Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 
1887, Jessamine Co.

THE BRYAN FAMILY.  Among the early settlers of Kentucky were the Bryan
brothers, William and Samuel, who were companions of Boone.  William was
born March 7, 1733, and married Mary Boone, sister of Daniel Boone; she
was born November 10, 1736, and died in July, 1819.  William was killed
by Indians at Bryant's Station.  Daniel Bryan was a son of William and 
Mary (Boone) Bryan, was born in Kentucky, February 10, 1758, and married
Elizabeth Turner of North Carolina, daughter of Roger T. Turner.  He had
ten children: Louis, William, Samuel, Daniel, Joseph, Thomas, Sallie
(Mrs. William Barr), Elizabeth (Mrs. Jeremiah Vardeman), Mary (Mrs. 
Andrew Kay) and Phoebe (Mrs. John Womack).  Daniel Bryan appears to 
have been one of the progressive men of his day; he received only such 
education as the common schools afforded in the county at that time.  He
bought a farm which was located just beyond the line of Jessamine and 
Fayette Counties, on the Lexington and Nashville Turnpike, the present 
residence of Joseph H. Bryan, his grandson.  He built a female seminary,
where for many years the daughters of the first and early families of 
the neighboring counties were educated; he also built mills for the 
manufacture of paper, also operated a grist-mill at the same place.  The
mills were located upon Jessamine Creek.  He also owned 2,000 acres 
located on what was then known as South Elkhorn and East Hickman.  In 
1812 he was engaged in the manufacture of guns and gunpowder for the 
United States Government.  The children born to Louis Bryan and wife, 
Polly Cartmell, were named as follows:  Eliza (Mrs. Isaac Barkley, Ky.),
Asa, Samuel, Mary (Mrs. Benj. Curd, Ky), Sallie, (Mrs. Edward Turner, 
Ky.), Emily (Mrs. Johnson, Missouri) and Rebecca (Mrs. Elder Weeks, 
Missouri).  The children born to Samuel and his wife, Ella Higbee, were 
Albert, Hester (Mrs. John Hurst), Elizabeth (Mrs. Aaron Burns), Ellen 
(Mrs. Thomas Finley, Missouri), Mary (Mrs. Reuben Brown, Missouri), 
Charles, Edwin, Anna (Mrs. William Barr, Missouri), Sallie, Samuel, 
John and Alice.  To Daniel Bryan there were no children born. The
children born to Joseph Bryan were named Elijah, Daniel, Mary C., (Mrs.
Dr. Henry Blackburn, Ky.), Theodore and Joseph H.  The children born to 
Thomas Bryan were Phoebe (Mrs. John Cassell, deceased), Thomas and Mary 
B.  THe wife of Thomas Bryan was Mary Kay.  Sallie Bryan (Mrs. William 
Barr) is the mother of the following children: Zachariah, Louis, Eliza, 
Marietta and Sallie M.  Elizabeth Bryan (Mrs. Jeremiah Vardeman) is the 
mother of several children.  Mary Bryan (Mrs. Andrew Kay) has borne the 
following children: John, Daniel, Lewis, Lucy, Sallie, Elijah, Byron and
Todd.  Phoebe Bryan (Mrs. Womack) has had four children: Samuel, John 
(killed in the Mexican war), George and Sarah.  William T. Bryan married
Miss Margaret Gist, and to this union have been born William, Sallie, 
George, John, Lewis, Margaret, Daniel B., James, Mary, Morton, 
Alexander, Andrew, Christopher C. and Massie.

Boone Turner Barr Vardeman Kay Womack Barkley Curd Johnson Weeks Higbee
Hurst Burns Finley Brown Blackburn Cassell Cartmell Bryan Gist
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Fayette-KY NC MO

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