bobst 2, Heinrich Pabst 1) called “Cal” b near Georgetown Wco. 7 Sept 1891 lived in Corpus Christi TX, Baptist, m Robstown Nueces Co. TX 28 Feb 1918 Ellen Elizabeth Messer b Bartlett TX 31 Aug 1900 d Corpus Christi 28 Jul 1956, teacher, Baptist, dau of Daniel Tomas Messer and Frances Elizabeth Brocke. Calvin was in US Navy in WWI, then farmer, cotton ginner, steam fitter, fence salesman. Info supplied by n _____, Calvin was son of Emma Lou. #371A James Quinton Pope 8 b Bertram, Burnet Co. TX 15 Dec 1919 lived 1977 m Corpus Christi Apr 1946 Virginia Dunne. Ch James Quinton Jr. 9, Sandra Ann, Maxine Frances. #371B Delva Dawn Pope b Robstown TX 25 Dec 1920 lived 1977 in San Jose CA m Corpus Christi TX 1 Aug 1945 Charles Julian Stoltenberg of WI. Ch Gloria Gay, Julaine Joy, Ellen Elizabeth, Charlene Claire, Artsie Arlene. #371C John Calvin Pope b Bertram 4 Nov 1925 lived 1977 San Antonio TX m 1/w Corpus Christi June 1947 Betty Jean Zimmerman. Ch Sharon 9, Nancy died young, Deborah, Rebecca. 2/w Mary Ann Hollegham (?) who previously m _____ Howard. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 97 389 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 98 399 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 99 407 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 100 408 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 101 410 [GROUP SHEET] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 102 1903 INTERVIEW {3 Pages of this sketch previously prepared by Mr. Bloomfield Bryant and mimeographed by his son Horace Bryant. Last three pages by W. F. Bryant.} Erasmus Tolleson came from England to this country about 1675 {1765 correct this - JBP} and settled at Old Buzzard Roost, which afterward became known as Pacolet. He came to this country rich, said to have been worth about one million dollars and bought all the land around Old Buzzard Roost, raised a family there married. {I have found no record in the courthouse in in the state house in Columbia in name of Erasmus Tolleson - A. B.} Erasmus Tolleson lived to the age of about one hundred years. After his death his son, John Tolleson, continued at Buzzard Roost, which had become known as racing grounds and the rendezvous of all sports of the vicinity. Chicken fighting and men fighting was largely practiced. John Tolleson married ______ {Amy DeHart}{Her deposition should remove any doubt}{I got the name Amy from .. court records A. B.} John Tolleson’s daughter {sister?}, Sallie Tolleson, Married William Bryant, who came from Virginia, and became the mother of the direct line of the Bryant family of upper South Carolina. {She} lived nearly one hundred years and died at “Uncle Reuben Bryant’s” about 1836. {b. 1736 or later – or she was older than John Tolleson.} William Bryant came to Buzzard Roost from Virginia, married Sallie Tolleson, daughter {sister?} of John Tolleson, by which marriage eleven children were born. {John Tolleson’s 1820 will does not list Sallie among his heirs so she is probably his sister - JBP}. William Bryant fought in the Revolutionary War, was in the battle of Cowpens and also at Morganton. Fought during the entire war. William Bryant was of Scotch-Irish descent. James Bryant, son of William Bryant, was born 1774 near Trough Shoals, lately known as Pacolet Mills. He died on November 19, 1858 at the age of 84 years. Fought in War of 1812. James Bryant married Jemima Dillard. She was {of direct Welch descent} born in Augusta (#352) Georgia, but come to this country while young, her father moving to escape the robberies of the Tories, then so prevalent. Lived near Buzzard Roost. She died July 9, 1852 at age of 70 years. Of the Bryant – Dillard marriage were born 12 children. [ MARY BRYANT; MARTHA BRYANT; ELIZABETH BRYANT; REUBEN BRYANT b. 1803 d. 1875; JOHN BRYANT b. 1807 d. 1880; ISAAC BRYANT b. 1809.; JOAB BRYANT b. 1811 d. 1880; JAMES RICHARD BRYANT b. 1817 d. 1863; MARCUS DELAFAYETTE BRYANT b. 1821 d. 1898; NANCY M. BRYANT b. 1823 d. 1900; ELVIRA BRYANT b. 1824 d. 1909; BARBARA M. BRYANT b. 1826 d. 1905 ] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg {Sons of James Bryant: Johnson, Reuben Jr., Joab, William, Rich and Marcus De Lafayette, Polly who m. William Barnett, no it wasn’t Reuben Sr.’s ch Polly, that married William Barnett, Reuben’s Polly married William Harvey – JBP.