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

R. A. BRYAN was born June 11, 1830, in Nelson County, Ky.  He came to 
Daviess County May 1, 1853, and settled on the Hartford road, two miles 
southeast of Owensboro.  He lived there till 1882, and then sold to Wm. 
Norsely, and bought 165 acres of John Long, four miles west of 
Owensboro.  He was married in 1858 to Miss Kelly, a native of Daviess 
County, born Nov. 4, 1837.  They have seven children--Ida, Bell, Barton, 
Emmitt, Sallie, Peter and Katie.  They have two grandchildren--Lonnie 
Fowler and William May.  Politically Mr. Bryan is a Democrat.  He is a 
member of the Catholic church.

Bryan Norsely Long Kelly Fowler May
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Nelson

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