Arvel married TREON, Mildred Wathena on 28 Feb 1953 in Ludlow, Livingston County, MO. Mildred (daughter of TREON, Reuben and TOWNSEND, Mary Gladys) was born on 17 Nov 1924 in Breckenridge, Caldwell County, MO; died on 10 Mar 2011 in Chillicothe, Livingston County, MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. BRYANT, Gerald W
2. BRYANT, David

John + TONER, Beulah Belle. Beulah was born in 1903; died in 1945. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: Dec. 20, 1869
Death: Oct. 1, 1940

Funeral services for the late Judge A. Bryant, who died suddenly at the family home about 10 miles southwest of town Tuesday of last week, were held from Little Union church Saturday.

Last week's Bee told of the finding of Mr. Bryant's body lying beside a horse in the barn on his farm. Death was attributed to a heart attack.

The following obiturary was read at the funeral:
Judge Andrew Bryant, son of Annanias and Sarah Sisk Bryant was born in Cocke County, Tenn. on December 20th, 1869, and departed this life October 1st, 1940, making his stay on earth 70 years, nine months and eleven days.

He came to Missouri in an early day and was united in marriage to Esther C. Clevenger in 1898. To this union 13 children - L. B. Bryant, Holliday, Texas; J. L. Bryant, Mooresville, Mo.; Roy Bryant, Cowgill; Lee Bryant, Bakersfield, California, Mrs. Ethel Reigel, Kansas City, Mo.; Allen Bryant, Cowgill; Mrs. Opal Vanbelcher, Kansas City, Mo.; Lloyd Bryant, Braymer; Mrs. Hazel McBee, Braymer; Mrs. Mabel Ellis, Kansas Ciaty, Kansas; Mrs. Faye Falconer, Kansas City, Mo.; and Lawrence Bryant of the home. A daughter, Fern, preceded him in death. He is also survived by 30 grand-childfren and three brothers, A. H. Bryant, Cowgill; L. L. Bryant, Excelsior Springs, Mo.; and Taylor Bryant, New Port, Tenn., besides a host of other relatives and friends.

He united with the Primitive Baptist church in 1896, and was a faithful member until the end.

(Obit: courtesy of Walter Gillespie)

Judge married CLEVENGER, Esther Columbia in 1898. Esther (daughter of CLEVENGER, Daniel and TURNAGE, Sultana) was born on 9 Feb 1875 in MO; died on 26 Jan 1961. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: Feb. 9, 1875
Death: Feb. 16, 1961

Wife of Andrew Bryant

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Parents:
Daniel Clevenger (1842 - 1915)
Sultana Turnage Clevenger (1847 - 1912)

Spouse:
Judge Andrew Bryant (1869 - 1940)

Children:
John Lewis Bryant (1896 - 1955)*
Milton Lee Bryant (1900 - 1977)*
Judge Allen Bryant (1903 - 1978)*
Opal R Bryant VanBebber Chezem (1906 - 1994)*
Loyd C Bryant (1908 - 1993)*
Hazel P Bryant McBee (1910 - 1994)*
Mabel Claudine Bryant Ellis (1912 - 2006)*
Helen Faye Bryant Davis (1914 - 1990)*
Lawrence Landon Bryant (1917 - 1995)*

Siblings:
Jesse Calvin Clevenger (1866 - 1949)*
Aaron O. Clevenger (1867 - 1956)*
Pittman M Clevenger (1869 - 1942)*
John Ammon Clevenger (1870 - 1949)*
Lettie Jane Clevenger Griffey (1872 - 1968)*
Esther Columbia Clevenger Bryant (1875 - 1961)
Eva Clevenger (1877 - 1896)*
Henrietta Clevenger Clevenger (1879 - 1912)*
Bartlett Monroe Clevenger (1881 - 1955)*
Luther M Clevenger (1883 - 1966)*
Cora Ann Clevenger Mills (1887 - 1978)*

Notes:

Ananias "Nias" Bryant was a prominent farmer in the Lower English Creek Community at the turn of the century (end of 19th, beginning of 20th). His farm, which straddled the creek, was part of a larger tract purchased in the early 1800s by his grandfather, Tarlton Bryant, who came to Cocke County from South Carolina soon after the turn of that previous century. Bryant-Sisk Cemetery, where Ananias and many members of his family and descendants are buried, was originally part of that property.

In 1867 Nias married Sarah Sisk, a granddaughter of Revolutionary War veteran Bartlett Sisk. Nias and Sarah were parents of a dozen children (7 buried near them in Bryant-Sisk). Three of their sons (Add, Judd and Lee) moved to Missouri, where they raised families.

"Ananias" is a biblical name, with 3 characters in the Bible named Ananias, including a disciple of Jesus Christ. The initial "S." was for "Sodie" (Sodi), an Old Testament name. Nias considered himself a follower of Christ. (See cutline under the PB hymnal photo to the right). Nias was an active Primitive Baptist at the time his denomination was beginning to consider less rigid interpretations of the Scriptures. His uncle Brummit Bryant had been a Primitive Baptist minister. Two of Nias's sons, Joe and Lee, became Primitive Baptist ministers. His grandson Dan Clevenger (son of Lucinda) became a founder of a spin-off congregation of the Big Pigeon Primitive Baptist Church.

Nias died at age 66 in 1916. Listed on his death certificate as undertaker was James Breeden, a son-in-law (husband of Cordelia). After Nias's death, James and Cordelia Breeden became owners his farm.

Nias had 7 siblings. His brothers were Aaron, Judd and Thomas. His sisters were Martha (died as a teenager), Emma (Mrs. Sam McNabb of Ark.), Julia (Mrs. Clinton Holloway) and Mary (Mrs. J.A. Clevenger).

BRYANT-SISK CEMETERY: In the late 1800s there were two Bryant cemeteries in the English Creek Community, both on Tarlton Bryant properties (about a mile apart). Tarlton had owned an Upper English Creek farm, his homesite left to son Brummit, and a Lower English Creek farm, left to son Hardy. The "Old Bryant Cemetery," the Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery, was on the upper tract; the "New Bryant Cemetery" was created on the lower tract. The first burials in the new cemetery may have been a few slaves from the area. Sisk family burials may have preceded Bryants. These earliest graves were marked with fieldstones. The first chiseled inscription on a fieldstone was in 1878. The first incised lettering on a cut stone was in 1888. There is an engraved stone for Revolutionary War veteran Bartlett Sisk, who died in 1840, but his stone was placed there decades later, after his body was exhumed from the old Big Pigeon Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery and reburied in Bryant-Sisk. Hardy's sons Aaron and Ananias are buried there. A third son, Judd, is buried across the road in the Click-Hannon Cemetery. A third and more recent Bryant cemetery is the Will Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery, also on the Upper English Creek tract.

[Research by Gene Bryant, whose father, James ANANIAS Bryant, was a grandson of Nias. Thomas Nelson Bryant, one of Nias's sons and James's father, was living at Nias Bryant's old home place when James was born.]

Ananias married SISK, Sarah about 1867. Sarah (daughter of SISK, Lawson and CLEVENGER, Sarah) was born in Jul 1851 in TN; died in 1916. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel + TURNAGE, Sultana. Sultana was born in 1847; died in 1912. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]