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Sarah Bryan

1801-1870 · South Carolina
Born 1801, South Carolina
Died 1870
Children include Narcissis

Sarah Bryan was born in South Carolina about 1801. Her maiden name is not known. She married Ittai Bryan, a Georgia farmer of about her own age, by 1827. Their eldest daughter, Rebeccah M., was born on 7 November 1827, when they were living in Gwinnett County. Thomas Johnson followed on 27 June 1831, Nicholas about 1833, Narcissis Elizabeth on 19 June 1836 and James Nelson between 1840 and 1843. In 1840 there was also a son of fifteen to twenty in the house, whose name is not known.

In 1830 and 1840 the family lived in Gwinnett County next to the widow Nancy Bryan, very probably her husband's mother. Rebeccah married Charles H. Livsey in DeKalb County on 11 December 1845.

By 1850 the family had moved to the Blackhall district of DeKalb County, south of Atlanta. The assistant marshal came on 26 October 1850. He wrote Sarah as 49 and born in South Carolina, and he marked her as one of the adults in the house who could not read and write. Her children Nicholas and Elizabeth had been at school that year. Her neighbours on both sides, the households of James Head and Richard Head, were South Carolina people too.

She lived to see both younger sons go to the war and come home, and her daughter Narcissis widowed in 1862 and married again in 1866. She died in March 1870, of what the census of deaths called a bilious fever, a fever with heavy vomiting of bile. She was given as sixty five, married, and keeping house. Her husband died within the year. The family burying ground on their land lot 26, recorded in 1947 with two plain fieldstones and a broken tablet, is very probably where she lies.

Sources

Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, population schedule, DeKalb County, Georgia, Blackhall district, page stamped 185, dwelling 29; microfilm reel 55, archive.org item 7thcensus0055unit, image n648.
1850 United States census, DeKalb County, Georgia, Blackhall district, page stamped 185, dwelling 29, archive.org item 7thcensus0055unit, image n648; 1870 mortality schedule, Fulton County, Georgia, and the Gwinnett County censuses of 1830 and 1840, transcribed in Michael S. Parks, "Thomas Johnson Bryan (1831-1897) and Anis Brown", bauer.uh.edu/parks/genealogy/TJBryan.htm

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