Spouse: Mary Ann Gadberry
Samuel Bryant, who was a native of Adair county died in Taylor county, where he had lived for the last twenty-five years, on March the 8th. He was 90 years, four months and twenty-one days old.
The Adair County news., March 20, 1912, page 1
Old Riverman Dead.
Samuel Bryant, aged 90 years, 4 months and 21 days, died at his home, about three miles north of this city, Friday morning, March 8, at 1:30 o'clock. The deceased was born on Green river, in Adair county, and was married in 1844, his wife having died some three years since at the age of 87.
Many citizens of Taylor and Adair counties knew "Uncle Sam," as he was familiarly named, and knew him as genial, humorous intelligent gentleman, fond of sport and as a fisherman of renown. His last fishing trip was in the
summer of 1911, while nearing his ninetieth anniversary and with his usual results ... a big string of fish. Possessed of remarkable strength of body and power of endurance, coupled with exceeding good health, he was
enabled to tramp 15 or 20 miles a day, even after his eighty-ninth year.
The summons came suddenly, cerebral hemorrhage, which he survived nine days only.
In his early years, Uncle Sam "took to the river" and made many trips on flatboats, loaded with tobacco, from the Green river section of Kentucky for the New Orleans market, returning by steamboat, on which he stoked to the
mouth of Salt river, thence by foot to his home, seventy-five miles distance. The seventy-five miles he walked in one day. On the flatboat, the hands were well supplied with the necessities of life, as well as the luxuries of the times, especially plenty of those two famous products of Kentucky, corn whisky and game cocks ... one barrel of the former and several coops of the fighters. The grand old time came on when the game boat tied up for the night. Staple corn juice in abundance, cock fighting and old sledge galore. The comic side of river life cannot be appreciated until related by such a man as Uncle Sam, embellished with native witicisms and delivered with a fine sense of the humorous. We, who know Sam Bryant best shall ever cherish pleasant memories of that jolly, good old man.
Mr. Bryant is survived by his sons, J. W. Bryant, of Taylor county, John Bryant, of Louisville; and daughters, Mrs Hannah Lee and Mrs. Holmes of Taylor county.
--News Journal.-
Samuel Bryant, who was a native of Adair county died in Taylor county, where he had lived for the last twenty-five years, on March the 8th. He was 90 years, four months and twenty-one days old.
The Adair County news., March 20, 1912, page 1
Old Riverman Dead.
Samuel Bryant, aged 90 years, 4 months and 21 days, died at his home, about three miles north of this city, Friday morning, March 8, at 1:30 o'clock. The deceased was born on Green river, in Adair county, and was married in 1844, his wife having died some three years since at the age of 87.
Many citizens of Taylor and Adair counties knew "Uncle Sam," as he was familiarly named, and knew him as genial, humorous intelligent gentleman, fond of sport and as a fisherman of renown. His last fishing trip was in the
summer of 1911, while nearing his ninetieth anniversary and with his usual results ... a big string of fish. Possessed of remarkable strength of body and power of endurance, coupled with exceeding good health, he was
enabled to tramp 15 or 20 miles a day, even after his eighty-ninth year.
The summons came suddenly, cerebral hemorrhage, which he survived nine days only.
In his early years, Uncle Sam "took to the river" and made many trips on flatboats, loaded with tobacco, from the Green river section of Kentucky for the New Orleans market, returning by steamboat, on which he stoked to the
mouth of Salt river, thence by foot to his home, seventy-five miles distance. The seventy-five miles he walked in one day. On the flatboat, the hands were well supplied with the necessities of life, as well as the luxuries of the times, especially plenty of those two famous products of Kentucky, corn whisky and game cocks ... one barrel of the former and several coops of the fighters. The grand old time came on when the game boat tied up for the night. Staple corn juice in abundance, cock fighting and old sledge galore. The comic side of river life cannot be appreciated until related by such a man as Uncle Sam, embellished with native witicisms and delivered with a fine sense of the humorous. We, who know Sam Bryant best shall ever cherish pleasant memories of that jolly, good old man.
Mr. Bryant is survived by his sons, J. W. Bryant, of Taylor county, John Bryant, of Louisville; and daughters, Mrs Hannah Lee and Mrs. Holmes of Taylor county.
