Friday's Photo: Joseph Brown Bryan of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

These photos of Joseph Brown Bryan were found in the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark, a descendant of Joseph and his wife, Sarah Margaret Wimberly. 

Born on September 19, 1824, in Georgia, likely in either Twiggs or Houston County, Joseph Brown Bryan was the son of Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Span Regan.

Joseph and Sarah, daughter of William Wimberly and Lucy Smith Lawson, married in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, and together, they had eight children: Laura Frances, William Walter, Augustus Reddick, Lucy Elizabeth, Joseph Sarah Catherine "Josie," James Anderson, John Terrell, and Alice Martha. Josie and John were adopted by their aunt and uncle, Alice Mary Wimberly Bryan, and James Bryan, a childless couple. 

Joseph, Sarah, and their children are buried in the Wimberly Cemetery in Bienville Parish. 

Joseph Bryan was identified on the back of this photo, but 
the tall man beside him was not. I suspect it might be one of 
his sons.

 

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Unidentified photographs, n.d.; digital images, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas, on 28 April 2014, 14 September 2014, and 9-11 November 2016.