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Re: William Bryant, Bryant's Station

The following should get you started; not really Civil war material but important as they were a major family in Boone County MO prior to the war. It would be interesting to see it the tied back to the William Bryant clan of Cass Co./Jackson Co. who was involved with Upton Hays. (see M. Franklin post at

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Good Hunting.
John R.

William Bryant
Birth: 1754 in North Carolina
Death: 6 SEP 1834 in Boone County, Missouri
Death: BEF. 23 OCT 1824 in Boone County, Missouri
Note:
Birth date and place given by other sources as 1739, Wales (information from Norma Nyberg, GSCM Reporter Quarterly 12(2) Summer 1993, 50-51). Nyberg listed the following children in addition to Jeremiah: Hiram Bryant, Huram Bryant, Thomas Bryant born 10 January 1795; Benjamin Bryant, Rachel Bryant, Susan Bryant, Henry Bryant was born in 1802, William Bryant, George Bryant, Elizabeth Bryant. No citation of sources.

This information on date and place of birth provided 05/14/2000 from based on statement in his pension application. William Bryant claim number in the U. S. National Archives is s-16660 and award is 22339. ref to date of birth. Ray Burgess, Watsonville, California 95076.

Extensive data received 8/30/2001 from James E. Sublett, 5831 Sierra Cielo Rd., Irvine, CA 92612. He provides data that the name of William Bryant's father was possibly Thomas Bryant.

Lived in Fayette, Clay, and Estill Counties, KY; on the 1807 and 1811 Clay Co., KY, tax lists; 1810 census, Clay Co., KY.

Will recorded, Boone Co., MO., Deed Book A, p. 292. Will #534.

Evans and Thompson, Wills and Administrations of Boone Co., MO, p. 24:
BRYANT, WILLIAm - No. 534 - Will. Gr. Oct. 23, 1824. w. Nancy Bryant; s. Henry, Thomas, Benjamin, Hiram, Jeremiah, William & George Bryant. d. Elizabeth S. Triplet. Wit. Sept. 27, 1824 by P. M. Dillon, Patrick Lawless.

25 June 1833 applied for a Revolutionary War pension, application #S16660, Boone Co., MO, age 79; granted a pension 17 October 1833.

NOTE BY VED: The pension date seems incompatible with the granting of the above administration of his will. Was the will made and recorded to settle the inheritances of the children of the first marriage and of the second wife, but not actually administered in 1824?

Marriage 1 Rachel Wilcoxson b: ABT. 1754 in Rowan County, North Carolina
Married: ABT. 1790 in North Carolina
Children
William Bryant b: ABT. 1790
Jeremiah Bryant b: 20 AUG 1791 in Estill County, Kentucky
Hiram Bryant b: ABT. 1793 in Fayette County, Kentucky
Huram Bryant b: ABT. 1793 in Fayette County, Kentucky
Thomas Bryant b: 10 JAN 1795
Rachel Bryant b: ABT. 1798 in Kentucky
Susanna Bryant b: ABT. 1800 in Fayette County, Kentucky
Benjamin Bryant b: 17 AUG 1800 in Fayette County, Kentucky
George Bryant b: ABT. 1802
Henry Bryant b: ABT. 1802
Elizabeth S. Bryant b: BEF. 1810

Marriage 2 Nancy Wood b: BEF. 1796
Married: ABT. 1825
Children
Sabrina Bryant b: ABT. 1826
Polly Ann Bryant b: ABT. 1828
Florinda Bryant b: ABT. 1831
George W. Bryant b: ABT. 1833
Sirina Bryant b: ABT. 1834

Name: William Bryant
ALIA: William /Briant/
Birth: ABT. 1790
Death: BEF. 29 SEP 1845 in Boone County, Missouri
Note:
1830 census, BRIANT, William 5-127, Cedar Township.

Evans and Thompson, Wills and Administrations of Boone Co., MO, p. 29:
BRYANT, WILLIAM - No. 628 - Adm. John Ellis, Admr. Gr. Sept. 29, 1845. F.S. Dec. 17, 1851. Heirs - Hiram Bryant's heirs of Boone Co., Jeremiah Bryant's heirs Henry Bryant, Susan Hutcherson, residence unknown. Hiram who is supposed to be dec. resided in Ky., Thos. Bryant res. unknown, Ben Bryant, res. unknown.

Father: William Bryant b: 1754 in North Carolina
Mother: Rachel Wilcoxson b: ABT. 1754 in Rowan County, North Carolina

Marriage 1 b: BEF. 1796
Married: BEF. 1810 in Probably Clay County, Kentucky

Name: Thomas Bryant
Sex: M
Birth: 10 JAN 1795
Death: 5 SEP 1845 in Ripley County, Missouri

Father: William Bryant b: 1754 in North Carolina
Mother: Rachel Wilcoxson b: ABT. 1754 in Rowan County, North Carolina

Marriage 1 Mary Bennett b: BEF. 1803
Married: 11 DEC 1817 in Estill County, Kentucky

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