Friday's Photo: A trip to George Washington's Mount Vernon in 1939

This photo of Lillie Mae Trott Scott Murphey and her daughter, Mary Beth Scott, came from the Frye family collection. [1]

George Washington's Mount Vernon is the historic home of George and Martha Washington, located on the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia about 13 miles south of Washington, DC. [2]

“Murphy-Scott,” The Bienville

Democrat,  27 Feb. 1936, p.6, col. 5;

database and images, The Digital 

Archives of The Bienville Parish 

Library (http://bienville.advantage-

preservation.com : accessed 

27 August 2021).

Lillie Mae Trott was the daughter of William Jackson Trott and Lula Laura Cook of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. 

Lillie Mae first married Herbert B. Scott father of Mary Beth and in 1936 married William Wayne Murphey. [3]

This photo was developed in September 1939 and it is suspected that it was taken just prior to the family leaving for the Philippine Islands where Lt. Colonel Murphey was stationed just before the war. [4]

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Diana

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    1. Lillie Mae Trott Murphy and Mary Beth Scott at Mount Vernon, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

    2. "Meet the Fairfaxes, George Washington's Neighbors," George Washington's Mount Vernon (https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/george-washingtons-neighbors : accessed 30 November 2021).

    3. Vera Meeks Wimberly, Wimberly Family History, Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana 1837 (Houston Texas: D. Anderson, 1979), 350-351.

    4. “Army Life of Pre-War Philippines Was Familiar to Mrs. William B. Allen,” Corpus Christi Times (Corpus Christi, Texas), 27 April 1946, p.4-C; database and images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=90277215&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjc1NzcwNzg5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjM5MTY4NjQ0LCJleHAiOjE2MzkyNTUwNDR9.jLhw5UncfmAXKVhxSpAzCzZ-koqgF0RUkx6sUD2QpF8 : accessed 8 Dec. 2021).

Friday's Photo: The Family of Thomas Lawson Bryant and Alitha McCrary

Anne Taylor Bryant  - mother of Thomas Lawson Bryant, Thomas Lawson Bryant, Alitha McCrary Bryant
Back - Darrell J. Bryant, Kyle Bryant, and Foy Bryant
Mount Vernon, Franklin County, Texas

Click to enlarge this photo. You will see the names of some of the family members written in pencil. 

On the back - Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Bryant and family
Granny Frye's own aunt Litha McCrary - Litha Bryan
Ann Fuquay another sister

Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Bryant is written on the back of this photo found in the Frye Family Collection. I wasn't quite sure how this family was related to my Bryans so scanned it as it isn't unusual to see Bryan written as Bryant and Lawson is a frequent name seen when researching Bryans in Bienville Parish.  

The Frye family, who graciously opened their home to allow me to scan these photos, are descendants of my great-great-grandfather, Reddick Bryan. After looking at the Frye family tree, I found the Lawson Bryant family is not my family. However, a marriage does link the Lawson Bryant family to my Reddick Bryan family. 

Allie Belle Trott

Allie Belle Trott, great-great-granddaughter of Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Regan, married Charles Jefferson Frye. Her parents were William Jackson Trott and  Laura Lula Cook. Her grandparents were Joseph W. Cook and Josie Bryan. Josie Bryan Cook was the biological daughter of Joseph B. Bryan and Sarah Margaret Wimberly and the adopted daughter of James Bryan and Alice Mary Wimberly (siblings of Joseph and Sarah).  Joseph B. and James were sons of Reddick Bryan. 

Alitha McCrary (Mrs. Lawson Bryant)

Charles Jefferson Frye's mother, Sarah Ann McKinney was the daughter of Alexander Fulton McKinney and Sarah Ann McCrary. Sarah Ann McCrary and Alitha McCrary (Mrs. Lawson Bryant) were sisters. 

To learn more about the family of Thomas Lawson Bryant and Alitha McCrary read pages 1268 to 1270 in A History of Texas and Texans, Volume 3 by Frank White Johnson. You can read it below or click on Google Books to read and download a larger version. 

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Diana

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Sources

Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006. Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.

Family photographs from the Frye Family collection. Accessed June 6, 2016. Used with permission.

Johnson, F. W., Barker, E. C., & Winkler, E. W. (1914). A history of Texas and Texans. Chicago: American Historical Society.