Pike County AlArchives Biographies.....Bryan, Yancey L. 1846 - 1880
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Author: Memorial Records of Alabama 1893

                         Bryan Family Records
       Memorial Records of Alabama 1893, Pike County section
 
Yancey L. Bryan
  Planter of Grimes beat 8, was born near Troy on the Ozark rd. 
in 1846. He was the son of John and Elizabeth ( Gibson ) Bryan, 
natives of Sumpter district S.C., who recieved an ordinary education 
and married there at an early day, possibly prior to the removal of 
the Indians from Alabama.He came to Alabama and settled in the woods, 
four miles below Troy, when there were yet a few scattered Indians, 
and when the white settlers were few and far between. He improved 
his farm and spent therest of his life thereon, dieing in 1880. His wife 
died in July, 1890. Both were members of the Primitive Baptist church 
for many years.Mr. Bryan was a well-to-do farmer, rather retiring in his 
disposition, a hard working industrious and honest man.He and a brother 
were all the family that ever came to Alabama. Samuel Gibson the maternal 
grandfather of Yancy L. Bryan, was probably a native of South Carolina and 
removed from that state first to Florida and then to Pike County, Alabama, 
a few years before Mr. Bryan settling twelve miles below Troy, and died there 
about the beginning of the war, he was the father of a large family. Yancey 
L. was the seventh in a family of five sons and five daughters, all but one of 
whom is living. William, deceased, was in the 37th Alabama Inf., but who 
contracted measles, and had to be sent home, Andrew of Dale county 
( Barnes Crossroad ), who was in the 37th Alabama Inf.,all through the war, 
and who was captured at Vicksburg, Emaline, wife of Isaac Wood, Mellison, 
wife of John Sanders, Susan,wife of John Freeman, Adeline, wife of Marion 
Carroll, Yancey L. Bryan,Lorenzo D., Sidney, Frances, wife of Fred Burke, all 
reared and educated in the neighborhood. In December,1863, when but 
seventeen years old, Yancey L.Bryan joinrd the Fifty Seventh Alabama Inf. 
company F. and spent a short time on the coast at Pollard, then went to north 
Georgia, and fought at Resaca and all the way back to Atlanta, then to 
Jonesboro and back with Hood to Franklin and Nashville where he was on pickett 
duty the first day and was captured after a desperate defense and after 
shooting away all his ammunition, he was captured about dark on December the 
15th and was in the old penitentiary yard a few days and was sent to Camp 
Douglas where he remained till the third Sunday in June 1865. He had very 
scanty food and suffered almost unendurable hardships.While he was in many 
severe engagements, he was never wounded, after the close of the war he came 
home and returned to farming. 
In April 1866, he married Susan, daughter of Henry and Helen Pinckard, Mr. 
Pinkard being one. of the prominent farmers of Pike county, where he has lived 
a good while, his wife having died many years ago. Mrs. Bryan died in 1884, 
leaving nine children,all of whom are living. She was a member of the 
Missionary Baptist church. 
In April 1885, Mr Bryan married for the second time, Amy, daughter of William 
and Sally Harrington, natives of Georgia where they spent all their lives. Mr. 
Harrington died in the Army Mrs. Harrington died durning the war. Mrs. Bryan 
was born in Georgia and when quite small,came with her grandfather Enoch Bragg 
to Pike county,Alabama, where she was reared and educated. Mr. Bryan first 
settled near Brundridge for a few yaers, remaining  in the neighborhood of his 
birth place till 1885, and since then he has lived on his present farm at 
Hillard's cross. road. Here he has a fine farm of 464 acres, and has about 175 
acres of it under cultivation. He has been a hard working man and has 
accumulated what property he has by his own industry and good management. He 
has places nearly all the improvements on his present farm, and is one of the 
most practical farmers in the county. While he is a earnest democrat he has 
never been an aspirant for any kind of political honors of office, preferring 
to devote himself to his noble calling of agriculture.


Additional Comments:
I got this going through my great grandfather John Franklin Dawseys
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