When I first became interested in the Bryan family history, I was lucky to have help from Georgia researcher, Dennis Bryant. Dennis located Reddick in a small number of deed records in Martin County, North Carolina a few years prior to my interest. If I had not found Dennis, I wonder if I would still be looking for Reddick in North Carolina.
In 1999, using many North Carolina and Georgia documents from Dennis and Louisiana documents from Bryan family members, I started a written timeline. In 2012, the timeline became the blog The Reddick Bryan Family - Bienville and Beyond, A Timeline to share information about the Bryan family in chronological order. This was difficult to maintain due to time constraints and new finds resulted in continual revisions. I have eliminated that blog and am recreating it on this page.
This timeline begins the year of Reddick Bryan's birth in 1793 and will contain information about the family in North Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana. Other posts will be added as new documentation is found.
The Reddick Bryan Family - A Timeline
1793
Reddick Bryan was born in 1793 in North Carolina. The exact county
is not known but thought to be in or near Martin County. What is known about
possible parents of Reddick Bryan can be found in the link below.
1797
Needham Bryan of Martin County, NC died in March 1797. Could he be the grandfather of Reddick Bryan?
1798
Elizabeth Span Regan was born on October 20, 1798. See the link below to find out more.
1813
On September 10, l8l3, James Bryan of Martin County, North Carolina transferred 5O acres of land inherited from his father Needham to Reddick Bryan.
1815
James Bryan was born on February 9, 1815. Note that his headstone gives his year of birth as 1816. Two family Bible records state that he was born in 1815 and one in 1816.
1816
John Regan, first son of Joseph and Elizabeth Span Regan was born on September 12, 1816.
1817
Simeon Baker Bryan, son of Reddick and his first wife, was born on January 19, 1817 in North Carolina. See more about him at this link.
In Twiggs County, Georgia, Reddick Bryan applied for letters of administration on the estate of a James Bryan, late of Twiggs County, on December 24, 1817.
1818
Span Regan, the son of Elizabeth Span Regan and Joseph Regan, was born on April 1, 1818.
1820
Joseph and Elizabeth Regan's son, Rufus Wiley Regan, was born on February 16, 1820 and he died when he was almost ten months old on December 13, 1820. His father, Joseph Regan passed away six days later on December 19, 1820.
1821
Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Span Regan were married on September 13, 1821 in Pulaski County, Georgia.
While Reddick Bryan lived in Twiggs County, he drew lot number 82 (202 and 1/2 acres) in District 14 of Houston County during the 1821 Georgia Land Lottery. It does not appear that Reddick settled on this particular property as it was transferred to Perry Wimberly who transferred it to Peter V. Guerry and who sold it for $800 to Nehemiah Guerry in 1827.
1822
On January 14,1822, Reddick Bryan, of Twiggs County, applied by letter to be administrator, in right of his wife, of the estate of Joseph Regan, her first husband. Reddick Bryan, Turner Coley and Jesse Bryant provided a surety bond of $4,000.
William R. Bryan, first child of Reddick and Elizabeth Bryan was born August 1, 1822.
1824
Joseph B. Bryan, son of Reddick and Elizabeth was born on September 19, 1824, in Georgia.
1828
Dorothea Elizabeth Bryan, daughter of Reddick and Elizabeth Bryan was born on March 14, 1828. It is unknown as to whether she was born in Twiggs County or in Houston County. Dorothea is said to be the name of Elizabeth's mother.
Later that year on , November 8, 1828, I presume that Reddick was living in Houston as he and his wife, Elizabeth, were witnesses to the will of John Barr in Houston County. According to an article found in the October 20, 1828 issue of the Macon Weekly Telegraph, John Barr, in a state of intoxication, fell from a window of the second story of the Houston County, court house and was badly hurt.
1830
Reddick and Elizabeth were enumerated in the 1830 census of Houston County, Georgia. At that time the family would have consisted of Reddick and Elizabeth, John Regan, Span Regan, James Bryan, Baker Bryan, Joseph Brown Bryan, and Dorothy Elizabeth Bryan. The census also indicated that 12 enslaved persons lived with the family.
According to Dennis Bryant, In Houston County, Reddick and his family lived on the outskirts of Wilna, a town that eventually disappeared. Miles and Needham Bryan, possible family members, lived adjacent to Reddick and Elizabeth.
Tillman Capers Bryan was born to Reddick and Elizabeth Bryan on September 15, 1830 in Houston County, Georgia.
1832
Abner Wimberly, Reddick Bryan, Thomas Gilbert, Henry Conyers, and James O'Bryan were appointed trustees for the Houston county Ocmulgee academy.
1834
Catharine Amanda Bryan, daughter of Reddick and Elizabeth was born in 1834.
1836
Terrel1 Bryan was born on November 13, 1836.
1838
Houston County, Georgia
Louisa Smith Bryan - Obituary
This obituary appeared in the Southern Christian Advocate dated February 1, 1839.
Departed this life in Houston county, Ga., on the 1st inst. mth. LOUISA, wife of Simeon B. Bryan, and daughter of Needham and Ardelia Smith. She was a lady of eminent modesty and virtue, and embraced the religion of the Redeemer, experimentally, at a young protracted meeting at Emory chapel, in 1837, and joined the M. E. Church. Her marriage took place in May last and in the fall afterwards her husband's father and brothers emigrated to the far west, in the State of Louisiana, he alone remaining with his young wife in the land of their nativity. But what is our hold on the interests of time. The had scarcely touched their distant destination before she for whom he had parted with father and brothers, was taken from him. Her death was sudden, but found her well prepared; and to her mother and friends, who in the short interval of danger barely had time to make a mournful leave of her, she professed that she was happy in the triumph of Jesus. With this profession, she fell into a comotose state, in which on the same evening she expired. THOMAS SPEIGHT
1839
Georgia Ann Frances Bryan, the youngest child of Reddick and Elizabeth was born on June 15, 1839.
1855
Terrell Bryan and Harriet Louisa Albritton were married on February 20, 1855.
See Terrell, Harriet, and genealogical information about their children at the following links.
1862
Georgia Ann Frances Bryan Pittman of Bienville Parish, Louisiana sent this letter to her half-brother and his wife, Span and Lou Ragan of Lee County, Georgia.
1864
Reddick Bryan died on July 12, 1864. See his obituary and the Bryan Cemetery at the links below.
1870
See the Bryan family in the 1870 United States Census.
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For those searching for North Carolina Bryans, check out Dr. Howard Jones' research and notes at The Bryan Puzzle, a study of the Bryan families living in Martin County, North Carolina during the 18th and early 19th centuries - compiled by Dr. Howard V. Jones
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Sources
1830 Census, Houston County, Georgia
Bryan, Louisa Smith. Obituary. Southern Christian Advocate. February 1, 1839.
Bryant, John Dennis. Letter to Larry Martin. August 15, 1997. Used with permission.
Bryan, Louisa Smith. Obituary. Southern Christian Advocate. February 1, 1839.
Bryant, John Dennis. Letter to Larry Martin. August 15, 1997. Used with permission.
"LEGISLATION CONCERNING JACKSON ACADEMY." http://sites.rootsweb.com/~gahenry/Schools/jacksonaca.htm. Accessed 3 Jul. 2020.
Marriages, 1800-1956. Georgia, Court of Ordinary (Pulaski County)
Marriages, 1800-1956. Georgia, Court of Ordinary (Pulaski County)
Wills and Inferior Court Minutes of Houston County, Georgia, Will Book A 1827-1836 Inferior Court Minutes 1821-1852 Volume 1, Central Georgia Genealogical Society, Inc.