} {One Samuel Dillard lived in Pacolet area in 1832. Littleberry Quinn owed him money.} ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 103 {NOTE: Jemima Dillard is sister of Harcaneous Dillard. Harcaneous is father of William Frank. Jemima is sister of Samuel Dillard m. Elizabeth Reid – father of Judah wife of William Frank & Sarah Elizabeth.} Miss Dillard was of direct Welch descent. M. D. Bryant [Marcus DeLafayette] {married Miss Stewart}, son of James Bryant and Jemima Bryant, was born March 5, 1821, near Trough Shoals. He was in Civil War - was in the three months siege at Charleston – went from there into North Carolina. Was at the fight at Bentonville. Here he was elected to take care of war papers and valuables and was out on bank of branch in camp three months and joined amy again at Fayetteville. Served under Johnson, Hardee and Hood. Died {Oct 8, 1898, buried Oakwood Cemetery, Spartanburg.} Marcus D. Bryant married Missouri Stewart in Greenville County on August 8, 1844. Missouri Stewart was born February 28, 1821. Three Children: W. F. Bryant [Winfield], Emily Bryant Bishop, [Bloomfield] B. Bryant. {Winfield} Winfield F. Bryant, son of M. D. Bryant and Missouri Stewart, was born December 6, 1847, near Cherokee Springs, Spartanburg Co., SC. Came to Pacolet at age of twenty one and began mercantile business. Married Atlanta Wood, daughter of James Wood and Harriet [Agnes] {Wilkins} Wood, February 26, 1874. Atlanta Wood was born May 30, 1848. {Children:} Clarence Bernard Bryant, January 18, 1875 Fred L. Bryant, March 24, 1877. William Stewart, husband of Nancy {Ponder} Stewart and father of Missouri Stewart, died about 1877 at the age of about 80 years. Nancy Ponder, wife of William Stewart, died about 1867 at the age of 70 years. Ten children of the marriage: Neddy Stewart came from Virginia. Died about 1842 at age of 90 years. {*Sons of James Bryant: Johnson, Reuben Jr., Joab, William, Rich and Marcus DeLafayette. This belongs on page 1.} Polly Ford, wife of Neddy Stewart, died about 1857 at age of 80. Five children from this marriage of which William Stewart was one. Thomas Ponder was father of Nancy Ponder. Died about 1837 at age of 75 years. Came from Virginia to Greenville County. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 104 1903 interview (related material) TOLLESON (copied from Bryant family sketch put out by Horatio Bryant, son of Bloomfield Bryant of Spartanburg) Erasmus Tolleson came from England to this country about eighteen scratch about 1675 {1765} and settled at Old Buzzard Roost which afterwards became known as Pacolet. He came to this country rich, said to have been worse about 1 million dollars, and bought all the land around said Buzzard Roost. Raised a family there, married. Erasmus Tolleson lived to the age of about 100 years. After his death is son, John Tolleson, continued at Buzzard Roost, which had become known as racing grounds and the Rendezvous of all sports of the vicinity. Chicken fighting and Man fight was largely practiced. John Tolleson married _____ {legal papers give her name as Amy A. Brooks. On page 4 of the sketch it is said by Mrs. Nancy Brown that John Tolleson's first wife was a DeHart - so her name was Amy DeHart Tolleson.} {Her deposition should remove any doubt.