1. Richard J BRYAN 1789-1871
   married 10 Feb 1814, Colleton Dist, SC to
   Lucy Ann (Nancy) ULMER 1793-1872
   both buried Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church Cem
   Dallas-Lowndes Co, AL
   dau of Henry ULMER & Margaret LANGLEY
   Richard J received Land in Lowndes Co, AL 21 Mar 1831
   Township 13 North - Range 12 East - Section ?
2. Edward Harper BRYAN 1787-1856 SC
   probably buried Colleton Dist, SC
   1st married 1808 SC Levicy PADGETT abt 1787
   2nd married 1821 SC Easter LEIGH 1795
3. Mehetable BRYAN 1796-1839 MS
   married 1818 SC Benjamin HARRISON 1795 SC
   Mehetable died in Copiah Co, MS
   Benjamin 2nd married Esther Unknown 1803-1879
4. Matilda Smith Bryan 1789-1855
   married 23 Dec 1819 Colleton Dist, SC
   to Dr. Henry Tally CRUMPTON 1790
   moved to Dallas Co, AL 1832
   son of Alexander CRUMPTON & Mary GRIGGS of
   Walterboro, Colleton Dist., SC

1. Richard Ulmer BRYAN aft 1814 SC
   married MILLS moved to Brazil - ca. 1886
2. Matilda "Isabella" Harriet Eleanor BRYAN 1823
   married 1841 Dallas Co, AL
   Nathanial S ARANT 1814 SC-1886 LA
   son of Phillip ARANT & Margaret R HARTSOOK
   NOTE: Nathaniel purchased land 1871, Morehouse Parish, LA
3. Valeria Elizabeth BRYAN 1814
   married Hugh T. McDONALD died bef Jun 1860
4. Margaret Mehetabel BRYAN abt 1817 SC
   married 09 Nov 1841 Dallas Co, AL
   John M. GRAMBLING 1810 SC-1841
   (GRAMBLING/GRAMLING)

1. Edward H BRYAN 1815
   married Holland J UNKNOWN 1815
   on 1850 Colletcon, SC census

1. John "Mack" McPhail BRYAN 1823-1886
   probably buried Bells, Colleton Co, SC
   married Frances Elizabeth BRELAND
2. Richard George Washington BRYAN 1835
   on 1850 census w/parents
3. Paul Walter BRYAN 1838
   on 1850 census w/parents
4. Easter Elizabeth BRYAN 1840
   on 1850 census w/parents

1. Mary CRUMPTON aft 1816 SC-bef 1912-bef 1912
   no further info
2. Richard "Dick" Alexander CRUMPTON aft 1816 SC-bef 1912
   fought in Mexican War - moved to California
   died with cholera at Camargo when about to start
   with Major Graham's party for the Coast.
3. Maranda Ann CRUMPTON aft 1816 SC-bef 1912
   no further info
4. Henry Thomas CRUMPTON aft 1816 SC-aft 1832
   died from injuries from bale of cotton rolling over him
5. Hezekiah John CRUMPTON 1828 SC
   moved to California - traveled across the West & Mexico
   an "old forty-niner"
6. Wm Zachariah CRUMPTON aft 1828 SC-bef 1912
   fought in Mexican War
   later found in Mobile, AL - then back to Lowndes Co, AL
   died of pneumonia
7. James Henderson CRUMPTON 1833-bef 1912
   living w/grandparents 1860 census
8. Martha Matilda CRUMPTON aft 1832 AL-bef 1912
   no further info
9. Jane Eliza CRUMPTON aft 1832 AL-bef 1912
   no further info
10. Rev. Washington Bryan CRUMPTON 1842-1926 AL
    Traveled extensively - wrote of his travels
    Joined Co. H, 37th MS Infantry May 1862

1. Johannah Melissa ARANT 1842 AL
   married 1859 Lowndes Co, AL
   Allen David TILL 1835 AL
   2nd married 1865 Lowndes Co, AL
   Felix D DANTZLER 1840 SC
   family later moved to Morehouse Parish, LA
2. Margaret Ann Valeria (Neliva) ARANT 1844
   married 1865 Lowndes Co, AL
   Albert "Monre" YELLDELL 1843
   family moved to Morehouse Parish, LA
3. Phillip Ulmer Arant ARANT 1856
   no further info
4. F.E. ARANT 1859
   no further info
5. L. Vandelia ARANT 1860
   no further info
6. Richard Bryan ARANT 1868
   no further info

1. Thomas H McDONALD 1838
   1850 census w/grparents
   1860 census w/mother
2. H.E. (Harriet?) McDONALD 1840
   1860 census w/mother
3. A.A. (Ann?) McDONALD 1847
   1860 census w/mother
4. B.V. (Benj?) McDONALD 1849
   1860 census w/mother
5. M.M. (Mary?) McDONALD 1850
   1860 census w/mother

1. James Ira GRAMBLING 1853-1926
   buried Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church Cem
   Dallas-Lowndes Co, AL
   

Elizabeth HARPER BRYAN - Dallas Co, AL
(widow of Rev. Richard Bryan)

• 21 Aug 1827 - Elizabeth Bryan entered claim for 82.75 acres of Dallas County, AL
  E ½ NE ¼, Sec. 1, T13N, R11E

• 02 Apr 1828 - Elizabeth Bryan received patent for 82.75 acres of Dallas County, AL
  E ½ NE ¼, Sec. 1, T13N, R11E

