James Bryan's Bible - Recorded Births, Deaths, and Marriages of Bryan and Wimberly Family Members in Northwest Louisiana.

This Bible is identified as James Bryan's Book. It is part of the Frye family's collection of family documents and photos. James and Alice Mary Wimberly did not have children but did adopt Joseph "Josie" Sarah Catherine Bryan and John Terrel (also seen as Terrell) Bryan, siblings and children of Sarah Margaret Wimberly (Alice's sister) and Joseph B. Bryan (James's half-brother). It appears that this Bible was passed down from James and Alice to Josie Bryan Cook then on to her grandson, William Trott and finally to the Frye family. In this post, I have included the scanned images of the pages in the Bible containing family information. 

On this page in the first column, marriages were recorded for James and Alice, for Josie and Joseph W. Cook, for Thomas H. Wimberly (Alice's brother) and Josephine A. Davis, and for Josie's brother, John T. Bryan and Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" McElroy. 

In the second column, the marriages of the children of Josie Bryan and Joe Cook are recorded; Lula L. Cook to William J. Trott, Alice Belle Cook to Thomas W. Neal, Mary Elizabeth Cook to Thomas Corley, and James Bryan Cook to Ollye Mae Reed. The death of S. E. McElroy, wife of John T. Bryan is found at the bottom of the column. 

On this second page are the births and deaths of James, Alice, Josie, and John. On the bottom of the page are the birth and death dates of the biological parents of Josie and John, Joseph B. Bryan and Sarah M. Wimberly. 

The second column also shows the deaths of James Anderson Bryan and Fannie Nix Bryan. James A. was Josie and John's brother (another son of Joseph and Sarah). James A. and Fannie died of influenza within only a few days of each other. 

This third page tells of births and deaths of several family members. 

Thomas Henry Wimberly, Alice's brother, died in 1871, just a few years after his wife, Josephine, and young daughter, Lula. 

Under Thomas Henry Wimberly's birth, John Lawson Senior's death on April 6th, 1888 can be seen in very faded handwriting. This may be Alice's uncle as her mother, Lucy Lawson Wimberly did have a brother, John, who lived in Louisiana. 

Sophanny Ann Frances Nix Wimberly was the first wife of John Lawson Wimberly who is named below her and died on April 13, 1888. John was Alice's brother. 

C. A. Martin was Charles Arthur Martin, son of Laura Frances Bryan Martin (Josie's biological sister) and Thomas Jefferson Martin. He died at age 27 on June 15, 1912. 

At the bottom of the second column find the deaths of Martha S. Caldwell and Alice M. Stewart sisters of Alice's mother, Lucy Lawson.

This final page names some birth and death dates of  Josie and Joe Cook's children. 

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James Bryan's Bible, 1869; scanned images, from the privately held collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019. Used with permission. 

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

Bienville Parish, Louisiana - The Lost Scrapbook

At least two letters from Georgia Ann Frances "Fannie" Bryan Pittman Wimberly, pictured above, were said to be in the lost scrapbook. In one of those letters, written on 21 January 1862, to her sister Catherine Amanda Bryan Watts and sister-in-law, Alice Mary Wimberly Bryan, Fannie writes of her visit to New Orleans to visit her husband, James "Jim" Pittman. Below are my two favorite excerpts from that letter. 

"The place all the time seems like it is tearing up from bottom to top. All seems confusion. I have not been in the streets yet. I recon I will see the elephant sure enough when I go."

"Oh my sakes, you just ought to see the Madam" She is one of them you read about I think she beats all I've seen yet."

Copies of Georgia Ann Frances' letters and others were sent to me by researcher Julia Brittain in the 1990s. Marguerite Cook Clark's collection of family information and photos, first accessed in 2014, also contained copies of some of the letters and newspaper clippings that are said to be in the scrapbook. 

Friday's Photo: Mr. William J. Trott at Lee School in Bienville Parish.

This photo was found in the Frye Family Collection. Written on the back is "Lee School." 

The picture appears to have been taken in the very early 1900s. The man in the middle of the photo is William Jackson Trott. On both the 1900 and 1910 U.S. census records his occupation was teacher. 

A comparison of the man in the photo and the William J. Trott family photos taken about 1908.

After looking for "Lee School" in old newspapers, I came to the conclusion that Lee School must have been the name of a community in Bienville Parish.  News from Lee School and Lee School Notes in the Bienville Democrat told of community news. The school was referred to as "the Lee School" or "the Lee School House."

I have enlarged portions of the photo to get a better look at the teachers and students. 

