Clarissa
"Clarissie" Young Bryant, wife of Anthony M. Bryant, died 24 March 1853
and "....was buried two miles north of Kentucky Town on a plot of
ground on the south side of Camp Branch...The plot was to become known
as the Batsell Cemetery...Little Maria (Mariah) Bryant...was to die at
the age of 14 on August 15, 1859 and be buried beside her
mother...Cause of her death is unknown..." Letter written by Anthony Murry Bryant, made available through courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Bryant. Kentucky Town, Texas Grayson County May 10, 1854 John Bloyd, Esqr Greensburg, Kentucky Green County I received your kind letter dated Apr. 15th, which informed me that you and family was as well as usual and all went to the election...I wrote to you and also to Robert Graham, informing you of the sad and melancholly and heart tendering event that took place on the 24th of March last, the death of my wife 1853....I have met with difficulties and troubles I have thought sufficient to brake the heart of any man but this last affliction was greater than all to be left in a distant country with my little children is almost too much for a poor frail human nature to endure, I am the most unhappy man you ever saw. I informed you in my last letter of all my afflictions out of nine girls, four only are left..... There has been a great deal of sickness in this county and a great many deaths. Dr. J.L. Heiston, died a few days ago with the same fever, alson one of his children and also one of his negroes. You can inform Clarissie's sisters that everything in the way of attention and medical aid was exhausted in trying to save her but it seemed that her hour had come...." Your ever true and devoted friend and brother, Respectfully, Anthony M. Bryant. Chumbley, Joe W. Kentucky Town and Its Baptist Church. Houston, Texas : D. Armstrong Co., Inc., c1975, pg.15-16  Burials Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
