Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Jeremiah H. BRYAN (b. 1840)

Source: History of Ray County, MO, published St. Louis: Missouri Historical Company, 1881.
pages 785-786


Jeremiah H. BRYAN

Jeremiah H. Bryan is a native of Virginia. He was born in Green county, on the 18th day of
December, 1840, and received his education in the schools of Rockingham county, near
Harrisburg. He followed farming for awhile, and also taught school for about three years in
Virginia. He then learned the carpentering trade, at which he still works at intervals. He was a
soldier in the following named battles: Second Manassas, Gettysburg, Antietam, Chancellorsville,
Port Republic, Cross Keys, Seven Pines, Petersburg, Hatcher’s Run, Richmond, and Appomattox,
besides many other minor engagements. Mr. Bryan was wounded at the battle of Jourdan Ridge.
He surrendered with the army of Virginia at Appomattox court house, April 9, 1865, having
served bravely and well in defense of the cause he believed to be just and right. Perhaps no other
man now living in this section of the country was in so many of the principal and hard-fought
battles of the war, and followed so closely the fortunes of the side he had espoused. When the
banner of "stars and bars" he had followed to so many battle-fields, and learned to love so well,
was "furled forever," Mr. Bryan returned to the quiet walks of peaceful life, and resumed the
cultivation of his farm. He was married in the month of April, 1867, to Miss Fannie Fridley, of
Rockingham county, Virginia. Three children were the issue of this marriage, but one of whom,
Birdie, is now living. Mr. Bryan owns a fine farm of one hundred acres in Crooked River
township, Ray county. He is a substantial and prosperous farmer, and enjoys the universal esteem
and respect of all who know him.


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