} John Tolleson's daughter, Sally Tolleson, married William Bryant, who came from Virginia, and became the mother of the direct line of the Bryant family of upper South Carolina. Lived nearly 100 years and died at “Uncle Reuben Bryant's about 1836.” They had eleven children. See the sketch for other Bryant history. {I have not seen the name of Sally Tolleson in the records I have found – A. B.} Copied from records as set down by W. F. Bryant of Pacolet and was given to him by Mrs. Nancy Brown, Pacolet, March 5th 1903. Hannah Brooks verified that this Nancy Brown {Nancy (Bryant) Brown} was the wife of Fulton Brown, maiden name Bryant. Nancy Bryant Brown. Brands or Bryant was named Ruben senior he died about 1861 at 90 odd years of age. He married Nancy Tolleson, daughter of John. Ruben Bryan's seniors children by Nancy Tolleson were William T. John, Eli, Alfred and Muse Bryant, Betsy, Polly, Sally and Charlotte. Left out one James be married Polly Quinn. Ruben Bryant's second wife was Sally Whidley {Whitley}, by whom were Tom, Berrymon, Dave and Nancy. Shirt wife, Nancy Wiott {Wyatt} - no children. John Tolleson's first wife was a DeHart, by whom were born Muse and Eli. (Mrs. Brown left out Nancy Bryant, Lydia Sparks, “dum” John, Lovicey, Kirby, Annie Gossett, Ity Quinn, and Steven Tolleson. A. B.) By second wife, who was Polly Smith – Aphus (Josephus), Alfred, bird (Birdsong), James, Lucinda and Konsada. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg Aphis married a White (Eliza) Alfred married a Quinn, Margaret or Peggy. James married a Reid, (Katie or Catherine Reid) Bird married a Gossett. Lucinda married a White. Chance ads k a n s a d a Eliza cansada married a Harmon Katherine Reid was the daughter of William Reid Esquire brother of Thomas Reid my great-great-great-grandfather J. F. Reid 7-15-1979 ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 105 1903 interview Grandser Bryant married as second wife Sally Whidley. Richardson Whidley, Sally's father, married twin sisters. Didn't know who they were. I know very little of the Whidley's. Only one family, very few married. Reuben Bryant Jr. married a Polly Dillard Polly 10-12-1826, first, oldest daughter of Hark Dillard. All children by this Unity died young. Ruben Jr. then married Sally Kirby, daughter of Terry Kirby, which were born Dr. Javan and Ruhamah (who married a Setzler.) Then married Joana now Mrs. Ladshaw. Eli Bryant (Grey Buck’s brother) married a Sally Brown, sister of Elijah, William, and George Brown. William Brown is father to Randolph, T. C. Brown, and others. John Bryant married a Barbara Mitchell. Married second time to M. Quinn. Alfred married Polly Stone. James married Polly Quinn. Muse married Mima Littlejohn Grey Buck’s sisters: Betsy married John Harvey Polly married Bill Harvey Sally married Wright Kirby Charlotte married William Kindley Great-grandfather Reuben Bryant Sr had by his second marriage three boys and one girl. Berriman, later in life moved to California and became a became wealthy, a banker. Berriman for married a Whidley, 2nd a woman from New York named Etta did not know last name. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 106 1903 interview Dave and Thomas: {Children of Reuben Sr. by 2nd Wife} Thomas married a Shaw, do not know who Dave married. Ruben's second wife was a Whidley. William Bryant, (Red Buck) married and Easterwood first. [Maria McDADE] next. [Mary] Polly Vandiver 3rd. Helda Piebuff [Hulda GOSSETT] 4th. Joab married Polly Stewart. Rick married Caroline Kirby. Mark married Missouri Stewart. