--He was the middle of 3 children of David Clement Bryan & wife Nancy Caroline Battle. Orphaned at the age of 3 1/2, Sidney was raised by an aunt and uncle, Ann Bryan Ingram and her husband William. Soon after Sidney's parents died, the Ingrams moved to Sabine County, TX. He was raised there along with his Ingram cousins. His 2 sisters were raised in Georgia by a different uncle and aunt in Georgia.
--Confederate Veteran. Sidney served as a private in 1st Texas Legion (Cavalry) 27th Regt., Company C as a teenager. He had 2 horses shot out from under him, but he was never injured.
--1870 Graduate of Emory, then located in Oxford, GA.
--He studied law and was preparing to take the bar exam when he felt the calling to preach.
--Occupation: Methodist Minister for 41 yrs. He twice served as District Superintendent in the North Georgia Methodist Conference. He served churches in Pike County, in Palmetto, GA, and in Forsyth, Lithonia, Griffin, Covington, Sparta, Marietta and lastly, First Methodist Church in Decatur, GA.
--Sid married Ella Pope on June 17, 1874. They had 7 children.
--He died at the Methodist parsonage in Decatur, GA, while serving as pastor of First Methodist Church in Decatur.
--Confederate Veteran. Sidney served as a private in 1st Texas Legion (Cavalry) 27th Regt., Company C as a teenager. He had 2 horses shot out from under him, but he was never injured.
--1870 Graduate of Emory, then located in Oxford, GA.
--He studied law and was preparing to take the bar exam when he felt the calling to preach.
--Occupation: Methodist Minister for 41 yrs. He twice served as District Superintendent in the North Georgia Methodist Conference. He served churches in Pike County, in Palmetto, GA, and in Forsyth, Lithonia, Griffin, Covington, Sparta, Marietta and lastly, First Methodist Church in Decatur, GA.
--Sid married Ella Pope on June 17, 1874. They had 7 children.
--He died at the Methodist parsonage in Decatur, GA, while serving as pastor of First Methodist Church in Decatur.
--He was the middle of 3 children of David Clement Bryan & wife Nancy Caroline Battle. Orphaned at the age of 3 1/2, Sidney was raised by an aunt and uncle, Ann Bryan Ingram and her husband William. Soon after Sidney's parents died, the Ingrams moved to Sabine County, TX. He was raised there along with his Ingram cousins. His 2 sisters were raised in Georgia by a different uncle and aunt in Georgia.
--Confederate Veteran. Sidney served as a private in 1st Texas Legion (Cavalry) 27th Regt., Company C as a teenager. He had 2 horses shot out from under him, but he was never injured.
--1870 Graduate of Emory, then located in Oxford, GA.
--He studied law and was preparing to take the bar exam when he felt the calling to preach.
--Occupation: Methodist Minister for 41 yrs. He twice served as District Superintendent in the North Georgia Methodist Conference. He served churches in Pike County, in Palmetto, GA, and in Forsyth, Lithonia, Griffin, Covington, Sparta, Marietta and lastly, First Methodist Church in Decatur, GA.
--Sid married Ella Pope on June 17, 1874. They had 7 children.
--He died at the Methodist parsonage in Decatur, GA, while serving as pastor of First Methodist Church in Decatur.
--Confederate Veteran. Sidney served as a private in 1st Texas Legion (Cavalry) 27th Regt., Company C as a teenager. He had 2 horses shot out from under him, but he was never injured.
--1870 Graduate of Emory, then located in Oxford, GA.
--He studied law and was preparing to take the bar exam when he felt the calling to preach.
--Occupation: Methodist Minister for 41 yrs. He twice served as District Superintendent in the North Georgia Methodist Conference. He served churches in Pike County, in Palmetto, GA, and in Forsyth, Lithonia, Griffin, Covington, Sparta, Marietta and lastly, First Methodist Church in Decatur, GA.
--Sid married Ella Pope on June 17, 1874. They had 7 children.
--He died at the Methodist parsonage in Decatur, GA, while serving as pastor of First Methodist Church in Decatur.
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