• 08 Aug 1835 - Dallas Co - July Term - ... will be sold to highest bidder, all the real estate of Elizabeth BRYANT, deceased

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Richard J Bryan - Lowndes Co, AL
(son of Rev. Richard Bryan & Elizabeth Harper)
Moved from Colleton Co, SC to Dallas Co, AL in 1832, later moved to Lowndes Co, AL

• 21 Mar 1835 - Richard J Bryan - Township 13 North, Range 12 East, Sec. ?
  same tract with Edward Bryan 1834 & Redding Bryan 1832 & 1835
  These were the only 3 Bryan's I have found so far that purchased land in Township 13 North, Range 12 East. It is reported that Edward Harper Bryan, brother of Richard J, stayed in Colleton Co, SC, therefore the Edward acquiring land in 1834 & appearing on the Lowndes Co, AL 1850 census (born 1800 NC) would not be the same Edward. I do not know who Edward (1800 NC) & Redding's fathers are.

See other Bryan Land Deeds in Lowndes Co, AL

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Edward Bryan - Lowndes Co, AL
(son of Unknown Bryan)

• 23 Sep 1834 - Edward Bryan - Township 13 North, Range 12 East, Sec. ?
  same tract with Redding Bryan 1832 & 1835 & Richard J Bryan 1835 (son of Rev. Richard Bryan)
  NOTE: It is reported that Edward Harper Bryan, brother of Richard J, stayed in Colleton Co, SC, therefore the Edward acquiring land in 1834 & appearing on the Lowndes Co, AL 1850 census (born 1800 NC) would not be the same Edward. I do not know who Edward (1800 NC) & Redding's fathers are. Rev. Richard's widow & some of their children moved from Colleton Co, SC to Dallas Co, AL before 1832. They had 1 son named Edward & 1 son named Richard J and possibly more.

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*Thomas was on 1850 living w/Richard Bryan
Richard $2,400 & $500

- W.H. Crumpton, enumerator -

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Lowndes Co, AL Census
the only Bryan found

Part One
The Adventures of Dr. H. J. Crumpton, of
Piedmont, California, in his efforts to reach
the Gold Fields in 1849

Part Two
The Adventures of Rev. W. B. Crumpton, going
to and returning from California, including his
Lecture, "The Original Tramp, or How a Boy
Got through the Lines to the Confederacy"

Part Three
To California and Back after a Lapse

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Part One

        MY DEAR Brother Wash: You asked me to prepare some notes on the wanderings of an Alabama Boy. To do this from memory after such a lapse of time will be somewhat inaccurate and prosy, I fear.

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FAMILY LIFE.

        Our parents were married about 1816. Mother was Miss Matilda Smith Bryan and father Henry T. Crumpton. Both sprang from honorable, well-to-do people from revolutionary sires, who were soldiers of distinction under General Francis Marion. Our maternal grandfather was Rev. Richard Bryan, a Methodist preacher. Our parents started married life in Walterboro, Colleton District, S.C., where were born to them Mary, Richard Alexander, Maranda Ann, Henry Thomas, Hezekiah John, (myself, born Sept. 18, 1828), and William Zachariah; the balance of the ten children, afterwards born in Alabama were James Henderson, Martha Matilda, Jane Eliza, and Washington Bryan, yourself, the baby. All have now passed into the life beyond except you and me.

        In Walterboro our father developed into something of a plunger in the financial world; made several successful deals, later formed a partnership - the other fellow furnishing experience, our progenitor the "dough." They invested in the purchase and driving of cattle to supply the Charleston beef market. They succeeded well, always re-investing original capital and profit in another and bigger lot, finally meeting a calamity by the drowning of the whole herd in attempting to cross a swollen stream, Broad River, perhaps at its mouth and perhaps from not knowing of the ebb and flow of the tide, though living within forty miles of the coast. With a feeling of disgust, following this financial collapse, our father sought new environment, and by the aid of kins folk loaded up family and household belongings in 1832 and struck out through the wilderness for Alabama, across Georgia through the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, before the removal of those and other friendly tribes was completed to the territory now forming part of the State of Oklahoma.

IN ALABAMA.

        After a dreary trip, we safely landed at the delightful home of grandmother Bryan near "Fort Rascal," now Pleasant Hill, Dallas Co. We afterwards moved to old Cahaba, where our father succeeded well in business. The arrival of a steamboat was quite an event, occurring maybe once a month; everybody turned out. They had a crude way of loading cotton. A bale was carelessly turned loose and rolled over our brother Henry, who sustained injuries from which he died. This was such a shock for poor mother, it was determined best to have a change of scenes. Our family removed from old Cahaba to Farmersville, a little hamlet in Lowndes county. One thing about our stay there is vividly remembered. A dear, good old soul, named Ingram, was my school teacher in the log-cabin school house. He didn't know much and didn't try to fool anybody; but he was a great stickler for what he called "etiket" - was bent on teaching his children good manners. Just about all of Friday was devoted to this stunt. It was quite a relief, after we got rid of our bashfulness. The previous four days, twelve hours each, with our prosy studies, put us in good shape for a change on Friday. The dear old fellow managed to work in more or less change of program from time to time; but one inflexible feature was to send one of the girls out of one of the side doors, then derail some boy to go out the other, to escort her back and introduce her to each one of the whole school, an ordeal to which every boy and girl had to be subjected. Some regarded this as a hardship, but to this degenerate son of Adam 'twas always a roaring farce and as good as a circu