Bryant Research Sources
I have been doing family research since graduating from high school in 1975. I owe much of my
success in pulling together information on the family to the Lord. I couldn't have done it without
inspiration and some divine help. My first clues came from the Biography of Abner M. Bryant. I
obtained additional information from my Great Aunts, Lois Bryant Newman and Helen Bryant,
who had old family papers kept by their mother. They helped me contact other Abner Bryant
descendants. I found another line of Abner descendants through an article on Oregon Giant
Pansys in the Sunset Magazine. After graduating from college in 1980, I traveled across the
country with some friends, stopping in Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana, and Kentucky to look up
Bryant information. This is when I got in contact with Alfred W. Johnson, who found me in the
Willard Library in Evansville, IN. He was a Wallace relative and saw I was researching the
Wallace and Bryant family from my guest registration. Through him I contacted Preston Bryant
relatives. I located the Eli D. Bryant line through a scrap of paper showing "George Trible,
Palco, Kansas" that was in my Great Grandmother's papers. I located the John T. Bryant line by
finding a phone listing for Mrs. Clifton Y. Wheelhouse in Indiana. She was the widow of the man
who married a relative 70 years earlier, and she placed me in contact with her step-daughter. The
Henry Bryant family was contacted through the Muskingum College Alumni Office, where a son
had taught and grand-children had attended. The Clinton Bryant family was located by first
obtaining his Civil War pension records, then by writing a letter to the editor of the local paper in
Kentucky. An in-law to the family happened to be passing through the town that very day from
Chicago, saw my request, and was able to put me in touch with my relatives, when nobody else
could have. I don't think it was just luck. I got in contact with the Violet Cockrum Kimball
branch while researching the Wallace family by finding a relative that shared this line. Finally,
after trying everything I could to find the Marion Bryant family, including prayers, Carol Smith
contacted me. Everyone in the family listed below has contributed in some way to the collection
of Thomas Briant descendants. I really appreciate your help. It would not have happened
without you.
Census
1810 Ohio Co., Kentucky Census - Thomas Briant
1820 Ohio Co., Kentucky Census - Thomas Bryant
1830 Ohio Co., Kentucky Census - Thomas Briant, Samuel Briant, H. T. Briant
1840 Ohio Co., Kentucky Census - Horatio T. Bryant
1850 Ohio Co., Kentucky Census - Samuel Briant, William Briant, Asa Briant
1850 Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky Census - Eli Briant
1850 Gibson Co., Indiana Census - Eli D., James A, Horatio T. Briant, John T., John W.
1860 Gibson Co., Indiana - Horatio and family, Eli D.
1860 Ohio Co., Kentucky - Susan A. Briant, William, John Wesley, Samuel, Susan (widow of Eli), John Wm.,
1870 Gibson Co., Indiana - Abner M., Clinton W., Preston A., Eli D., Marion W. Bryant, Samuel Bryant, James H. Bryant, John T. Bryant, Elizabeth (widow of David) Bryant, Violet Cockrum
1870 Ohio Co., Kentucky Census - John W. Bryant
1880 Gibson Co., Indiana - Preston A. Bryant, Nicholas Bryant, John W. Bryant, Riley G. Bryant, Elizabeth Bryant (widow of David), Violet J. Kimbal
1880 Bryant Twp., Graham Co., Kansas Census - Abner Bryant, Eli Bryant
1880 West Grove Twp., Davis Co., Iowa Census - Henry Bryant
1880 Ohio Co., Kentucky Census - William and John W. Bryant
1880 Almena Twp., Norton Co., Kansas Census - Marion W. Bryant
1885 Agricultural Census, Bryant Twp., Graham Co., Kansas - E. Bryant
1890 Polk Co., OR Veterans Census - Abner W. Bryant & Lizzie Bryant, widow of David Bryant
