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My grandparents, Myrtie Hairston and Redic Eli Bryan, had two baby
boys who died in infancy.
Redic Eli Bryan Jr. was born on April 8,
1913 and died on April 30. He was 22 days old.
In 1913, the Bryan family was living in
Seymour, Baylor County, Texas. This birth announcement was found in the Baylor County Banner.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Bryan are the happy
parents of a new big bouncing boy since Tuesday. The youngster is a
lively fellow and lets his wants be known.
Baylor County Banner - April 11, 1913
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| Myrtie Hairston Bryan belonged to a Woodmen of the World women's auxiliary group - a Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle. Her circle was the Daphne Grove No. 323. |
Redic E., Jr. died of whooping cough. Other Bryan children, Marie,
DeRay, Buster, and Willia Mae, some of who also had whooping cough, were
staying with grandparents, Phillip and Lodema Hairston, in Levelview while the
baby was ill. The following two mentions were found in the Baylor County Banner
under Levelview community news.
Dr. Bunkley was called out Sunday to see
little Willie Mae Bryan who had gotten hold of some medicine and ate it, but
she failed to swallow it and never hurt her so very much. April 18, 1913
R. E. Bryan came out last
week to see about his children who are staying with their grandparents Mr. and
Mrs. Hairston while they have the whooping cough. May 2, 1913
Redic Bryan was the tax assessor in Baylor County during this time and this was written in the Baylor County Banner on April 25, Assessor R. E. Bryan requests everybody to render their taxes by May 1. He has been unable to get out much lately on account of a sick baby.
Redic Eli Bryan, Jr. died on April 30, 1913. He had been sick for
14 days. His obituary was found in the Bryan family bible. A Card of
Thanks was published in the May 2, 1913 issue of the Baylor County Banner and
is transcribed below.
Card of Thanks
We want to express in the strongest
possible terms our heartfelt appreciation of the very great kindness of our
friends and neighbors who were so helpful, solicitous and sympathizing upon the
occasion of the death of our little boy. We thank Dr. Bunkley, also, for
his faithful service. May the God of all good reward you in ways that we
cannot Sincerely, R. E. Bryan, wife and children.
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| A Postmortem Photograph Myrtie Hairston Bryan Redic E. Bryan, age 3 months December 1916 |
Redic E. Bryan, also seen as R. E. Bryan, was born at the end of end of September in 1916. This announcement of his birth was found in the Baylor County Banner on September 28, 1916.
Visits of the stork have become almost an epidemic in this part of the country. On one of them last week, a big boy was left at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Bryan. He is strictly one of the family by this time.
No mention of the baby is seen again in the 1916 issues of the
Banner.
Redic E. Bryan died on December 31, 1916
at age three months. According to funeral home records, he is buried in the
Woodman of the World Cemetery in Seymour.
Diana
© 2014
Sources
Ancestry.com. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013
Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn.
Postmortem photograph from the collection of Carla Noah Stutsman. Used with permission.
Quinn, Diana. "Baylor County Banner1913." Baylor County Banner1913. 22 Jan. 2007. Web. 24 Dec. 2014. <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bryanquinn/BaylorCountyBanner1913.htm>.
Quinn, Diana. "Baylor County Banner1916." Baylor County Banner1916. 15 July 2009. Web. 20 Dec. 2014. <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bryanquinn/BaylorCountyBanner1916.htm>.
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