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 107 1903 interview Related material Eliza Tolleson v. George W. brown Suit for dower - 13th February 1879 Eliza Tolleson, widow of Josephus B. Tolleson, sued George W. Brown for her dower right in property of her husband in Pacolet South Carolina. Eliza testified that there was 166-1/3 Acres when they lived on this Farm in 1827 where there are three or four years. Husband sold it to Henry White. I think it took in the depot. I live to the left of the depot going down. White sold it to William Quinn. I think Winfield Bryant's house and store are on the land. Think William Quinn dated this to R. C. Quinn. Deed from Henry White to William Quinn dated 1830. Deed from use Tolleson to Josephus B. Tolleson and other dated 16th December 1818. Also a deed from Alfred Tolleson. Alfred Tolleson testified that the land extends on both sides of the depot, quarter mile up and down Railroad on each side, don't think it extended on both sides of railroad. The upper and middle part of the left side of railroad going down. Land ran nearly up to the pond above the depot - pond 300 or 400 yards above. Three brothers James, J. B., and Birdsong owned land together. Birdsong interest was sold by the sheriff to William Quinn. Brother Josephus be lived between 100 and 200 yards from depot on left about 100 yards. Birdsong’s land was below where when Winfield Bryant now lives. Note by Anna Brooks - Winfield Bryant had a store and lived in two rooms at the back part of the lot where the bank was and post office is now, in the 1870s. Later he bought and built house and store at the corner of below. I am sure all of this was on the old Tolleson Plantation.) See attached Platt. Alfred Tolleson's testimony continues Brown store is in a radius of about 75 yards of depot filled J. B. T. cultivated late Wars depot from his house containing three or four acres, began about his house, did not quite reach the dirt road about 10 or 15 Steps From Railroad. It run Ride Along dirt road did not reach depot. If we draw a straight line from the old John Tolleson house to the depot J. B. T. would be about 75 yards to the left going down. S. O. Sam's, surveyor said: “There is a branch and direction on one plat, parallel with third line, no old marks on line 4 until near Lemaster line, this line now within 50 Links of the Lemaster line, line 5 found an old Hedgerow nearly whole extent of line, nothing on line 6, think one line missing. “A” marks Brown store, “B” Brown's house, both within the survey “C” marks depot. There is about 120 Acres, deed calls for 114. Line 6 terminating about 150 yards above depot, being out nearly an old house.” George W Brown Testimony Mrs. Tolleson's old house 70 steps outside of the line Captain Sam's ran, about 50 yards from where he stopped, back to the old place. Deed from James Wood and Norris to me, and to the store from Railroad Co. We examined old man Bryant Ruben, I suppose trying to locate where Mrs. Tolleson lived. Mr. Bryant, and perhaps Mr. Haynes, interested in the land. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg (Anna Brooks figures it is about 350 yards from the depot to the Allie Gossett house were the Burdettes live. Old John Tolleson Tavern was right along there, according to Mr. Sydney Tiner and Mr. Bernard B. James.) ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 108 1903 interview Thomas Ponder was in the Revolutionary War. Drew pension for services in that war. NC Hinson wife of Thomas Ponder, died about 1842 at age of 70 years. 7 children, of which Nancy Ponder was one. William Barnett, married Polly Bryant, eldest sister of Marcus D Bryant. William Barnett was in War of 1812. He was in Battle of New Orleans and hands down the following song. They let us down to New Orleans The swamp was low and monkey And there we met old packing ham But here was Old Kentucky Old Packingham had made his boast If we should hold out lucky He'd have our gals in Cotton bags In spite of Old Kentucky But Jackson he was wide awake And not to be scared by Trifles He knew a scheme that he would take With his Kentucky rifles (Cotton ball breast-works). Now light on said Hickory Jackson the Cannons they show battle Fight along Old Jackson said And we'll be sure to win the battle My youthful companions Drawing Near And for me you'll shed a tear When you hear what a victim I fell I listed to