BRYAN FAMILY HISTORY - Interactive Family Histories

that our Bryan line has a second line that converted to the Mormon faith. John and Mary Bryan’s daughter, MaryBryan, married Thomas Huey. Thomas and Mary Huey had a daughter, Rebecca Huey, who married WilliamReed Orton. Many descendants of William and Rebecca Orton are members of the LDS church and at least sixdescendants have entered information into the Ancestral File. Several hundred descendants were extracted andcorrespondence should result in hundreds more being added to the manusript.SHELTON, WININGER AND PACE FAMILIES - Most of last two years was devoted to researching mypaternal grandmother’s lines and we received our third book from the printers in October of 1988. This 864 pagebook includes over 16,300 names in its index. With the publication my paternal (Casey) and maternal (Brooks)lines in the early 1980’s allowed time to pursue the next generation back, my paternal grandmother (Shelton) andmy maternal grandmother (Bryan). With the publication of my Shelton and related lines, research on the Bryanline will have highest priority of lines being researched.IMPORTANT DESCENDANTS ADDED TO BRYAN LINE - On May 20, 1987, my wife, Diane (Thede)Casey, gave birth to our first son, named Jordan Brooks Casey and then number two, Bryan William Casey wasborn on May 26, 1989. Jordan was named after his great great great great grandfather, Jordan Brooks and Bryanwas named after two uncles, Bryan Brooks and William Casey. Bryan Brooks was named from his mother’smaiden name, Julia Ann Bryan, the first of my Bryan line. Jordan and Bryan are my parents only grandsons (afterhaving five granddaughters from my two brothers). Needless to say, Jordan and Bryan impact the amount ofresearch getting done, but more cousins keep contributing to the manuscript and time is being found to continuethe compilation of our Bryan ancestry.RENEE (WATERS) HARRIS - Renee was the first descendant of Mary (Bryan) Huey contacted via her entriesinto the Ancestral File. She added to valuable information on the Huey family and many additional descendants.It is certain that she will contribute more on the earlier, Bryan, Huey and Orton lines.HUEY/ORTON RESEARCHERS - Was successful in contacting two additional researchers of this line, Thera(Johnson) Earl and Grant Orton Johnson, both living in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Both are descendants ofMary (Bryan) Huey as is Renee (Waters) Harris.CENSUS RECORDS - Many additional census records were located and compiled in the last two years whichprobably represents fifty percent of the time spent on Bryan research during this time frame. Actual censusrecords for related Bryans doubled during this period and added a couple of hundred additional individuals to ourhistory.1989 - 1991OTHER LINES - Most of the time during this period of time was devoted to other lines. The authors compiledseveral thousand Olliff cousins as well as added several thousand cousins to the author’s Casey, Tucker, Arringtonand Stevenson lines (all related to our Casey ancestry). On the personl side, my family relocated to Austin, Texasin October of 1989.RACHEL (ORTON) CAMPBELL - In 1991, it was discovered that one of the granddaughters of John and SarahBryan, Rachel (Orton) Campbell, had been extensively researched and that a descendant from this line lived onlya few miles from me in Austin, Texas. John T. Holman generously shared his Campbell files and gave me a copyof the 1974 manuscript on the Campbell line by Olive (Hotchkiss) Cartwright. John and two other Campbellresearchers had also compiled a manuscript on their Campbell line: “Hiel Orton Campbell and His descendants”which was updated in March of 1991. Also several dozen census records substantiated and enhanced this lineduring this period of time.MARGARET (BRYAN) ALLEN - In response to a query in the Rowan County Register, I contacted an Allenresearcher who is a descendant of what appears to be the brother of Thomas Allen who married Margaret Bryan,daughter of John and Sarah Bryan. Robert G. Allen provided the seed that got this line started. With new foundinformation from Robert G. Allen and the use of the local bulletin board system which carries the Fidonetgenealogy conferences, I contacted another Allen cousin, Alice (Allen) Grogan who provided some information onher Allen line.