Tarlton Bryant
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Tarlton Bryant (1785 - 1854)

Tarlton Bryant
Born in South Carolina, United Statesmap
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Son of and
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married May 1807 (to 1830) [location unknown]
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Died at age 68 in Cocke, Tennessee, United Statesmap
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Biography

Tarlton was born on 3 August 1785 in South Carolina, USA. He was the son of William Bryant and Sarah (Hardage) Bryant.

In the 1800 census Tarlton (age 15) was living in Fairfield, South Carolina.[1] Tarlton served in the military in 1812 in United States.[2] Tarlton was recorded as a resident on 24 June 1828 in Cocke, Tennessee.[3]

In the 1830 census Tarlton (age 44) was living in Cocke, Tennessee, USA.[4] In 1839 Tarlton (age about 53) was living in Cocke, Tennessee, United States.[5] In the 1840 census Tarlton (age 54) was living in Cocke, Tennessee, USA.[6]

In 1850 Tarlton (age about 64) was living in District 11, Cocke, Tennessee.[7][8] The Census states he was a farmer and owned 4 Slaves. A mulatto male age 65, a black woman age 63, a black woman age 25 and a mulatto male child age 5. Could this child be the biological child of Tarlton? Could this child who was only 10 yrs old when Tarlton died been Amon, who came under the care of Tarlton's son Hardy? Is this why Hardy refused to ever sell Amon? Was it because they were half=brothers?

Tarlton died at the age of 68 on 18 January 1854 and was buried in English Creek, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA.[9]

On an unknown date Tarlton was living in South Carolina.[10]

Research Notes

  • Given Name: User 'RebeccaBryant9' on FamilySearch, on 28 Jul 2023, wrote: "I removed William from the beginning of Tarlton’s name. I believe this to be correct according to his Gravestone & Find a Grave. All family records have only Tarlton for his first name. I’m wondering if with a merge his name got changed." I have to agree with her and have removed 'William' from his name on this page. If there are sources to back up the name "William Tarlton Bryant," can they be added here? Stephens-7069 00:49, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Sources

  1. ↑ 1800 Census: 1800 United States Federal Census,
    Year: 1800; Census Place: Fairfield, South Carolina; Series: M32; Roll: 47; Page: 214; Image: 414; Family History Library Film: 181422.
  2. ↑ Military: "United States War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815," citing Affiliate Publication Title: Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812.; Affiliate Publication Number: M602; Digital film/folder number: 004867438; FHL microfilm: 000882542; Image number: 1833, (FamilySearch Record: Q29V-RLJV : accessed 3 May 2024) FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-G5CL-SPY, Name Tarleton Briant, Military Service Date from 1812 to 1815, Military Service Place United States, System Of Record SLS.
  3. ↑ Residence: "North Carolina and Tennessee, U.S., Early Land Records, 1753-1931," Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, Early Tennessee/North Carolina Land Records, Roll 71, Book 14, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 2882 #152516 : accessed 3 May 2024), Name Tarlton Briant, Record Date 24 Jun 1828, Location Cocke, Tennessee, Warrant Number 15249.
  4. ↑ 1830 Census: "United States Census, 1830," citing Page: 264; Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Affiliate Publication Number: M19; Digital film/folder number: 005156021; FHL microfilm: 0024538; Image number: 519, (FamilySearch Record: XHP9-Z1Q : accessed 3 May 2024) FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9YYK-S19Y, Tarlton Bryant in Cocke, Tennessee, United States.
  5. ↑ 1839 Tax Record: "Tennessee, U.S., Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895," The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, Early Tax Lists of Tennessee, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 2883 #100138 : accessed 3 May 2024), Name Tarlton Bryant, Residence Date 1839, Residence Place Cocke, Tennessee, USA.
  6. ↑ 1840 Census: "United States Census, 1840," citing Page: 265; Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Affiliate Publication Number: M704; Digital film/folder number: 005154897; FHL microfilm: 0024542; Image number: 538, (FamilySearch Record: XHT1-WMH : accessed 3 May 2024) FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GYYF-FYX, Tarlton Briant in Cocke, Tennessee, United States.
  7. ↑ 1850 Census: "1850 United States Federal Census," The National Archives in Washington D.C., Record Group Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group Number 29, Series Number M432, Residence Date 1850, Home in 1850 District 11, Cocke, Tennessee, Roll 874, Page 381a, Line Number 28, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 8054 #6027639 : accessed 3 May 2024), Farleton Bryant (38) in District 11, Cocke, Tennessee, USA. Born in South Carolina.
  8. ↑ 1850 Slave Schedule: "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850," citing Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Affiliate Publication Number: M432; Line: 33; Digital film/folder number: 004206173_012_M9C6-N99; FHL microfilm: 444858; Image number: 5; Packet letter: A; Indexing batch: N01136-7, (FamilySearch Record: HRWD-MTW2 : accessed 3 May 2024) FamilySearch Image: S3HY-6X37-6ZJ, Tarleton Bryant, slave owner, in 1850 in Cocke, Tennessee, United States.
  9. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image), (Find A Grave: Memorial #104297444 : accessed 3 May 2024), Memorial page for Tarlton Bryant (3 Aug 1785-18 Jan 1854), citing Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery, English Creek, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Gene Bryant (contributor 47986115).
  10. ↑ Residence: U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900.




