Friday's Photo: Tillman C. Bryan and his Pension Record

This is the third photo of Tillman posted in the last two weeks. This tintype shows a much older Tillman. I love that I was able to easily see the same facial features in all three photos. Look at his nose and the shape of his mouth and mustache. 

This photo of the older Tillman came from Marguerite Cook Clark's collection. It's actually clipped from this photo of two brothers - Joseph B. Bryan and Tillman C. Bryan. 

This photo is labeled J. B. Bryan (Grandpap) and Uncle Tillman Bryan.
Marguerite's mother, Mary Marguerite "Maggie" Martin Cook (1887-1970)
labeled the photo in an album. 

This photo of Tillman was taken about 
the time of the Civil War. 

Tillman's pension record for service in the Confederate Army is a good record of his birth and other facts not easily found for those born in 1830.   I am certain that Tillman completed the application himself. He gives his birth date and place of birth - September 13, 1830, in Houston County, Georgia. 

At the time, Tillman suffered from facial paralysis and probably skin cancer as he wrote that he had "cancer on the face." 

Tillman enlisted in the Confederate Army in the spring of 1862 and served in the calvary until the end of the war. He listed three "comrades" living nearby; V. M. Davis and Fred Davis of Ringgold, and Howell Albritton of Campti. V. M. Davis and Jacob Cook witnessed the pension record. 

Tillman wrote that he had seven living children. Two sons and three daughters were married, while one daughter, age 15, and one son, age 23, lived in the home. 

The children at home would have been Jewell Antonette Bryan, age 15, and William Rufus Bryan, age 23. 

His married children were Tillman C. Bryan, John Wesley Bryan, Sally Manning Bryan Hammett, Ida Amelia Bryan Sheffield, and Tommie Eta Lissinie Bryan Nix.

This application was filed on February 1, 1899. There were a total of 27 questions. 

It appears that Tillman was approved to receive $8.00 a quarter; however, he probably did not receive any of the pension funds as he died on June 16 of the same year. 

Tillman's five-page pension record can be found at FamilySearch.org. Sign-up for a free account and click here to view the record. 

In April 1912, Tillman's wife, Mildred, filed for a widow's pension. Mildred reported they were married on March 15, 1854. This doesn't match the dates reported previously. She actually married her first husband, Hartwell M. Prothro, on March 23, 1854. He died in a steamboat explosion in March 1856.  

It was written that Tillman died of natural circumstances and is buried in the Liberty Chapel Cemetery. Tillman and Mildred are buried in the Bryan Cemetery. Is that formerly the Liberty Chapel Cemetery? 

Mildred died on December 8, 1912.* It is not known if she collected pension funds. With your free account at FamilySearch.org, you can view or download Mildred Bryan's pension application.  

To learn more about Tillman, visit the posts below. 

T. C. Bryan of Bienville Parish, Louisiana - Was he Tillman or Tilman?

Friday's Photo: Tillman C. Bryan 

*To learn more about Mildred and see an alternative death date read Mildred Rebecca Manning Prothro Bryan AND a Question About My Last Post.

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Diana

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Sources 

Bryan, Joseph B., and Bryan, Tillman C. Photograph. No date. Photograph in album held by M. Harrison, NC.*

Bryan, Tillman C. Photograph. No date. Photograph held by H. Forstmann, CT.

Bryan, Tillman C. Photograph. No date. Photograph in album held by M. Harrison, NC.*

"Louisiana Confederate Pensions, 1898-1950", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CSL8-FKMM : 27 November 2020), T C Bryan in entry for MM9.1.1/CSLF-6SMM:, 1899.

"Louisiana Confederate Pensions, 1898-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-VZSD-5S?cc=1838535&wc=M61M-PNB%3A164934001 : 20 May 2014), Brown, John B - Evans, C H > image 991 of 1406; Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge.

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*Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.