BRYANT, Ananias Sodie
1850 - 1916 (65 years)-
Name BRYANT, Ananias Sodie Birth 4 Mar 1850 English Creek, Cocke County, TN 
Gender Male Death 11 Jan 1916 English Creek, Cocke County, TN Person ID I179650 Laur from Germany Last Modified 1 Oct 2016
Father BRYANT, James Hardin, b. 22 Dec 1817, Cocke County, TN d. 20 Jan 1881, Cocke County, TN (Age 63 years) Mother DILLON, Lucinda, b. 25 Apr 1828, Cocke County, TN d. 1880, Cocke County, TN (Age 51 years) Family ID F65854 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family SISK, Sarah, b. Jul 1851, TN d. 1916 (Age 64 years) Marriage Abt 1867 Children 1. BRYANT, Addison H, b. 7 May 1868, TN d. 12 Mar 1948, Ray County, MO (Age 79 years)2. BRYANT, Judge Andrew, b. 20 Dec 1869, Cocke County, TN d. 1 Oct 1940, Cocke County, TN (Age 70 years)3. BRYANT, Delia, b. Abt 1871, TN d. 20 May 1939, Newport, Cocke County, TN (Age 68 years)4. BRYANT, Lucinda, b. 8 Oct 1873, English Creek, Cocke County, TN d. 19 Jan 1936, English Creek, Cocke County, TN (Age 62 years)5. BRYANT, Daniel, b. 22 Jan 1876, TN d. 15 Mar 1930, Knoxville, Knox County, TN (Age 54 years)6. BRYANT, Taylor, b. 14 Oct 1878, TN d. 13 Apr 1942 (Age 63 years)7. BRYANT, Thomas Nelson, b. 14 Dec 1880, TN d. 20 Jan 1926, Newford, Cocke County, TN (Age 45 years)8. BRYANT, Julia, b. 3 Nov 1883, TN d. 23 Jan 1917 (Age 33 years)9. BRYANT, Lawson Lee, b. 4 Apr 1886, Cocke County, TN d. 4 Oct 1947, Ray County, MO (Age 61 years)10. BRYANT, Joseph B, b. 7 Apr 1889, TN d. 20 Jan 1935, Newport, Cocke County, TN (Age 45 years)11. BRYANT, Elbert Sisk, b. 25 Oct 1891 d. 26 Feb 1893, TN (Age 1 year)Family ID F61178 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 16 Nov 2024
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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 "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.