History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 669. OTTAWAY BRYANT was born in Shelby County, Ky., July 23, 1809. His parents were Samuel and Nancy (Williams) Bryant, natives of Virginia. Ottaway was the seventh son and eighth child of their thirteen children. He married Isabell Maddux Jan. 3, 1833. She was born in Virginia, and came with her parents to Henry County, Ky., when six years old. After Mr. Bryant was married he settled in Henry County two years, then moved to Jefferson County and farmed nineteen years; then, in 1867, came to Daviess County, Ky., and settled on his present farm. Mrs. Bryant is a member of the Baptist church. They have had eight children, three living--Elizabeth, wife of George Maples; Isabell; Hulda, who married Charles Noel, Jan. 6, 1876, and has three children--Sarah B., born Feb. 10, 1877; Mary B., June 7, 1880; Edgar T., born Sept. 8, 1882. Mr. Bryant owns a fine farm of 125 acres, eighty acres under cultivation. Mr. Bryant is a member of the Daviess County Grangers. In politics he is a Democrat. Bryant Williams Maddux Maples Noel = Shelby-KY VA Henry Jefferson http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/daviess/bryant.o.txt