Family/Spouse: COLEMAN, Lydia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: DILLON, John. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: Apr. 25, 1828
Cocke County
Tennessee, USA
Death: 1880
Cocke County
Tennessee, USA

Lucinda "Cindy" Dillon was the wife of James Hardin "Hardy" Bryant. She was the daughter of John Dillon and Mary Vinson. (John was a son of Thomas Dillon and Margaret Eagan. Mary was a daughter of William Vinson Sr. and Lydia Coleman of the Edwina Community in Cocke Co.)

U.S. and International Marriage Records
Name: Thomas Dillon
Gender: Male
Spouse Name: Margaret Eagan
Spouse Birth Place: VA
Spouse Birth Year: 1772
Marriage Year: 1793

U.S. and International Marriage Records
Name: John Dillon
Gender: Male
Spouse Name: Mary Vinson
Spouse Birth Place: TN
Spouse Birth Year: 1812

Most Dillon families left Cocke County for western states: Missouri, Kansas and Texas.

John Dillon's sister Letitia Dillon married Thomas Mantooth Jr. Their son Hugh, born and married in Cocke County, is buried in Kansas. John's sister Margaret "Peggy" Dillon married George Gray. He had 2 brothers, Thomas Jr. and James.

[Cindy's sister Julia Dillon married Elias Clevenger Jr.. Cindy's brother Calvin Dillon married Nancy Gray, daughter of James Gray Jr. and Syche Clevenger. Calvin and Nancy moved to Missouri. One of their sons, Thomas Jefferson Dillon, returned to Cocke County as a youth and lived with various relatives in the English Creek Community. Cindy's sister Lydia married Thomas Mantooth. Thomas and Lydia died on the same day in 1865 in Texas, both from accidental poisoning by a quack doctor. Thomas and Lydia's son Judge James Edwin Mantooth became a wealthy and prominent Texan.

Family/Spouse: BRYANT, James Hardin. James (son of BRYANT, Tarlton and HENRY, Jane) was born on 22 Dec 1817 in Cocke County, TN; died on 20 Jan 1881 in Cocke County, TN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: SISK, Nancy. Nancy (daughter of SISK, Lawson and CLEVENGER, Sarah) was born on 5 May 1849; died on 3 Apr 1888. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: ROBERTS, Sarah Amanda. Sarah was born in 1869; died in 1933. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: HALL, Cordelia Anne. Cordelia was born in 1853; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Family/Spouse: HOLLOWAY, Clinton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: MCNABB, G R. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: Nov. 26, 1864
Death: Feb. 15, 1941

married James Allen Clevenger

Name: Mary Clevenger
Event: Death
Event Date: 15 Feb 1941
Event Place: Newport, Cocke, Tennessee
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Race or Color: White
Age: 76
Estimated Birth Year:
Birth Date: 26 Nov 1864
Birthplace: Cocke Co., Tennessee
Spouse:
Father: Hardy Bryant
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother: Unknown
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Domestic
Street Address:
Residence: Newport, Cocke Co., Tennessee
Cemetery: Sl... Creek
Burial Place: Cocke County
Burial Date: 16 Feb 1941
Informant:
Additional Relatives:
Digital Folder Number: 4184461
Image Number: 330
Film Number: 1876896
Volume/Page/Certificate Number: cn 2781

Family links:
Parents:
James Hardin Bryant (1817 - 1881)
Lucinda Dillon Bryant (1828 - 1880)

Spouse:
J. A. Clevenger (1855 - 1920)

Children:
Laura Clevenger Thomas (1882 - 1946)*
Roy Clevenger (1882 - 1891)*
Thomas N. Clevenger (1882 - 1959)*
Bertha M. Kirk (1884 - 1955)*
Vibbard Clevenger (1893 - 1940)*
Gaston Earl Clevenger (1895 - 1970)*
William Jennings Bryan Clevenger (1898 - 1945)*
Kenneth K. Clevenger (1898 - 1921)*
Date Clevenger (1900 - 1955)*
Hardy Clevenger (1902 - 1988)*
Hazel Clevenger Fox (1905 - 1989)*

Siblings:
Martha Bryant (1843 - ____)*
Aaron Bryant (1847 - 1932)*
Ananias S. Bryant (1850 - 1916)*
Addison Judson Bryant (1852 - 1938)*
Emma E. Bryant McNabb (1854 - 1935)*
Thomas Bryant (1856 - 1882)*
Julia Bryant Holloway (1863 - ____)*
Mary Dolphas Bryant Clevenger (1864 - 1941)

Family/Spouse: CLEVENGER, James Allen. James was born in 1855; died in 1920. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]