MACON COUNTY, GA - CEMETERY BRYAN FAMILY ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Meredith Clapper http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002801 BRYAN FAMILY CEMETERY Tombstones on-line at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/macon/photos/tombstones/bryan.htm Location: Located on land originally belonging to Nathan Bryan. (8th Dist LL110) Only 4 marked graves. These are buried here based on Letters. See letters below: Little Bryan 20 May 1780 -10 Oct 1836 Elizabeth Magruder Bryan 17 Jul 1781- 7 Feb 1854 Nathan Bryan [son of Little & Elizabeth] 26 Jan 1803-29 Jan 1868 Mary Lofley Bryan [wife of Nathan] 10 Nov 1802-20 Jul 1879 Andrew Jackson Bryan [son of Nathan & Mary] 5 Mar 1835-5 Oct 1865 Jasper Newton Bryan [son of Nathan & Mary] 26 Mar 1840-27 Apr 1892 Greene McCarty 1840-bef. 1861 [son of Winnifred Bryan & William Bluett McCarty] William A. McCarty 1839-8 May 1862 [son of Winnifred Bryan & William Bluett McCarty] James Madison McCarty 1842-27 Sep 1861 [son of Winnifred Bryan & William Bluett McCarty] Amelia H. Bryan Bodie [dau of Little & Elizabeth] born 1820-1825 d. before 1850 Allsa/Alsa/Alse Bodie 2 Oct 1817-before 1850 4 other Bodies--maybe children of Amelia & Alsa. I'm 99% sure that these people are buried there but not marked: John Langston Bryan [son of Nathan & Mary] 3 May 1822-7 Feb 1896 Elizabeth Perrellen Potts Bryan [first wife of John] 15 Oct 1826-2 Jul 1866 Children of John Langston Bryan & Elizabeth Potts---- Christopher Columbus Bryan 27 Aug 1847-12 Oct 1851 Nathan Bryan 9 Nov 1851-1 Sept 1863 Baby Bryan 26 Dec 1857-18 Jan 1859 John William Potts Bryan 2 Nov 1859-9 Sept 1863 James Anderson Bryan 15 Jun 1866-1 Oct 1866 Children of John Langston Bryan & second wife Almira Jackson Clark Bryan: Willie Jackson Bryan 24 Jul 1869-7 Oct 1872 Ernest Bryan 9 Oct 1881-23 Nov 1882 --------- Strong possibility these people are buried there: Magruder Bryan [son of Little & Elizabeth] born 1804-1810 died before 13 Aug 1846 Littleton Jesse Bryan [son of Magruder & Martha] 1838-3 Sep 1866 Zipporah Bryan Hewitt [dau of Little & Elizabeth; wife of Purnel W. Hewitt] c. 1810-bef. 1849 Gresham Bryan [son of Little & Elizabeth] born 1810-1815 d. before 1850 Mary Bryan Cummings [dau of Little & Elizabeth] 1825-1830 d. before 1840 James Warburton Cummings 30 Aug 1813-26 Dec 1838 Penelope Alford Lofley Cummings 22 Jan 1779-22 Sep 1868 [mother of Mary Lofley Bryan & James Warburton Cummings] Gray Cummings 18 Aug 1786-13 Sep 1844 [second husband of Penelope Alford] One of Mary Crawford Bryan's letters mentions that Nathan & Bluett McCarty had a falling out, so when Winnifred Bryan McCarty [Nathan's sister & Bluett's wife] died in 1865 along with her new baby, she was NOT buried in the family cemetery but a McCarty Garden cemetery was started on Bluett's land. Bluett moved away from Macon Co. with his second wife and the McCarty cemetery is now treated like regular farm land. ======== I've got copies of letters written by Mary Crawford Bryan (dau of Jasper Newton Bryan) written in 1943 that I probably should go ahead and post online but am not sure what category to put them under. She mentions the Bryan cemetery: "Little Bryan and his wife, Elisabeth, are both buried by Nathan & his wife & my father. The five graves are there side by side, in a row. Their graves were never marked, but as long as my father lived they were cared for & kept hilled up so you could tell exactly where they were." from another letter of hers: "Little [McCarty] was the oldest of the children that I knew. His those of the older McCarty boys are buried in the cemetery at home (sic). Greene died before the war, William and Madison died in battle & are buried side by side, but not near Greenes grave. Their bodies were brought home from the battlefield." from another letter: "Amelia Boddie was my grather's sister. My grandmother often spoke of Meely Boddie & of her family. She, Meely, & five other Boddies were buried in an inclosure inside the old graveyard that inclosure with its six graves stood there even after Jim took over, but it finally fell down & was not replaced."