fight with the brave And marched to a southerly land My country from Slaughter to save Yet Jackson he had the command On guard I was ordered with speed Weary and sleepy was I To ho Jackson, he had the command I thought he should ne’er see me die I thought a reprieve I would get And for one did quickly apply To a general both generous and brave Last Words lost; the occasion of this last poem was a young man being condemned to be shot for going to sleep at his post ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 109 1903 interview Copied from record as set down by W. F. Bryant and as given to him by Mrs. Brown, (Pacolet). History of Bryant's, Whidleys, and Tollesons given by Nancy Brown March 5th, 1903, to W. F. Bryant. Her great-grandfather Bryant was old {he was born ca. 1741} when Mrs. Brown was a child. {she was born 1823} She does not remember his name. He was lame as she remembers him and the Tories would carry him off to their camps and keep him several days at a time. Her great-grandmother she remembers. She does not recall her name before marriage. Her given name was Millie. {Sallie?} Granser Bryant {grandfather?} was named Ruben {Sr}. He died about 1861 {1863 - JBP}, 90 odd years of age. He married Nancy Tolleson, daughter of John Tolleson. Ruben Bryant's children by Nancy Tolleson were, William F. [Tolleson], John [Tolleson], Eli [Tolleson], Alfred [Tolleson], and Muse [Tolleson], Betsy [Tolleson], Paulie [Tolleson], Sally [Tolleson] and Charlotte [Tolleson]. Ruben Bryant's second wife was Sally Whitdley, by whom were Tom [Tolleson], Berryman [Tolleson], Dave [Tolleson] and Nancy [Tolleson]. Third wife, Nancy Wyatt no children. Her father was William Tolleson Bryant, known as Gray Buck. Her mother was a Kirby, named Lucinda [Kirby Bryant]. They had 15 children, Calvin nt], Roland [Bryant], Alfred [Bryant], Pinckney [Bryant], William [Bryant], Nancy [Bryant], Adeline [Bryant], Betsy [Bryant], Holly [Bryant], Missouri [Bryant], Altamina [Bryant], Regina [Bryant], Hannah [Bryant], Katherine [Bryant], and Elmina [Bryant]. John Tolleson's first wife was a DeHart, by whom were born Muse [Tolleson] and Ali [Tolleson]. By second wife, who was Polly Smith [Tolleson], Afus [Josephus Tolleson], Alfred [Tolleson], Bird [Birdsong Tolleson], Lucinda [Tolleson], Kansada [Tolleson]. Afh married a White. {Joseph} Alfred married a Quinn. James married a Reid. Bird married a Gossett. Lucinda married a White. Kansada married a Harmon. [Cansada] ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 110 - 111 Mrs. A. B. Brooks’ Charts William F. Bryant {prob son of Reuben Sr. - JBP} Reuben Briant Sr. John Bryant b. abt 1770 m. Milberry Quinn d. May 1863 [not legible] m. 1. Nancy Tolleson 2. Sally Whidley ==================== 3. Nancy Wyatt He owned land ?? [not legible] Pacolet 1806 ==================== ==================== [William Reuben Bryant James Bryant m. Sarah Tolleson] b. 1777 Isham Bryant d. 11-19-1858 [b. 1781] m. Jemima Dillard bought land 1810 b. ?? 1782 d. ?? 1852 age 70 ==================== {Johnston Bryant – JBP} William Gassaway Bryant b. 9-26-1818 d. 10-3-1883 m. Lavinia Quinn ==================== William Reuben Bryant Sr. m. Sally Tolleson Rev. Soldier, from VA {William F. Bryant – JBP} Tyrell [Terrell] Bryant [b. 1813] [d. 1869] m. Elizabeth Vandiver [not verified] m. Charlotte Frances Reid ==================== ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 112 CHART ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 113 ALLIED FAMILY GROUP SHEET ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 114 ALLIED FAMILY GROUP SHEET ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 115 ALLIED FAMILY GROUP SHEET ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 116 ALLIED FAMILY GROUP SHEET ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 117 ALLIED FAMILY GROUP SHEET Mrs. Virginia S. Fowler (Mrs. W. R.) Rt. 