From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: William R. Bryan

William Rufus Bryan
May 23, 1876 - August 10, 1960

William Rufus Bryan was the son of Tillman Capers Bryan and Mildred Manning Prothro Bryan of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. He married Mary Margeana "Margie" Pate sometime between 1900 and 1906. Margie died in 1906 and is buried in the Bryan Cemetery.  William and Margie are said to be the parents of Chester Bryan who died at the age of eight days and is also buried in the Bryan Cemetery in Bienville Parish. 

By 1908, William was in Haskell County, Texas as he married Eva Hicks on September 20, 1908. They were living in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1918 where he was working as a meat cutter in the 1920s.  

William cannot be positively located after 1927; however, his obituary indicates he might have lived in Ringgold before his death. 


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Sources

Brittain, Julia and McMichael Frances. "Descendants of Reddick Bryan." Houston, Texas.

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.

U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 for William R Bryan. Ancestry.com, 2011. Web. 21 Mar. 2018. <https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2469/4927482/394229511?indiv=try&h&db>.

U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 for William Rufus Bryan. Ancestry.com, 2005. Web. 21 Mar. 2018. <https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6482/005153658_04645?indiv=try&h&db>.

W R Bryan in the Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965. Ancestry.com, 2014. Web. 21 Mar. 2018. <https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=1001449&dbid=60183>

Friday's Photo: Ina and Bert Cook

Last Friday, I posted this photo from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. 

It must have been "picture day" as while looking through Cook scans, I found individual photos of the Cook sisters in the same clothes and hats. To learn more, click here to see last Friday's post. 

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Source

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.

Friday's Photo: A Bryan - Cook Gathering in Bienville Parish

 

Unknown to my father, four of the young people in this photo were his second cousins - grandchildren of Tilman Capers Bryan, brother to his grandfather, Terrell Bryan. 

This is another photo from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark and it is assumed to have been taken in or near Bienville Parish, Louisiana.  It was labeled by Marguerite's mother, Maggie Cook. It is thought to have been labeled long after the photo was taken. The maiden names of all of the young women were included, but it is not known if they were married when the photo was taken.  The clothing styles, especially the hats, lead me to believe the photo was taken around 1910. No later than 1915.

Marguerite Cook Clark called all of these young people family. The Bryans were cousins - all descendants of Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth S. Regan family. The Cook girls were sisters to her father, Edward Clifton Cook.

Della Bryan Pate and Lois Bryan Norman were daughters of Tilman C. Bryan II and 
Mary E. McDowell.

Willie Bryan Tomme and Robert Lee Bryan were the children of John W. Bryan and 

Lizzie Sheffield.

Ina Cook Bryan and Bert Cook were the daughters of N. B. and Pauline Porter Cook.  Ina married Albert Brown Bryan.





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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 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.

Taylor, M. A. (2011). Bonnets and hats, 1840-1900. Westwood, MA: Picture Perfect Press