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Submitted: 10/5/17 • Approved: 10/5/17 • Last Updated: 3/26/18 • R134669-G134669-S3
Washington Carroll
PRIVATE General MacGruder's Command
Civil War Confederate States Army
15 Jan 1824 - 9 Apr 1905
Mason
Born in Williamson County, Tennessee and
died in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas
Obituary: W C Bryan
Washington Carroll Bryan was born on Big Harper, Williamson County, Tennessee, on January 15th, 1824
and died at his home in Abilene, Texas on April 9, 1905.
His grand parents emigrated from Ireland and his father served through the war of the revolution.
W C Bryan's father settled at Cochran Springs where Vanderbilt University now stands when the subject of this sketch was quite young.
Leaving home alone when 12 or 15 years of age he went to Mississippi where he remained a few years, working at getting our saw logs, at $10 a month.
He came to Texas in 1816, landing at Indianola. From
there he walked to Gonzales and there engaged in blacksmithing, following that occupation six years.
His health then gave way and he went into the ranger service under General Henry McCullough, Remaining in this service a year or two.
When about 35 years of age he went to Old Mexico, and Bought his first bunch of horses and established the T Diamond Brand when he kept to the of his death.
He took his horses to Falls county and was there married to Miss Sophia Ann Myers on January 9, 1859.
He enlisted as a Private in the Confederate service and was mustered our at Waco.
He moved his cattle to Jones county in 1879, bringing his family to Abilene in 1885.
He established a big ranch in Jones and Fisher counties, which he owned at the time of his death.
He was a successful man in the oest sense of the word, accumulating a fortune, and that without wronging any man.
He and his wife, who died a year ago, reared a family one son and two daughters who are worthy of their forbears and whose lives speak louder than words of the characters formed by them to make the work better.
The son, Honorable W J Bryan, is serving his tried term in the state legislature, and is one of the most influential members of that body.
One daughter is the wife of Judge N K Legett and the other of Sam C Young, both ladies of culture, refinement, and ornaments to their homes and model wives and mothers.
To the bereaved we tender sincere sympathy and in memory of the noble man who has passed to his reward, we render honor, in common with all who knew him as a man of honor, of kindliness, upright character, with a kind word and a smile for all with whom he came in contact.
He carried sunshine rather than clouds, and his genial greetings to friend and neighbor will be sadly missed.
Would that more of his kind were scattered over this world.
Obituary Courtesy of antsunshine
Sophia 1837 - 1905
Daughter of Robert W Wyres and Harriett Shipp Wyres
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Contributed on 10/5/17
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