I love this old photo of Albert Brown Bryan and his grand-aunt, Alice Mary Wimberly Bryan estimated to have been taken about 1890. Albert's grandmother was Alice's sister, Sarah Margaret Wimberly Bryan. Alice was married to James Bryan, and Sarah to his half-brother, Joseph Brown Bryan.
Albert was the son of James Anderson Bryan and Sarah Frances Nix. Both died of influenza when Albert was about two years old. Augustus Reddick Bryan and his wife, Erie Ontario Nix, raised Albert and their three daughters in a log home about four miles south of Ringgold in Bienville Parish.
I was uncertain whether to call Alice the grand-aunt or great-aunt of Albert. Most dictionaries consider them synonymous terms. However, at Ancestry.com, a grand-aunt is the name that should be given to the sister of a person’s grandparent. A great-aunt is used for those who are at least three generations older than the person. So, a great-grandparent's sister would be a great-aunt.
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Alice Mary Wimberly Bryan and Albert Bryan photograph, n.d.; digital image, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2022. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas, on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.
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