8, Box 699-A, Gaffney, South Carolina 29340 reports that children by 2/w were. Josephus “Aphus” Berryman Tolleson who married Eliza White; Alfred Tolleson who mar Margaret “Peggy” Quinn; James B. Tolleson who married Catherine “Katie” Reid; Birdsong Tolleson who mar a Gossett; Lucinda Tolleson {who mar a White; and Kansada Tolleson who mar a Harmon. (see p. 109)} ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg 118 John Tolleson ALLIED FAMILY Sources 2. Amy (DeHart) Tolleson deposition on record in Spartanburg County Court of Equity (Box 6 Package 1, date 1825) in South Carolina archives according to Dr. James Reid who has seen microfilm copy. South Carolina archives cannot identify it to make a copy. 3. Per John Tolleson will, according to Mrs. Anne R. Bruce, 1803 Scenic Dr., Alamogordo, New Mexico, 88310. 4. The name DeHart comes from a 1903 interview, but Amy's deposition should clear up any doubt. Have seen indication somewhere that her name was Muse not DeHart, but the deposition should revolve resolve this. See bottom of this page. 5. 1903 interview was sent by Dr. Reid, with comments by Mrs. an B Brooks. 6. Per John Tolleson will at South Carolina archives, Spartanburg Estates, file 2033, according to Reid, May 30th, 1821, Muse Tolleson, Exdo. 7. Per Mrs. Williams 8. Per Mrs. Virginia Fowler John Tolleson maybe the son of Erasmus Tolleson who may have come to Buzzards Roost area after coming from England c. 1765, according to a 10 page typescript “Pacolet” by Mrs. Anna Black Brooks, who says that John Tolleson married Amy DeHart. South Carolina archives has Revolutionary War record on Erasmus. Mrs. Anne R. Bruce, 1903 Scenic Dr., Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310, has document AA-7845, account for Erasmus Tolleson service 1781 through 1782 containing endorsement referring to John as Uncle of Erasmus. John Tolleson's will (dated 24th July 1820, approved 30th May 1821) is said to be recorded in Will book B, Page 6, Box 29, Package 10. This will is said to show that his children were: Sons: John; Muse; Eli; James; Daughters: Lydia Sparks; Levicy Kirby (Mrs. Richard Kirby); and Amy Gossett. Witnesses. James Harrison and A. Lemaster. The list of John Tolleson's grandchildren by his daughter Nancy, Mrs. Reuben Bryant Sr., is given in Amy (DeHart) Tolleson’s deposition regarding John Tolleson’s estate as seen on film by Dr. Reid, #399-A, but South Carolina archives cannot identify it to copy for this searcher. Mrs. Williams has Revolutionary War record of Erasmus Tolleson: Duty from 1st May 1781 to 20th August 1782, was Cavalry Horsemen, and footman. Militia Duty in Captain James Roebuck’s regiment, since fall of Charleston, dated 20 September 1886. Another note enclosed: Sir please to take my indent to pay for John Tolleson's Grant, from your friend. Erasmus Tolleson (X). To treasury Major Baquett 30th December 1786. This Search Group does not understand the significance, if any, of a deposition recorded in Fairfield County SC, Deed Book AA, 484-5, 14th October 1819, by Thomas Muse stating that a John Tol____ married Anna Muse in 1767/8 in Craven Co., evidently near Camden. ** PAGE BREAK ** Bryants of Spartanburg ###### # # ##### ####### # # ##### ####### # # # # ## ## # # # ## # # # # # ## ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # #### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## ### # # # # # # ###### # # ##### ####### # # ### ##### ####### # # Transcribed from original documents by Brent R. Brian & Martha M. Brian. This document and others can be found on our website: BMGEN We claim COPYLEFT on the documents that we publish that are our original work. COPYLEFT "rules” can be reviewed on the web site: GNU Free Documentation License In short, use what you like. But if you use our stuff, mention us as the source. Brent R. Brian Martha M. 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