Family notes from the Baylor County Banner, Baylor County, Texas - 1912

I found this article about my grandfather, Redic E. Bryan when beginning this post yesterday. A nice surprise! Redic E. Bryan had just announced he was seeking a second term as tax assessor in Baylor County, Texas, and received the support of the local newspaper editor, O. C. Harrison. I added the photo above as they wrote about Redic (on the right) purchasing the long carriage typewriter. Did he use his own funds for this? You can see the entire photo of the office inside the courthouse at this post - My Grandfather Worked at this Courthouse in Baylor County, Texas.  

In addition to using a typewriter to record his tax rolls, my grandfather created a guidebook that listed every piece of property in Baylor County, with its full description and the assessed value for school, county, and state taxes. For those of you in Baylor County, is there any chance this guide survived the last 100+ years? 

Redic E. Bryan's parents, my great-grandparents, were 
Terrell Bryan and Harriet Albritton. I would love to know
what happened to these items!

The following 1912 excerpts were found in Baylor County Banner issues on a microfilm reel labeled "Baylor County Banner Oct 04, 1912 thru Dec 31, 1914." These excerpts were recorded on my web pages almost twenty years ago. Those web pages have not been updated since about 2012 but can still be found at my Rootsweb Freepages site. However, Ancestry, who now owns Rootsweb, is retiring the pages in 2024, and when returned, they will be static (I will not be able to make changes). In case the pages get lost, I am adding the content to this blog.

If you would like to see the actual article, the full October, November, and December issues can be viewed if you have a subscription to NewspaperArchive. 

Note that 1912 issues from January 5, 2012, and May 31, 1912, can be viewed at the free The Portal to Texas History. 

An asterisk * indicates that all of the information from the article is included in the notes below. To search for your family name, use your browser's "Find" function. 

October 4, 1912

R. E. Bryan returned today from a trip to Fort Worth.*

Mrs. Annie Parker of Missouri visited her brother Thomas Wharton.*

Reynolds - Goostree wedding

Redic Bryan was listed as running for Tax Assessor (This will be his second term.).

Baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs. John Olsen.*

Card of thanks for kindness shown to Mrs. John F. Little in her last illness. John F. Little, Mrs. E. M. Mayo, Mrs.Lige Adkins

Obituary for Mrs. John F. Little, daughter of Mrs. E. M. Mayo

Our Birthday - The Banner is 17 years old . . . .

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - November 29, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparents, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family, who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  

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These are the last of the 1923 articles. I made some copies of 1926 issues on that same trip and will begin posting those in March. 

R. E. Bryan was my grandfather. He was Redic Eli Bryan and lived in Baylor County from 1905 until his death in 1929. He never really settled on an occupation. He was a teacher, a farmer, a merchant, a bartender, and a restaurant owner. I know that he did business in the oil fields and my father said he was a truck farmer.  He also served as the Tax Assessor for two terms in Baylor County. However, I never knew he worked for a newspaper until I found the following article. 

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Diana

© 2023

Sources 

Redic E. Bryan, photograph, ca. 1910; scanned image, original photograph from the privately-held collection of Diana Bryan Quinn, Virginia Beach, VA, 2023. 

O. C. Harrison, The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Texas), 29 November 1926, Vol. 8, print; Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas, 2019. 

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - October 18 and October 25, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparents, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  If you want to know more about the families I research, click here to like my Facebook page, where you will see each post and other genealogical finds. 

18 October 1923

25 October 1923

25 October 1923

25 October 1923

Diana

© 2022 

O. C. Harrison, The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Texas), 18 October 1923, Vol. 29, No. 4, print; Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas, 2019. 

O. C. Harrison, The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Texas), 25 October 1923, Vol. 29, No. 5, print; Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas, 2019. 

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - October 11, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparents, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  If you want to know more about the families I research, click here to like my Facebook page, where you will see each post and other genealogical finds. 

Diana

© 2022 

O. C. Harrison, The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Texas), 11 October 1923, Vol. 28, No. 3, print; Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas, 2019. 

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - October 4, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparents, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  If you want to know more about the families I research, click here to like my Facebook page, where you will see each post and other genealogical finds. 

Diana

© 2022 

O. C. Harrison, The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Texas), 4 October 1923, Vol. 28, No.2, print; Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas, 2019. 

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - September 20, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparents, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  

If you want to know more about the families I research, click here to like my Facebook page where you will see each post and other genealogical finds. 

Diana

© 2022

O. C. Harrison, The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Texas), 20 September 1923, Vol. 28, No. 52, print; Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas, 2019. 

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - September 13, 1923 (Part 1)

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparents, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  

There was much happening in Baylor County in the news on September 13, 1923. The Cowboy Reunion and Baylor County Fair took up much of the news and school starting resulted in several articles. Photos of buildings in Seymour were also found in this issue. I will post half of the articles and photos found today and more next week. 

Only a portion of this article was copied, but it does give
a nice glimpse of the rodeo. 

If you want to know more about the families I research, click here to like my Facebook page, where you will see each post and other genealogical finds. 

.

Diana

© 2022 

O. C. Harrison, The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Texas), 13 September 1923, Vol. 28, No. 51, print; Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas, 2019. 

Clippings from The Baylor County Banner - Seymour, Texas - July 19, 1923

My grandparents, Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston, and my great-grandparents, Phillip A. Hairston and Lodema Criswell, moved to Baylor County in 1905. My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was born in Seymour in 1920. He was the youngest of seven children born to Redic and Myrtie. 

In April 2019, I visited the Texas State Library and Archives to read Baylor County Banner issues that could not be found online or on microfilm. I photographed articles with information about my father's family who lived in Seymour. While sorting through my family finds, I realized I had photos of articles that might interest others looking for family. I have pictures of numerous articles from 1923 and a few from other years. I will post as time allows. 

Thank you to Matt Gwinn at the Baylor County Banner for giving me permission to post these clippings.  

If you want to know more about the families I research, click here to like my Facebook page, where you will see each post and other genealogical finds. 

.

Diana

© 2022 

Sources 

Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner. (Seymour, TX.), Vol. 28*, No. 43, 19 July  1923. Print. Accessed 15 April 2019.

Friday's Photo: DeRay Bryan, a Seymour High School Graduate

This may be a photo of a music group. Two of Dad's sisters,
DeRay and Willie Mae, can be seen in this photo.

My father's sister, Monte DeRay Bryan was born 118 years ago today in Erath County, Texas but spent most of her childhood in Baylor County. I first saw this photo in September 2001 on a research trip to Texas. There were several old yearbooks in the library in Seymour where I copied photos and learned much about Dad's siblings. Many of the old Seymour High School yearbooks can now be found on Ancestry.com. 

This photo was found in the 1920 Jackrabbit. DeRay was a senior that year. To see more about DeRay, her first teaching contract in Seymour, and additional photos read 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #3 Monte DeRay Bryan. Her senior photo and more can be found at #52ancestors Post Fourteen: Monte DeRay Bryan. 

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.

Diana

© 2022 

Seymour High School, The Jackrabbit 1920 (Seymour, Texas), no page number, The Baylor County Free Library, September 2001; digital copies held by D.B.Quinn, 2022.