James Louis Bryan was born 1840 in North Carolina, the 6th of 8 known surviving children (3 boys/5 girls) born to wealthy businessman/planter John Stevens Bryan Sr. and his wife, Lucy Davis Haywood.
He was the paternal grandchild of Gen. William Bryan, II and Elizabeth S. Gray of Bertie Co, NC; and gr-grandchild of William Bryan Sr. & Elizabeth Smith of Smithfield, Johnston County. He was a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, William Smith Bryan & Catherine Morgan of County Clare, Ireland who arrived in the English Colony of Virginia ca. 1650-1660. On his mother side, she was the maternal grandchild of wealthy planter Sherwood Haywood and his wife, Eleanor Howard Hawkins of Raleigh, Wake Co, NC.
James Louis Bryan died in infancy at age 5 months.
∼This info is from a cemetery survey compiled in 1940 by the Historical Records Survey of North Carolina located in the Wake County Family Records Collection, State Archives. Please be aware that I have found numerous errors in spelling and dates, which leads me to believe that whoever transcribed the original had trouble reading the handwriting.
He was the paternal grandchild of Gen. William Bryan, II and Elizabeth S. Gray of Bertie Co, NC; and gr-grandchild of William Bryan Sr. & Elizabeth Smith of Smithfield, Johnston County. He was a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, William Smith Bryan & Catherine Morgan of County Clare, Ireland who arrived in the English Colony of Virginia ca. 1650-1660. On his mother side, she was the maternal grandchild of wealthy planter Sherwood Haywood and his wife, Eleanor Howard Hawkins of Raleigh, Wake Co, NC.
James Louis Bryan died in infancy at age 5 months.
∼This info is from a cemetery survey compiled in 1940 by the Historical Records Survey of North Carolina located in the Wake County Family Records Collection, State Archives. Please be aware that I have found numerous errors in spelling and dates, which leads me to believe that whoever transcribed the original had trouble reading the handwriting.
James Louis Bryan was born 1840 in North Carolina, the 6th of 8 known surviving children (3 boys/5 girls) born to wealthy businessman/planter John Stevens Bryan Sr. and his wife, Lucy Davis Haywood.
He was the paternal grandchild of Gen. William Bryan, II and Elizabeth S. Gray of Bertie Co, NC; and gr-grandchild of William Bryan Sr. & Elizabeth Smith of Smithfield, Johnston County. He was a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, William Smith Bryan & Catherine Morgan of County Clare, Ireland who arrived in the English Colony of Virginia ca. 1650-1660. On his mother side, she was the maternal grandchild of wealthy planter Sherwood Haywood and his wife, Eleanor Howard Hawkins of Raleigh, Wake Co, NC.
James Louis Bryan died in infancy at age 5 months.
∼This info is from a cemetery survey compiled in 1940 by the Historical Records Survey of North Carolina located in the Wake County Family Records Collection, State Archives. Please be aware that I have found numerous errors in spelling and dates, which leads me to believe that whoever transcribed the original had trouble reading the handwriting.
He was the paternal grandchild of Gen. William Bryan, II and Elizabeth S. Gray of Bertie Co, NC; and gr-grandchild of William Bryan Sr. & Elizabeth Smith of Smithfield, Johnston County. He was a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, William Smith Bryan & Catherine Morgan of County Clare, Ireland who arrived in the English Colony of Virginia ca. 1650-1660. On his mother side, she was the maternal grandchild of wealthy planter Sherwood Haywood and his wife, Eleanor Howard Hawkins of Raleigh, Wake Co, NC.
James Louis Bryan died in infancy at age 5 months.
∼This info is from a cemetery survey compiled in 1940 by the Historical Records Survey of North Carolina located in the Wake County Family Records Collection, State Archives. Please be aware that I have found numerous errors in spelling and dates, which leads me to believe that whoever transcribed the original had trouble reading the handwriting.
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