Backroads of Barren County, Ky., newspaper articles written by William 
Daniel Tolle 1877 thru 1920's, compiled by Sandra K. Gorin, Gorin 
Genealogical Publishing, copyright July 1991. pp. 11-13. Used by
permission.  [Beaver Creek area]

THE BRYAN FAMILY.  Below and adjoining this farm [Munday] a large body 
of land was settled in the long ago by James Bryan.  He raised a family 
of three sons and one daughter.  His eldest son James located in 
connection with Thomas J. Gorin.  They sold goods for probably over a 
lifetime.  Mr. Bryan was a very strict, steady and sedate man.  He was 
honest and upright in all his dealings and had the utmost confidence of 
all who knew him.  The general apellation applied to him was that of 
"judge."  He went out of regular business several years before his 
death, and made his home with his nephew on upper Depot Street in 
Glasgow, in a large brick house which he had built many years before.  
At his death he was well advanced in years, nearing the hundred mark.
	Albert, the second son of James Sen., came in possession of the 
homestead, and lived there until his death at a ripe old age.  He 
married Miss ELiza Settle, a daughter of Isaac Settle of Swearengen 
Creek.  Five children were born to them and raised to manhood and 
womanhood.  One of the girls married Ulinus Strater [sic] of Hiseville, 
another one married Dr. Thomas Wells.  The husbands are both dead.  The 
son James is our townsman familiarly called Jimmy.  He has spent nearly 
all of his life in Glasgow.  He as taken in the store by his uncle James 
at an early age, and has been connected with the mercantile business in 
some way or other pretty much ever since.  He is regarded by those who 
know him as a strict upright Christian gentleman.  He is a leading 
member of the Baptist church.
	Henry, the third son of James Bryan, Sen., married Caroline 
Settle, a daughter of Isaac Settle.  He opened a large farm between his 
father's place and Swearengen Creek.  He raised a large family of 
children.  He has long since been dead, his farm passed into other 
hands, and now occupied by different persons.  None of the children are 
owners of any portion of it.
	One girl is all I know of James Bryan, Sen., family.  She married 
Solomon Quesenberry, a noted person of the above-named community.

Munday Bryan Gorin Settle Strater Wells Quesenberry
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