Biographical Sketch of Alexander Bryan, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Alexander Bryan, a retired farmer of Pulaski County, is a native of
Ballard County, KY., and was born in March, 1823.  He was the fourth
in a family of six children, four sons and two daughters, born to
Moses A. and Eliza (Weaver) Bryan.  The mother, who was born in 
Kentucky, died in her native State when our subject was five years
old, and about one year later the father took his family to Maury
County, Tenn.  Moses A. afterward married Elizabeth Carival, and in
1858 located on the Gasconade River, in Pulaski County, when the 
county was almost a wilderness and white settlers were few.  He was
an enterprising farmer, and lived in Pulaski County until his death,
which occurred in 1873.  He was a member of the Baptist Church for
many years.  Alexander Bryan was fifteen years of age when he came
to Pulaski County, and in early life devoted much attention to hunting.
He is a farmer by occupation, and owns 155 acres on the Gasconade
River, where he has a good home; he also owns a two-thirds interest
in a flour and saw-mill in Richland, and after the war was engaged in
the hotel business at Waynesville for many years.  In 1861 he enlisted
in the Confederate army, and served about nine months under General
McBride, six months as bass drummer.  He afterward was enrolled in
Company A, Forty-eighth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, United States 
Army, where he served eleven months, and then went to his old home in
Tennessee, and was subsequently sent on garrison duty to Camp Douglas,
Chicago, where he remained until June, 1865.  When but seventeen years
of age Mr. Bryan was united in marriage with Sarah Jones, who died
about 1848; five years later he married Caroline York, who only lived
three years after marriage, and died leaving one son, Samuel, who 
died about 1882.  Mr. Bryan afterward married Mary, daughter of 
William and Elizabeth Carmack, and of the six children born to their
union only three daughters are now living.  Politically Mr. Bryan is 
a Democrat.

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