William Bryan Hyman, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted By Kay Thompson-Brown

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From Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (p. 422).....

HYMAN, Wm. Bryan, attorney, jurist. Born, Martin County, N.C. 4-30-1814; 
son of Samuel Hyman and Ann Gray Hyman. Education: University of N. 
Carolina, law degree, 1839. Removed to Alexandria, LA., established law 
practice. Married Hermenegildo Dolores Gonzales of Rapides Parish. Five 
children, among them were Thomas and Gertrude, who married Wm. Mithoff. 
Opposed secession and was in and out of trouble with Confederate authorities 
during much of the Civil War. In March, 1865, Unionist Governor J. Madison 
Wells, a friend of Hyman's from Alexandria, appointed Hyman chief justice 
of Louisiana's supreme court, a post he retained until November, 1868. 
Therafter judge of Jefferson Parish, 1871-1880. Judge W.B. Hyman died at 
New Orleans, Aug. 9, 1884; interred Carrollton Cemetery.

Sources: Barnes F. Lathrop, "Disaffection in Confederate Louisiana: The 
Case Of William B. Hyman" ...Journal of Southern History, (1958); Manuscript 
Census Returns, Rapides Parish, 1860; National Cyclopedia of American Biography 
(1900); New Orleans Daily Picayne, August 10, 1884.
Wayne Hendon, whose wife is Judge Hyman's gg granddaughter.