1900 South Monmouth Precinct, Polk Co., Oregon Census - Susan C. Bryant
1900 Oregon Census Soundex - Bryant - Earnest, Ida, Susan C, William C
1900 Whitman Co., Washington Census - Elizabeth and Eugene Bryant
1900 Ohio Co., Kentucky Census - John W. & Abram L. Bryant
1900 Douglas, Newman Co., Illinois Census - Henry W. Bryant
1900 Gibson Co., Indiana Census - LaSalle Bryant, James Boyd, Bell Bryant, Preston Bryant
1900 Almena Twp., Norton, Kansas - George Bryant
1900 Marion, Crittendon Co., Kentucky - Clinton W. Bryant
1900 Pidgeon Twp., Evansville, Vandenburg Co., Indiana - N. W. Bryant
1900 Phillips Co., Colorado - James Bryant
1920 Goldendale, Klickitat, Washington - James Bryant
Photos
Nancy Wallace Bryant - from Lois Bryant Newman
David Bryant - from Lois Bryant Newman
Preston A. Bryant family - from Mary Ann Ebert
Abner M. Bryant - from Alumni services, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana -
Abner M. Bryant - from Oregon Historical Society, Trover Collection, A-681 -
Marion Bryant - from Carol Smith
Clinton Bryant family - from Karen Proctor and Jan Grove
Henry W. Bryant family - from Jane Taracko
Miscellaneous Records
A Brief Biography of Abner McDonald Bryant of Co. "A" 58th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, by E. F. Bryant, Portland, Oregon, Kern Ptg. Co., Printers and Engravers, Union Block, 1897 - in the possession of Jeff Bryant
Some Descendants of John Endecott, Gov. of Mass Bay Colony by Mabel (McFatridge) McCloskey, Camden, Ind, 1943 and 1959
Indiana House of Representatives - Preston A. Bryant - 1891 - 1893
Elva Whealdon Bryant, Graduate of Oregon Normal School March 1933 from Moro
Moro IOOF Cem., Sherman Co., Oregon - William Cullen Bryant
Ohio Co., Kentucky Marriages - Horatio Bryant & Nancy Wallace 22 Aug 1829
The Kentucky Land Grants - Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds - Thomas Briant 1200 acres N. Fk Rough Creek 9-13-1783
Bryant Backtrails - Kenma Pub. Co., 1911 Conlin Ave, Evansville, IN 47714 - Jan-Mar 1977 issue
History of No Creek by Harry D. Tinsley 1953, Frankfort, KY
Preston A. Bryant biography in History of Gibson County Indiana by Elia W. Peattie, published
1897
Bureau of Land Management Land Patents, http://www.glorecords.blm.gov
Sunset Magazine - Article on Oregon Giant Pansy's
Biography - Alumni services, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana - Abner M. Bryant
Army Discharge Papers - Harold W. Bryant
Magazine Article - Northwest People - on Tom Heinonen
Journal of Elva Whealdon Bryant
Sherman Co., Oregon History
Scrapbooks of Ruth Bryant
Post City Directories for Portland Oregon - 1913, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1934, 1940, 1950, 1958 at Oregon State University
Willard Library, Evansville, Indiana
Interview - Bob Bryant
"The Grapevine", Edition 4, Jul-Aug 1990, First Presbyterian Church, Ft. Branch, Indiana
Annual Catalogue of the Indiana Asbury University for 1868-69
Muskingum College Alumni Office
Page from James Boyd family bible
Letter from the poet William Cullen Bryant to Sarah (Susan) C. Bryant giving blessing to use his
name, dated 4/16/1878
Obituaries
Obituary - Rev. H. W. Bryant
Obituary - Newman Independent, Newman, Illinois - Mrs. Sarah Bryant, wife of Henry Bryant, June 1930
Obituary - Sherman County Journal, Moro, Oregon 24 April 1931 - W. C. Bryant
Death Notice, Polk County Observer, 2/8/1895 Issue - Donald Bryant, son of Abner M. Bryant
Death Notice, Polk county Observer, 6/5/1896 Issue - Prof. A. M. Bryant
Obituary - Bill Bryant
Obituary - Oregonian, 2/2/1980 - Carol Krebs
Obituary - Goldendale Washington Sentinel - James E. Bryant
Obituary - Oregonian - Nathan E. Bryant
Obituary - Hood River News 12/7/1994 - Gregory C. Bryant
Death Certificate - State of Illinois - Sarah E. Bryant
