Champaign County IL Archives Biographies.....Bryan, Malinda 1812 - 
************************************************

Copyright.  All rights reserved.

http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm

************************************************



File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Judy Harvey judycharvey@gmail.com September 17, 2007, 10:50 pm

Author: Milton W. Matthews & Lewis A. McLean

Mrs. Malinda Bryan was the first bride in Champaign county.She was born in 

Shelby county,Kentucky, in 1812, and resided with her parents, Isaac and Sarah 

Busey, until she was nineteen years old, when she came with them to Vermilion 

county, in 1831.Champaign was seperated from Vermilion in May,1833 and Miss 

Malinda Busey was married to John Bryan July 25, of the same year by Esquire 

J. B. Thomas, of Homer.Soon after their marriage they went to Kentucky to 

visit the scenes of her youth and spend the honeymoon with the friends of her 

childhood days not in a palace car nor in a fine carriage, but on 

horseback.Mrs. Bryan rode the same horse to Kentucky and back five times 

before the iron horse came to supplant this primitive method of locomotion.

  She was converted and baptized in May 1834, under the minisration of Isaac 

B. Newell, who was the preacher that in later years organized the Baptist 

church in urbana.

  Mrs. Bryan remembers vividly a number of indian scares, especially during 

the time of the Blackhawk War, when she declares that they felt certain that 

old Blackhawk himself was coming on more than one occassion.John Bryan died 

July 6,1863. 

  Mrs. Bryan has a daughter in Chicago, one in Rantoul, wife of F.M.Avey, also 

one son there.three sons and one daighter lie buried by the side of their 

father in the Bryan graveyard, near Mahomet.

  Mrs. Bryan resides in Rantoul and regularly attends the old settlers' 

meeting every year, where she is an object of great interest because she is 

the first woman that entered upon the sea of matrimony within the borders of 

Champaign county.She is active and intellegent and it is to be hoped she may 

continue to meet with the pioneers of the county each succeeding year for many 

years to come.

Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/champaign/photos/bios/bryan27bs.gif

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/champaign/bios/bryan27bs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ilfiles/

File size: 2.4 Kb