MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - John R. Bryant
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JOHN R. BRYANT, farmer and stock raiser, was born February 17, 1849, in
Marshall County. He was reared on the farm and received a common English
education. At the age of seventeen he took charge of his father's farm and
worked out the indebtedness of the estate. In 1870 he wedded Ada S. Pickens, a
native of the county, born August 7, 1849. They are both active members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Bryant has a
good farm of 173 acres, nearly all of which he had made by industry and close
attention to business. Mr. Bryant has lived in Marshall County all his life,
and is a good farmer and an honest, upright citizen. He is the son of William
T. and Mary E. (Hill) Bryant. The father was born about 1822 in North
Carolina, and about 1837 came with his parent to this county. the mother was
born in Maury County in 1824, where they were married. They soon settled in
this county and made it their permanent home. They have a family of four
children -three boys and on girl. Two of the boys are farmers or the
neighborhood, and the third ia cotton trader in Texas. The father is a
Democrat in politics, and followed the calling of a farmer and stock raiser.

Surnames: Bryant, Hill, Pickens
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."