Re: Elizabeth Ann (Blakely) Bryson (1788-1874) SC to MS
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Elizabeth Ann (Blakely) Bryson (1788-1874) SC to MS
G Barbour 8/08/04
Just noticed your post tonight and saw that it concerns my direct line of ancestors.I live in the same community that my ggg grandmother Elizabeth Ann Blakely Bryson and many members of her family moved to in 1851 from Laurens County, SC.Her daughter Emily and Matthew Hunter Bryson were my gg grandparents.I've spent many hours attempting to locate Matthew and his parents in SC prior to 1840.His first wife who died in MS was Mahalia Pulliam from SC and then he and his children moved to Bethany, MS and he later married Emily. Ann Blakley Bryson and her large family came to MS as part of a larger group led by their ARP pastor, Rev. J. L. Young of Providence Church in Laurens Cty, SC.The church no longer exists and I think it was probably closed after the congregation and pastor left. About all I can glean from the history of our family as well as the usual customs of many of the Scot-Irish who came to America in the mid to late 1700's was to move on westward when the area in which they lived became too heavily populated or else the political climate was getting unfavorable.This family was mainly farmers, preachers and a few merchants who continued to seek new and fertile land in which to settle.Rev. Young already had some relatives in NE Miss and I know a few Brysons and other Scot-Irish were here following the Chickasaw removal to Oklahoma. This land is very much like their property in SC and they quickly adapted here, but many have moved on west over the years.
As you probably know Ann Blakely's husband, James Bryson was a son of William Bryson who came from County Antrim, Ireland to Greenville, SC in abt. 1772 on the ship Hopewell, which was one of five ships arranged by his Presbyterian Pastor in Ireland as a direct result of the many problems they faced there.Since many of the Brysons of NC and SC came through the port of Philadelphia as well as Greenville,SC they kind of got mixed up in SC because of similar given names.If I remember correctly, Ann Blakely Bryson's family came from PA to the Carolinas?? I assume she and James Bryson must have met in the intersection of the two families in the Piedmont area of the old 96 district of SC.
Another point in my extemporaneous thesis is that Matthew and three of his children died in old Pontotoc (now Lee) County in 1862 and then Emily and her mother and remaining children lived together until her death in 1874.According to their pastor, Dr. Sam Agnew, in his widely read diary, Matthew's death left them in poverty and then the Civil War Battle of Brice's Crossroads fought on the site of the old Bethany Church along with cholera and dysentary took it's toll on the entire population.Reconstruction then set in, followed by the great depression and has left their effect on NE MS up to the recent years.
I appreciate the opportunity to reply to your post and would like to communicate more with a distant cousin.
James R. Bryson
Guntown, MS 38849
[email protected]
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Re: Elizabeth Ann (Blakely) Bryson (1788-1874) SC to MS
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Re: Elizabeth Ann (Blakely) Bryson (1788-1874) SC to MS
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Re: Elizabeth Ann (Blakely) Bryson (1788-1874) SC to MS