Friday's Photo: Lillie Mae Trott, from Bienville Parish to San Francisco

Lillie Mae Trott  1895 - 1985 [1]

Lillie Mae Trott, the daughter of Lula Laura Cook and William Jackson Trott, was born on 22 May 1895 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Lillie Mae's father was from Alabama, but her mother grew up in Bienville Parish. Lula Laura Cook was the daughter of Joseph Cook and Josie Bryan and the granddaughter of Joseph Bryan and Sarah Margaret Wimberly.[2] 

Lillie Mae grew up in Bienville Parish with two siblings, Allie Belle Trott and William Bryan Trott.[3] Lillie's father, William Trott, was a teacher in 1900 and 1910 but is shown as a farmer on the census in 1920.[4] Lula Laura, her mother, was known to be a teacher assistant and was appointed postmaster at Ringgold in 1932.[5] 

Lillie Mae Trott - about 1916 [11]

Lillie Mae married Herbert Benjamin Scott of Hope, Louisiana (now known as Fryeburg) sometime before 13 February 1916, when she was found as a resident of Hope as Mrs. H. B. Scott.[6] In December of 1917, Lillie Mae was working as a teacher in a public school in Hope, Louisiana but lived on Templeman Street in Shreveport.[7] By 1920 Lillie Mae and Herbert were living in Ringgold.[8] 

In 1922 Lillie Mae and her husband moved to Georgetown, Louisiana, and by 1926 they built a home in Pollock described as a residence and garage. The garage may have been a Ford dealership as H. B. Scott was the Ford Dealer in Pollock. At one time, it was also described as a filling station.[9] 

Lillie Mae was an active community member in Pollock. She was president of the PTA and a member of the State PTA Board; she organized the Pollock Community Fair and attended the State Woman's Missionary meeting in New Orleans.[10] 

Lillie Mae and Herbert had two children; Mary Beth Scott in 1920 and Jack Anthony Scott, who died at birth in 1926.[12] 

In 1928, the City Cafe opened in Pollock with Lillie Mae as the manager. On the 1930 U. S. Census, Lillie Mae's occupation was listed as a salesman in the insurance industry while her husband sold cars.[13] 

By 1931, Hebert Scott lived in Hope while Lillie Mae remained in Pollock. The Scott home burned later that year, and Lillie Mae and her daughter eventually moved to Alexandria.[14] 

Lillie Mae married Captain William W. Murphey on 15 February 1936 in Minden, Louisiana, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Hunter. They may have met in Alexandria as Captain Murphey was the executive officer at Camp Beauregard in Alexandria prior to their marriage. Following their marriage, they lived in Alabama and the Philippine Islands.[15] 

In the summer of 1941, Lillie Mae and her daughter, Mary Beth, evacuated the Philippine Islands with other military families due to safety concerns.[16] William Murphey, a Lieutenant Colonel, remained at Fort Stotsenburg in the Philippines and was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Bataan. He was eventually transferred to a prison camp on Honshu, where he died on 31 January 1945.[17]

After leaving the Philippines, Lillie Mae lived in San Francisco until the age of 85 when she moved to Alabama to live with her daughter. Lillie Mae died at the age of 90 in Alabama. She and her husband are buried in the San Francisco National Cemetery.[18] 

Click on the links below to see photos of Lillie Mae as a child and other Trott family photos.

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

Friday's Photo: A Trott Family Home in Bienville Parish

Friday's Photo: William Jackson Trott and Lula Laura Cook Wedding Photo - Bienville Parish 1893

Friday's Photo: The Trott Sisters, Lillie Mae, and Allie Belle, of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Friday's Photo: The William J. Trott Family of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Lula Laura Cook Trott

Friday's Photo: Benjamin F. Trott and Daughter Annie

Friday's Photo: Grandma Trott

Friday's Photo: Sam Trott

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    1. Lillie Mae Trott, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

    2.  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.

    3. ibid.

    4. 1910 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, Ward 4,  enumeration district 8, page 13A, dwelling 206, family  206, William J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/31111_4329971-00342?pId=166957930 : accessed 16 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll T624_509. Also, 1900 U.S. Census, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Ringgold, ward 4,  enumeration district 7, page 2A, dwelling 23, family 23, W. J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4120173_00878?pId=5899283: accessed 21 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 509. Also, 1920 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, ward 4,  enumeration district 140, page 2A, dwelling 163, family 153, W. J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4300961_00278?pId=29023813 : accessed 28 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 606. 

    5. 1910 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, Ward 4,  enumeration district 8, page 13A, dwelling 206, family  206, William J. Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/31111_4329971-00342?pId=166957930 : accessed 16 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll T624_509. Also, New Postmaster Takes Position at Ringgold, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 27 April 1932, p.5; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100644436/lula-laura-cook-trott-postmaster/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    6. Personals, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 13 February 1916, p.3; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100646494/lillie-mae-trott-is-mrs-h-b-scott-in/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    7. Personals, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 28 December 1917, p.10; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87464977/lillie-mae-trott-scott/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    8. 1920 U.S. Census, Bienville, Louisiana, population schedule, ward 4, Ringgold Village,  enumeration district 4, page 2B, dwelling 41, family 41, Herbert Scott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4300961_00259?pId=29022921 : accessed 28 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 606.

