History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
641.

SAMUEL BRYANT, son of Rawleigh D. and Ruth (Griffith) Bryant, was born 
Dec. 13, 1822, in Shelby County, Ky.  His father was a farmer.  When 
Samuel was fifteen months old his parents removed to Daviess County 
settling five miles south of Owensboro, on the Hartford road.  He was 
educated in the district schools of Daviess County, working meanwhile on 
his father's farm.  He lived with his father until he was thirty-five 
years old, when he married, Dec. 17, 1857, Harriet Phelon, a native of 
Shelby County, Ky.  After his marriage he purchased a farm of 229 acres 
on the Litchfield [sic] road, three and a half miles from Owensboro, 
where he still resides.  He has since purchased forty acres of land on 
Panther Creek.  Mrs. Bryant is a member of the Baptist church.  Mr. 
Bryant is recognized as one of the substantial farmers of the county, 
and by earnest industry and square dealing has made for himself a 
reputation of which he may well feel proud.  They have but one child, 
Raleigh D., who is married and now lives at home with his parents.  In 
politics Mr. Bryant is a Democrat.

Bryant Griffith Phelon 
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Shelby

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