 
Dallas Morning News 24 October 1889 PROMINENT CITIZEN KILLED A Team Runs Away, Crushing Him Between a Tree and the Wagon. WHITEWRIGHT, Tex., Oct. 23 - A.M. Bryant, an ex-judge of Grayson county, also one of the members of the body that reconstructed the constitution of 1869, was killed this evening at his home by a runaway team. He was standing on the double tree of his wagon when the team became frightened and started on a run. After running 100 yards they ran astride of a tree and he was caught between the wagon bed and tree and crushed to death. He lived about five minutes. The Whitewright Sun October 1889 The citizens of our little city have probably never received such a shock as on late Wednesday afternoon when a young man came dashing into town and announced that Judge Bryant was fatally injured by a runaway team. The facts, as best we could gather, are about as follows: Judge Bryant had gone out from the house, a little after noon to the barn where a young man was unloading some corn from a wagon; it seems considerable of the corn had fallen on the ground, so the Judge told the young man he would drive the team up a little so he (the boy) could pipck up the corn. The Judge probably intending to get into the wagon, stepped upon the double tree, but the team started before he could get into the wagon. The team began to run almosty immediately, circling around the lot, they ran out the gate into the pasture, running at full speed they came to a tree, and going one on each side of the tree, jerked the wagon with terrific force against the tree, releasing them from the wagon. The collision with the tree was attended with fatal results to the Judge. His left leg was mangled and the bones shattered in a horrible manner, from below the knee to the body. The young man, whom the Judge thought to assist, arrived on the scene almost simultaneous with the collision. The wounded man told him to roll the wagon back, which were his last words. The Judge's only daughter, Miss Mollie, arrived immediately after the accident, but his lips were silent, and his eyes alone conveyed the much coveted recognition to his affectionate daughter. He died in a few moments with his head resting in her lap. Judge Bryant was known in this state as one of the most prominent men and leading members of the Republican Party, having been a member of the convention at the Reconstruction of the Constitution in 1869, also having served as county judge of this county. He was 70 years old. The remains were interred in the city cemetery Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock with all Masonic honors. In the death of Judge Bryant, our community loses one of its most substantial and respected citizens, whose friends were numbered by his acquaintances. A sorrowing community extend their condolence to the bereaved family, and we hope that time, the balm that heals all wounds, will prove efficient in their case. Source: Joe W. Chumbley. Kentucktytown and its Baptist Church. Houston, Texas: D. Armstrong Co., Inc., c1975, pg.167.  Whitewright City Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