    9. Pollock Personals, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 28 December 1917, p.10; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468558/h-b-scott-new-carlillie-mae-trott/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Filling Station at Pollock Burns; Loss is $2000, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 21 February 1931, p.1; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87470129/burned-filling-station-lillie-mae/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock Feels Oil Field Boom, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 20 February 1926, p.4; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87466552/lillie-mae-trott-mm-hb-scott/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    10. Pollock, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 22 April 1928, p.30; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468934/state-missionary-meeting-new/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock Parent Teachers Meet, Weekly Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 21 January 1928, p.6; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468684/president-of-pta-also-vp-of-wmu/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock Community Fair Arrangements, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 11 September 1925, p.12; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87466036/mrs-h-b-scott-organizer-of-fair-lillie/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, State PTA Board Holds Meet Today, The Shreveport Journal, 30 September 1932, p.20; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84349595/state-pta-board-lilli-mae-trott-mrs/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    11. Lillie Mae Trott Scott, photograph, ca. 1916; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019. 

    12. Mary Pilkington, The Selma Times-Journal (Selma, Alabama), 23 September 1985, p.7; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58551888/obituary-for-mary-beth-scott-allen/?: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, Pollock, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 5 December 1926, p.40; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87467483/jack-anthony-baby-son-of-mr-and-mrs-h/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    13. Pollock Personals, Weekly Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 7 April 1928, p.4; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87468878/mrs-h-b-scott-manager-cafe-lille-mae/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, 1930 U.S. Census, Grant County, Louisiana, Pollock Town, population schedule, supervisor's district no. 5, enumeration district 22-4,  p.1A, dwelling 6, family 6, Herbert B. Scott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6224/images/4584878_00077?pId=34807365: accessed 24 April 2022); citing NARA microfilm T626.

    14. Pollock, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 14 February 1931, p.2; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87469987/hb-scott-living-in-hope-arkansas-so/: accessed 28 April 2022). Also, H. B. Scott Home at Pollock Burns, Loss Totals $6000, The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), 5 October 1931, p.8; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84350519/h-b-scott-home-burns-lillie-mae-trott/: accessed 28 April 2022).

    15. “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). Also, “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/clip/100675597/mary-beth-scott-allen-dau-of-lillie/ : accessed 8 Dec. 2021).

    16. Ibid.

    17. Find a Grave, database and images  (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8757949/william-wayne-murphey : accessed 28 April 2022), memorial page for LTC William Wayne Murphey, Find a Grave Memorial ID 8757949, citing San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA; Maintained by William Holly (contributor 46616971). 

    18. Lillie Murphey, The Selma Times-Journal (Selma, Alabama), 19 June1985, p.2; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84304632/lilli-mae-murphey-obituary/: accessed 28 April 2022).

Friday's Photo: Grandma Trott

I suspect this is Louisa Trucks (also seen as Cynthia Louisa Trucks) who married Benjamin Franklin Trott. If so, she would be the mother of William Jackson Trott of Bienville Parish and grandmother to his children Lillie Mae Trott, Allie Belle Trott, and William Bryan Trott. 

Louisa was born on 31 October 1848 in Alabama and died on 14 Jun 1925 in Bibb County, Alabama. She and her husband are buried in Six Mile Cemetery, Six Mile in Bibb County. 

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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70859189/cynthia-louisa-trott : accessed 01 April 2022), memorial page for Cynthia Louisa Trucks Trott (31 Oct 1848–14 Jun 1925), Find a Grave Memorial ID 70859189, citing Six Mile Cemetery, Sixmile, Bibb County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Betty (contributor 46824072). 

Grandma Trott, photograph, before 1925; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019. 

Friday's Photo: Benjamin F. Trott and Daughter Annie

The back of this photo from the Frye family collection identified B. F. Trott and Mrs. W. A. Gibbons.[1] 

Benjamin F. Trott was the father of William Jackson Trott who married Lula Laura Cook in 1893 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Lula was the daughter of Josie Bryan and Joseph W. Cook.[2] 

Mrs. W. A Gibbons is the former Annie Trott, daughter of Benjamin F. Trott and sister to William Jackson Trott. She was married to Wylie A. Gibbons.[3]

I suspect that this photo was not taken in Bienville Parish but at the home of Benjamin Trott or Annie Gibbons in Bibb County, Alabama. There is no date on the photo but Benjamin Trott died at age 83 in 1924.[4]

Other posts about this Trott family can be seen by clicking on the links below. 

Friday's Photo: A Trott Family Home in Bienville Parish

Friday's Photo: William Jackson Trott and Lula Laura Cook Wedding Photo - Bienville Parish 1893

Friday's Photo: The Trott Sisters, Lillie Mae, and Allie Belle, of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Friday's Photo: The William J. Trott Family of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Lula Laura Cook Trott

Friday's Photo: Sam Trott

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    1. B. F. Trott and Mrs. W. A. Gibbons, photograph, before 1924; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019. 

    2. "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4N1-GGS : 13 January 2022), William Trott in household of Benjamn Trott, Sixmile, Bibb, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).  Also, 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.

    3. "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J68C-H94 : 7 September 2021), Annie Trott Gibbons, 1952. Also, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JD51-P73 : 11 January 2021), Annie Gibbons in entry for Wiley Andrew Gibbons, 1936.

    4. Death of B. F. Trott, Centreville Press (Centreville, Alabama), 

31 Jan 1924, p.4; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97861107/b-f-trott-obit/: accessed 18 March 2022).

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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    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).