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Bryant Family Cemetery - GenealogyIf you would like to contribute genealogy information about this cemetery, please contact us at: There is extensive genealogy on the Bryant and Ballard family published on the Internet. A summary of is provided to give background on those buried in the cemetery, with links to more extensive information. Bryant FamilyA note from Becky Morgan Cheney: This family research has been a work in progress for MANY years! Many other family members have contributed to the knowledge that I have tried to put into a manageable form for others. Most notably, credit should go to my mother, Reba Bryant Morgan, and the late Laurene Bryant Beckett and W.B. Bryant. Others who have contributed to the total descendant list include persons from the various other family lines who share William and Mary Ann Bryant as common ancestors and also other family members of the various other families who have crossed our paths along the way. Please contact me by e-mail for more specific information at arkbecks@sbcglobal.net. William Bryant & Mary Ann “Polly” Barnett
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http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/h/e/Becky-M-Cheney/
We have traced our particular line of Bryants definitively back to William Bryant (About 1757-1833) & Mary Ann "Polly" Barnett (About 1770-1860). They were married on March 4, 1784 at the home of her father, Zadock Barnett in Wilkes County, Georgia. We do not know the exact birthplace of William but suspect it was Bedford, Virginia. Other facts about William include: heserved in the Revolutionary War, enlisting as a Private at the age of 20 on 12 January 1777 from Amherst County, Virginia, in the 14th Virginia Regiment. He participated in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and was wounded in the leg at Stony Point, NY. He was discharged in February 1780 at Reading, Pennsylvania. We believe he may have been given a land grant for his military service and migrated to Georgia prior to his marriage. He appears on the 1800 census for Oglethorpe County, GA. Subsequent census records find him in the counties of Gwinnett, Campbell, and Morgan.
William and Mary Ann had eight children: Descendant Report for Jefferson "Jeff" Davis BryantSource: Becky Chaney (arkbecks@sbcglobal.net) and (Linda Simmons (genfreak@pacbell.net) compiled from research by the late Laurene Bryant Beckett.
..... 1 Jefferson "Jeff" Davis Bryant (1858 - 1891) b: 07 Apr 1858 in
Campbell County, GA, d: 06 Mar 1891 in Campbell County, GA
........... 2 Elijah "Lige" Walter Bryant (1885 - 1940) b: 20 Jan 1885
in Campbell County, GA, d: 06 Apr 1940 in Fulton County, GA
................. 3 Clastell Bryant (1906 - 1940) b: Bet. 1906–1907 in
Douglas County, GA, d: 14 Jan 1940 in Fulton County, GA The Ballards of Randolph County, Alabama
Source: Allan Joshua Ballard. Aballard@ix.netcom.com
Benjamin’s son Joshua married Elizabeth Bryant. They left the
Wilkes/Morgan County area and settled or settled in Annistown on the
Yellow River in Gwinnett County, just to the North. Joshua built or
acquired a mill of some type that eventually burned, along with the
family Bible. Joshua was active in local politics as indicated by early
Gwinett records detailing his commission to build a road from the
Gwinett County seat to an adjoining county. Joshua and Elizabeth are
also listed as among the first forty families in Gwinnett (The History
of Gwinnett). Although Joshua is not known to be a veteran, about one
half of his pioneering neighbors in Gwinnett were veterans of the
colonial war for independence. By 1833 Joshua and his family left Gwinett for the north Coweta/south Fulton county Georgia area separated from Carroll county by the Chattahoochee River. This area became Campbell County, and then Fulton County. This move was to the South and West, and continued the family trend of locating on the western frontier near a river or creek. Joshua and Elizabeth settled amongst his maternal brothers-in-law Elijah, John, and George W. Bryant. This area had previously been settled by the Revolutionary War veteran William Bryant. There they died and are buried on what was apparently a large Bryant land holding on the Chattahoochee river. It contained a fish camp that is much remembered to this day by Ballard relatives and Bryants who visited as children. The nearest towns were Whitesburg, across the river in Carroll county, and Palmetto Georgia, in the opposite direction in Coweta County, now Fulton County. Eventually the general area became known as the Rico Community. The Rico Providence Baptist Church was established in the 1850’s. Their son Armisted is buried in Rico about a mile down the unpaved road behind the Rico Providence Baptist Church. Many Bryants also are buried at the Rico Providence Baptist Church.
In this area the Chattahoochee is wide, and shoaled. The land on either
bank is low bordering up to hilly country. A railroad crosses the river
just downstream from the main bridge taking the present day highway from
Coweta over the river to Carroll County. |
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