BRYAN FAMILY HISTORY - Interactive Family Histories

BRYAN FAMILY HISTORY 8-279WILLIAM DEMOSS BRYAN (3.6) is the son of Samuel Bryan and CharlotteGreer (Charter) Bryan. William was born on March 22, 1838 in DavidsonCounty, Tennessee. William DeMoss Bryan served in the Confederate Armyduring the Civil War, from November 22, 1861 to May 3, 1865. On August 20,1867, William DeMoss Bryan married Sallie Early White Church. Sallie wasborn on July 25, 1851 and is the daughter of Isaac Emmons Church and ParaleeChildress (White) Church. William and Sallie Bryan were the parents of twochildren:. . . Mary Belle Bryant (3.6.1), b. August 29, 1868, Williamsport, Tennessee. . . Robert Emmons Bryant (3.6.2), b. March 20, 1870, Duck River, TennesseeIn 1870, William and Sarah Bryan were living in Maury County, Tennessee.Sallie (Church) Bryan died on September 22, 1871 and was buried in the ChurchCemetery in Hickman County, Tennessee. On February 13, 1872, William D.Bryan married a second time to Ellen Dowaine (born July 6, 1855 in Tennessee)and they had eleven children:. . . Sallie Lenora Bryan, b. January 19, 1873, Maury County, Tennessee. . . Willie Charlotte Bryan, b. October 18, 1875, Maury County, Tennessee. . . Thomas Samuel Bryan, b. August 28, 1876, Maury County, Tennessee. . . Ida Lou Bryan (3.6.6), b. December 23, 1877, Maury County, Tennessee. . . George Braion Bryan, b. September 3, 1879, Maury County, Tennessee. . . James Greenfield Bryan, b. May 18, 1881, Maury County, Tennessee. . . Edd Mangram Bryant (3.6.9), b. July 31, 1883, Maury County, Tennessee. . . Odie Elizabeth Bryan (3.6.10), b. February 23, 1885, Maury County, Tennessee. . . Ella Mae Bryan (3.6.11), b. April 11, 1887, Williamsport, Tennessee. . . Walter Eardley Bryan, b. December 8, 1889, Maury County, Tennessee. . . Maston Church Bryan, b. March 12, 1893, Maury County, TennesseeFrom 1880 to 1910, William and Ellen Bryan were living in Maury County,Tennessee. William D. Bryan went all over Middle Tennessee and some ofSouthern Kentucky with his steam engine and thresher (plus his crew ofworkers) and threshed wheat. After William DeMoss Bryan became disabled bythroat cancer, his son Maston C. Bryan continued with the business. They laterfired the engine with coal and operated the thresher with a tractor. WilliamDeMoss Bryan died on October 9, 1919 in Williamsport, Tennessee and Ellen(Dowaine) Bryan died on January 21, 1932.Sallie L. Bryan died unmarried on October 25, 1936. Willie Bryan married JohnAlderson and they had no children. Willie (Bryan) Alderson died on January 8,1934. Thomas S. Bryan died as an infant on September 13, 1876. GeorgeBraion Bryan died as an infant. James “Major” Bryan worked in Maury County,Tennnessee as a young man as a farmer. Major worked with the threshingoperation with his father until the Morman movement came through middleTennessee. He joined it and worked his way through to the west coast. JamesBryan never married. James Bryan was accidently killed by a runaway horse inCalifornia on November 15, 1917, where he is buried.Walter Eardley Bryan served in the United States Army during World War I.Walter Bryan never married. Walter Eardley Bryan died on October 13, 1950.Maston Bryan spent his entire life in Maury County. He attended school at the