Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Bryant, John Wesley July 9, 1837 - May 6, 1923
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Ron Martin cindyandron@bellsouth.net July 31, 2021, 3:36 pm

Source: Various sources including Ancestry, family stories, and The Diary of the Elder James Goode Lane Hash
Author: Ron Martin

John Wesley Bryant was born on July 9, 1837, the son of Fleming Hancock and Jane 
Bryant from the Dodson community.

Like many people in that area of Patrick County, he left his Patrick County home 
and served in the Civil War as a member of Company D of the 12th Virginia 
Infantry although he was hospitalized quite a bit during this time due to 
illness including ascites.

After his return, in 1870 he fathered a son, Larkin Green Martin with Aramatha 
Elizabeth "Math" Martin and six years later, a daughter, Lourinda Ellen Martin 
was born of this union.

Ultimately he married Judith Ann Cox on June 24, 1877. Within one year of their 
marriage, their first daughter Lelia Jane was born. Together they had two other 
daughters Fannie Matilda and Lila Elizabeth as well as two sons Thomas Obrine 
and Peter S. Bryant who both passed away at early ages.

His wife Judith passed away at age 71 on April 2, 1917. On September 4, 1920, he 
was baptized by the Elder James Goode Lane Hash in the Smith River near Union 
Primitive Baptist Church in Patrick County. In 1922, his oldest daughter Lelia 
Jane Bryant Wright passed away.

On Sunday, May 26, 1923, he passed away and was buried at a cemetery which bears 
his name even today, the John Wesley Bryant Cemetery which is located about two 
miles on a ridge in the forest behind the former home of Otis "Lightning" 
Setliff and Martha Ross Setliff on Heidelbach School Road on a very peaceful 
ridge just above the pond.

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