Obituary - The Eugene Oregon Register-Guard, 8/2/1992 - Doug Newman
Obituary - Mary E. Bryant
Obituary - Oregonian 10/16/1959 - Nathan Elmo Bryant
Vital Records
Saunders Co., Nebraska Deeds
Montgomery Cemetery listing - Gibson Co., Indiana
Gibson Co., Indiana Marriages
Index to Death Record - Gibson County, Indiana 1880 - 1920
Index to Marriage Record, Gibson County, Indiana 1850 - 1920
Index to Supplemental Record Marriage Transcript - Gibson County, Indiana 1880 - 1920
Index to Birth Records - Gibson County, Indiana 1882 - 1920
Probate Records - Samuel Newcomb, Ohio county, Kentucky 1834
Social Security Death Index
Abner M. Bryant estate papers - Oregon State Archives
Polk Co., OR courthouse records - Land, A. M. Bryant probate, marriage
Falls City, OR Cemetery
Ohio Co., KY land records
Records from County Clerk, Gibson Co., Indiana - Horatio T. Briant probate and guardian records
Records from County Clerk, Ohio Co., Kentucky - Early Marriages
Records from County Clerk, Douglas Co., Illinois
Marriage License - Mr. Henry W. Bryant and Miss Sarah E. Wallace - from Jane Taracko
Marriage Certificate - W. C. Bryant to Elva Whealdon, dated 12/29/1904
Marriages and Early Consents 1799 - 1880 Ohio County, Kentucky, by Bettie A. Cook and Michael L. Cook, 1980
Will - Thomas Briant, Ohio Co., Kentucky, dated 28 July 1835, proven 10 August 1840
Will from Warrick Co., Indiana Will Book I - William Bryant, dated 24 Jan 1837
Marriage License - Abner M. Bryant and Susan C. Davis, 25 March 1865
Marriage Announcement - Princeton Daily Clarion, 4/6/1865 - Rev. Abner M. Bryant and Miss Susan C. Davis
Marriage Bond - Horatio T. Briant and Miss Nancy Wallace, dated 19 August 1836
Deed - Daniel Barry to Thomas Bryant, Ohio Co., Kentucky - 22 June 1810
Deed - Horatio T. Briant and Nancy Briant to John T. Briant, Gibson Co., Indiana, dated 23
January 1867, 30 acres
Military Records
Abner Bryant Civil War Discharge papers
Abner Bryant Civil War commission
Indiana Military Papers - Henry W. Bryant, David L. Bryant, Abner M. Bryant, Eli D. Bryant, Alexander H. Cockrum
National Archives Trust Fund Board - Military Service and/or Pension Papers - Clinton W. Bryant, David L. Bryant, Eli D. Bryant, Henry W. Bryant, Abner M. Bryant, Solomon Reavis, John W. Bryant, Alexander H. Cockrum
Roster of 58th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers
Old family Letters - Originals in the possession of Henry Freeman, Carol Smith and Jeff Bryant (obtained from Lois Bryant Newman or Robert Bryant)
Abner M. Bryant to his mother Nancy Wallace Bryant and father Horatio T. Bryant - 3/13/1862, 4/25/1862, 7/1/1862, 8/20/1862, 1/20/1863, 4/23/1863, 4/29/1863, 6/8/1863, 7/15/1863, 8/2/1863, 11/24/1863, 1/19/1864, 2/8/1864, 3/14/1864, 4/27/1864, 6/18/1864, 6/21/1864, 7/16/1864, 7/26/1864, 8/20/1864, 9/4/1864, 9/8/1864, 10/17/1864, 1/31/1866, 10/15/1866
Abner M. Bryant to his brother John T. Bryant - 5/20/1860, 1/24/1862, 2/10/1862, 5/18/1862, 10/6/1862, 11/3/1862, 11/6/1862, 12/9/1862, 12/20/1862, 1/10/1863, 2/4/1863, 2/21/1863, 3/6/1863, 3/16/1863, 4/3/1863, 4/4/1863, 7/30/1863, 8/7/1863, 10/22/1863, 10/28/1863, 11/22/1863, 3/7/1864, 10/17/1864, 5/26/1866
Abner M. Bryant to his brother Henry W. Bryant - 7/22/1862
Abner M. Bryant to his sister Cordelia Bryant - 4/30/1865
Abner M. Bryant to his brother Clinton W. Bryant - 11/11/1865
Abner M. Bryant to his wife Susan C. Bryant - 7/4/1867, 7/11/1867, 7/20/1867, 7/23/1867, 7/30/1867, 8/9/1867
Henry W. Bryant to his mother Nancy Bryant - 7/15/1863, 4/27/1864, 9/4/1864, 11/26/1865
Henry W. Bryant to his brother John T. Bryant - 8/7/1863
Henry W. Bryant to his brother Clinton W. Bryant - 11/11/1865
Henry W. Bryant to Cousin Mollie - 11/26/1865
Henry W. Bryant to his brother Abner M. Bryant - 9/1/1873