--News Journal.-
Spouse: Mary Ann Gadberry
Samuel Bryant, who was a native of Adair county died in Taylor county, where he had lived for the last twenty-five years, on March the 8th. He was 90 years, four months and twenty-one days old.
The Adair County news., March 20, 1912, page 1
Old Riverman Dead.
Samuel Bryant, aged 90 years, 4 months and 21 days, died at his home, about three miles north of this city, Friday morning, March 8, at 1:30 o'clock. The deceased was born on Green river, in Adair county, and was married in 1844, his wife having died some three years since at the age of 87.
Many citizens of Taylor and Adair counties knew "Uncle Sam," as he was familiarly named, and knew him as genial, humorous intelligent gentleman, fond of sport and as a fisherman of renown. His last fishing trip was in the
summer of 1911, while nearing his ninetieth anniversary and with his usual results ... a big string of fish. Possessed of remarkable strength of body and power of endurance, coupled with exceeding good health, he was
enabled to tramp 15 or 20 miles a day, even after his eighty-ninth year.
The summons came suddenly, cerebral hemorrhage, which he survived nine days only.
In his early years, Uncle Sam "took to the river" and made many trips on flatboats, loaded with tobacco, from the Green river section of Kentucky for the New Orleans market, returning by steamboat, on which he stoked to the
mouth of Salt river, thence by foot to his home, seventy-five miles distance. The seventy-five miles he walked in one day. On the flatboat, the hands were well supplied with the necessities of life, as well as the luxuries of the times, especially plenty of those two famous products of Kentucky, corn whisky and game cocks ... one barrel of the former and several coops of the fighters. The grand old time came on when the game boat tied up for the night. Staple corn juice in abundance, cock fighting and old sledge galore. The comic side of river life cannot be appreciated until related by such a man as Uncle Sam, embellished with native witicisms and delivered with a fine sense of the humorous. We, who know Sam Bryant best shall ever cherish pleasant memories of that jolly, good old man.
Mr. Bryant is survived by his sons, J. W. Bryant, of Taylor county, John Bryant, of Louisville; and daughters, Mrs Hannah Lee and Mrs. Holmes of Taylor county.
--News Journal.-
Samuel Bryant, who was a native of Adair county died in Taylor county, where he had lived for the last twenty-five years, on March the 8th. He was 90 years, four months and twenty-one days old.
The Adair County news., March 20, 1912, page 1
Old Riverman Dead.
Samuel Bryant, aged 90 years, 4 months and 21 days, died at his home, about three miles north of this city, Friday morning, March 8, at 1:30 o'clock. The deceased was born on Green river, in Adair county, and was married in 1844, his wife having died some three years since at the age of 87.
Many citizens of Taylor and Adair counties knew "Uncle Sam," as he was familiarly named, and knew him as genial, humorous intelligent gentleman, fond of sport and as a fisherman of renown. His last fishing trip was in the
summer of 1911, while nearing his ninetieth anniversary and with his usual results ... a big string of fish. Possessed of remarkable strength of body and power of endurance, coupled with exceeding good health, he was
enabled to tramp 15 or 20 miles a day, even after his eighty-ninth year.
The summons came suddenly, cerebral hemorrhage, which he survived nine days only.
In his early years, Uncle Sam "took to the river" and made many trips on flatboats, loaded with tobacco, from the Green river section of Kentucky for the New Orleans market, returning by steamboat, on which he stoked to the
mouth of Salt river, thence by foot to his home, seventy-five miles distance. The seventy-five miles he walked in one day. On the flatboat, the hands were well supplied with the necessities of life, as well as the luxuries of the times, especially plenty of those two famous products of Kentucky, corn whisky and game cocks ... one barrel of the former and several coops of the fighters. The grand old time came on when the game boat tied up for the night. Staple corn juice in abundance, cock fighting and old sledge galore. The comic side of river life cannot be appreciated until related by such a man as Uncle Sam, embellished with native witicisms and delivered with a fine sense of the humorous. We, who know Sam Bryant best shall ever cherish pleasant memories of that jolly, good old man.
Mr. Bryant is survived by his sons, J. W. Bryant, of Taylor county, John Bryant, of Louisville; and daughters, Mrs Hannah Lee and Mrs. Holmes of Taylor county.
--News Journal.-
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