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Aiken-461 Tammy Aiken
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. But the first Bryant burial was probably Hardy's daughter Martha, about whom little is known. Hardy's wife, Cindy, whose death preceded his by a few months, was the second Bryant burial. Hardy was buried there in 1881. Prior to that, there were Sisk family burials. Hence, the New Bryant Cemetery eventually became known as the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery. 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 RevolutRevolutionary 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.

(Also part of the Hardy Bryant household was Amon, a slave raised as a child. According to a story handed down through generations, a slave trader once offered Hardy $1,000 for Amon, who heard the offer and began crying. Hardy reportedly said he would not sell Amon for any amount of money. Amon was still a young man when the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (abolition of slavery) was ratified. Hardy told Amon he was free to leave. Amon remained in the Newport area working as a hired laborer. He kept in close contact with his Bryant relatives. Although unconfirmed, Amon possibly could be buried in the Bryant-Sisk Cemetery.)

posted by Tammy Aiken
Aiken-461 Tammy Aiken
Tarlton Bryant was a son of William Bryan (1735-1799) of N.C. and Sarah Hardage of S.C. The family name was Bryan, but Tarlton opted for Bryant. Tarlton and 3 brothers (William, Edward and John) moved to Cocke County between 1805 and 1808. Tarlton settled in the vicinity of present-day Bogard and Friendship roads (English Creek Community).

Tarlton's brother Edward Bryan, his wife Elizabeth, and 3 children spent some time with Tarlton before moving to Knox County where 2 other children were born. All 3 Bryan brothers eventually moved on to Kentucky, later to Indiana. The sisters remained in S.C.

Edward Bryan died in 1846 in Greene County, Ind. His widow Elizabeth remarried. Three of their children, William, Elizabeth, and John, as young children spend some time in Cocke County. Polly was born in Knox County (even though her memorial lists S.C., where her older siblings were born). William does not have a Find A Grave memorial. But his son "Ned" has a well maintained memorial with family links and photos.

Tarlton married Jane Henry. Their children were Eva (Hickey), Brummit, James Hardin "Hardy," Aaron, Mary "Polly" (Hicks), William Morris, Levina "Vina" (Branch), and Lucy (died young). After Jane's early death, Tarlton married "Miss Allen" (full identity unknown). They had a son, William Carson. (With 2 sons, half-brothers, named William, the older was known as "Morris.")

After Tarlton returned from service in the War of 1812, he purchased (with a land grant) a second tract of land in the Lower English Creek Community, about a mile down stream from his home place. The Bryant & Sisk Cemetery, where many of Tarlton's descendants are buried, was carved from this farm. After Tarlton's death, the Lower English Creek farmland was passed on to his son, Hardy Bryant. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the land was held by Hardy's sons, Judd and Ananias Bryant. After Ananias's death, his land was passed on to daughter Cordelia and her husband Jim Breeden. Today, these original Bryant land holdings are subdivided and owened by various families not related to the Bryants.

Tarlton and Jane were buried on their Upper English Creek farm. The cemetery has since vanished from the surface.

[There were no other known Bryants in Cocke County when Tarlton came from South Carolina. But by the mid-1800s there was a nearby family of Bryants in the Lower Bogard/Upper English Creek Community. The matriarch of the Bogard Bryants was Lavinia. Her origin is unknown, but there is speculation that Tarlton may have been her father. If this is the case, all native Cocke County Bryants are descendants of Tarlton. The father of Lavinia's children (Mary, John, James & Noah), who retained the “Bryant” name (sometimes "Denton"), was William Denton. Lavinia's son James Jefferson Bryant and many of his descendants are buried in the Aunt Bert Bryant Cemetery, about a mile from the Tarlton Bryant Family Cemetery. Lavinia's daughter, Mary Ann, married John Keener and later Moses Hicks Jr. Mary and Moses are buried in Missouri. Lavinia's son John married and started a family in the English Creek Community before moving away. Three of his sons, John Jr., Roten and James, along with their sister Alice Eslinger, remained in Cocke County. Another son, Dan, lived in Rockwood

posted by Tammy Aiken

Rejected matches › William Washington Bryan Sr (1784-1855)

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