Marion W. Bryant to his brother Abner M. Bryant - 5/20/1874
Clinton W. Bryant to Myrtle Gustin - 10/14/1917, 10/17/1919
Wm D. Garten to Cousin Abner M. Bryant - 9/4/1873
Elva W. Bryant to Harold W. Bryant - 6/1933, 7/22/1933, 11/24/1933, 12/26/1957
Correspondence of Jeff Bryant
Virginia H. White - Asa Briant line - 4/6/1979, 2/2/1980, 1/8/1982
Alfred W. Johnson - 7/22/1980, 10/13/1980, 11/1/1980, 11/12/1980, 11/29/1980, 1/14/1981, 1/28/1981, 3/4/1981, 3/12/1981, 3/21/1981, 3/25/1981, 3/27/1981, 4/15/1981, 4/20/1981, 4/21/1981, 4/23/1981, 5/3/1981, 5/5/1981, 7/23/1981, 8/25/1981
Mrs. David Eugene Taylor - 5/25/1992, 8/27/1992, 9/16/1992, 8/21/1993
Greg Bryant - 1/7/1993
Russell Ford - 7/3/1992
Charles B. Findley - 10/28/1996
Lois Bryant Newman - 3/7/1981, 2/23/1982, 6/29/1982, 12/1984, 10/30/1987, 2/16/1989
Helen Bryant - 8/1/1989, 7/15/1981, 6/30/1982,
Pearl Bryant Schaplowsky - 6/18/1981, 7/2/1981, 7/20/1981, 9/6/1981, 11/3/1981, 12/1981, 3/29/1982, 5/7/1982, 12/8/1982
Joyce McGaughey - 12/1995, 12/1997
Billie Rayburn - 7/7/1992
Carol M. Krebs - 3/3/1979
Harry D. Tinsley - 3/29/1981
Virginia L. Carter - 6/16/1979, 10/13/1979, 10/1980
Evelyn Dickson - 9/9/1980, 10/10/1980
Mrs. Clifton Y. Wheelhouse - 10/1/1982
Virginia Thode - 2/22/1981
James O. Trible - 6/3/1981
Bernice F. Trible - 5/27/1981
Eunice Merkel - 10/1/1991
Mary Ann Ebert - 9/2/1991, 12/1995, 12/1997, 12/1998
Eleanor Wokasien - 11/12/1982, 2/7/1991, 12/3/1981
Robert Krebs - 2/24/1982
Lester Wilterdink - 9/5/1996, 8/14/1997, 12/1997, 7/2/1999
Dennis Bryant - 4/21/1998
Carol Smith - 3/6/1996, 3/30/1996, 4/27/1996, 5/20/1996, 7/15/1996, 9/11/1996, 10/8/1996, 12/12/1996, 12/28/1996, 12/1998
Meg Brockway - 3/10/1981, 1/5/1998
Karen Proctor - 6/17/1997
Jan Grove - 12/31/1997
Jane Taracko - 9/11/1991, 12/14/1991
Helen Bruckert - 3/19/1994
Jane Frees - 3/1994, 8/24/1994
Sherry Kaseberg
Visits
Alfred W. Johnson - 1980 Evansville, IN
Helen Marie Taylor - 1980
Trip in 1980 through Graham Co., KS, Wahoo and Weston, Nebraska, Gibson Co., IN, and Ohio Co., KY
Jan Grove - 7/1998
Telephone Calls
Russell Ford - 8/1992
Eleanor Ellis Doty
Harold O. Wilson
Bill Mathieson
Mrs. Clifton Y. Wheelhouse - 9/16/1982
Katherine Teel
Elizabeth Susott
Joyce Wargel
Mary Ann Ebert
Jane Bryant Taracko
Joyce McGaughey
Billie Rayburn - 1993
Karen Proctor - 1997, 1999
John Taracko -
Henry Freeman - 3/18/1990
Jay Cockrum - 8/2/1998
Lois Paden - 7/12/1998
Don Paden - 7/12/1998
Bruce Cockrum - 7/12/1998
B. J. Struempf - 4/7/1998
Helen Simmons - 1/11/1998
Jan Grove - 12/7/1997
Charles B. Findley - 9/1996
Alene Yowell - 10/25/92
James Stepp
Plus many others I neglected to record
E-Mail
Joyce McGaughey - jlm@gcnet.com - 1/19/1998
Debbie Kaelin - pigfish@swbell.net, <pigfish9@swbell.net> or <"pigfish("@swbell.net> - 2/2/1998
Ellen Piepho - e.bear.piepho@worldnet.att.net - 4/12/1999, 5/13/1999
Dennis Bryant - bryand@sockets.net - 4/5/1998, 8/24/1999
Glenn H. McKee <mckee@tir.com> - 3/18/1999
Jim Heathman <fawnhope@bluebon.net>
Ronald Struempf - marvin@siriussoft.com - 4/7/1998
David Struempf <kaloko@hotmail.com> - 4/2/1998
Clark Bryant - cbryant735@aol.com
Chris Bryant - chrisbry@inetnebr.com - 2/23/1998, 3/30/1999
Robert V. Woods - <echw@worldaccessnet.com>
Debra Saylor - dsaylor@geocities.com - 2/8/1998
Bob & Joyce Trotter - http://www.sengir.com/genealogy - joyce@sengir.com - 1/26/1998
Charles B. Findley - ccfind@aol.com
Joyce McGaughey - jlm@gcnet.com -
Mrs. Carl Wokasien - 75257.1340@compuserve.com
Carol Smith <cesmith@ucom.net> - 2/2/1998, 12/28/1998
Lois Paden <lpaden@fishnet.net> - 7/12/1998
Thomas McNutt <crisco@farmwagon.com>- 11/3/1998
Thomas N Malone SR <tnmsr@concentric.net> - 2/11/1998
Don Paden <paden@camasnet.com> - 7/12/1998
There are other contacts that I have made, but did not document. Please forgive any omissions.