John Bryan [Parents] was born on 6 Feb 1785 in Jones County, North Carolina. He died in Jan 1869. He married Mary Tootle.
Other marriages:Bryan, Ann Zilpha
Mary Tootle.Mary married John Bryan.
John Bryan [Parents] was born on 6 Feb 1785 in Jones County, North Carolina. He died in Jan 1869. He married Ann Zilpha Bryan.
Other marriages:Tootle, Mary
Ann Zilpha Bryan [Parents].Ann married John Bryan.
She is the daughter of John Bryan's uncle William Bryan. (First Cousins Married)
Edward Bryan [Parents] was born on 2 Aug 1789 in Jones County, North Carolina. He died on 30 Mar 1860. He married Eliza Bruce Ellington.
Eliza Bruce Ellington.Eliza married Edward Bryan.
James Bryan [Parents] was born about 1791. He married Rebecca Exum.
Rebecca Exum.Rebecca married James Bryan.
She is a widow, James and Rebecca had no children.
William Bryan [Parents] was born about 1793 in Jones County, North Carolina. He died in Jul 1837 in Greenwood, Gadsden Co., Florida. He married Martha 'Patsey' Hodges Bryan on 11 Jan 1821 in Pulaski County, Georgia. William resided about 1824 in Neighbor to Richard Grist on River Road, B, EC, Georgia. He resided about 1830 in Moved to Greenwood, near Marianna, Jackson Co, Florida.
William moved to Early County, Georgia and later to Florida.He was the fourth son of Edward and Susannah Blackshear Bryan. William was probably the first Bryan to arrive along the Chattahoochee River. He was living next door to the widow of Joseph Bryan in Deactur County, Georgia during the 1830 Census. At this time his age was 30 -40 while Martha 'Patsey' Hodges Bryan, his wife, was 20 - 30 years in age. Patsey was a common nickname for Martha in that time. They had a son and a daughter under 5 and one daughter under 20 years. He was living on his mother's land in Alabama when his mother drew up her will in 1834. Then he moved his family to Greenwood, Jackson County, Florida near Marianna, Florida where he died. His widow, Martha 'Patsey' Hodges Bryan then married her neighbor, Samuel B. Gammon. (From Grandmother's Trunk by Mary Grist Whitehead).
In 1826 Jackson county, Florida, land was offered for sale at Tallahassee. The county was named for Andrew Jackson who came into the area in 1818. There were more Indians than whites living there in 1825 and the 1825 census stated a population of 2236 people, equal as to whites and blacks. Leon County, 996 and Gadsden 1347. Florida had only become a territory in 1822 and there were less than five thousand people in the state. Most of these people lived around St. Augustine and Pensacola. This was called Chipola County in 1829. It was populated with wildlife and insects. The Jackson, Gadsden and Leon Counties had limerock foundations which formed springs, caves and underground streams. This was considered the richest land in Florida. (History of Jackson County, 1950 by J. Randall Stanley)
Martha 'Patsey' Hodges Bryan [Parents] was born in 1805 in Pulaski County, Georgia. She married William Bryan on 11 Jan 1821 in Pulaski County, Georgia.
Other marriages:Gammon, Samuel B. , Squire
They had the following children:
M i Blackledge Bryan was born in 1825 in Georgia. M ii Joseph M. Bryan was born in 1833.
Richard Grist [Parents] was born on 2 Nov 1802 in Washington County, Georgia. He died on 28 Nov 1846 in Ft. Gaines, Georgia. He was buried in Nelo Park Cemetery, Fort Gaines, GA. He married Mary Bush Bryan on 19 Aug 1824.
Richard Grist is buried at Ft. Gaines, Georgia. He and his wife Mary Bush Bryan are first cousins.
Mary Bush Bryan [Parents] was born on 21 Sep 1804 in Jones County, North Carolina. She died on 25 Mar 1849 in Ft. Gaines, Georgia. She was buried in 1849 in Nelo Park Cemetery, Fort Gaines, GA. She married Richard Grist on 19 Aug 1824.
Mary Bush Bryan is buried at Ft. Gaines, Georgia. She and her husband Richard Grist are first cousins.
They had the following children:
M i Richard James Frederick Grist was born on 27 May 1825. He died on 16 Apr 1886.
Elijah Bryan [Parents] 1 was born in 1793. He died in 1852. He married Elizabeth Penelope (Betsy) Bryan in 1824.
Early settlers in Greenwood, Jackson County, Florida. Colonel Elijah Bryan was a large land owner in Florida, Alabama and Georgia. From the 1845 Tax Roles, Colonel Elijah Bryan had 46 slaves and plantation of 2500 acres. The Bryan plantation was located two miles South of Greenwood. It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is owned by the Claude Reese family. This information was taken from the book "History of Jackson County", Stanley, Pages 142-143.
Elizabeth Penelope (Betsy) Bryan [Parents] was born on 24 Apr 1808. She died in 1870. She married Elijah Bryan in 1824.
Betsy and Elijah lived at Greenwood, Florida. They are first cousins. Their son Hamilton Grist Bryan is Laura Virginia Bryan's (Lakeland, Florida) ancestor.
They had the following children:
M i Hamilton Grist , Sr. Bryan was born in 1831. He died in 1886. F ii Emily M. Bryan. M iii Norval Bryan. F iv Harriet Mary Bryan. F v Anne Bryan. M vi Joseph N. Bryan. M vii Franklin Bryan. F viii Penelope A. Bryan. F ix Georgia C. Bryan. F x F. Louisiana Bryan. F xi Laura E. Bryan. M xii Robert B. Bryan. M xiii Elijah J. Bryan. F xiv Lizzie J. Bryan.
William Bryan.William married Susan Harrison.
Susan Harrison.Susan married William Bryan.
Other marriages:Bryan, William
They had the following children:
F i Ann Zilpha Bryan.
William Bryan [Parents] was born about 1765. He married Susan Harrison.
Susan Harrison.Susan married William Bryan.
Other marriages:Bryan, William
Benjamin Hodges. Benjamin resided before 1821 in Early County, Georgia.
He had the following children:
F i Martha 'Patsey' Hodges Bryan was born in 1805.