Mary Morgan (Boone) Bryan (1736 - 1819)

Born 3 Nov 1736 in Exeter Township, Berks, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of William Christopher Bryan Sr. — married 1755 in Rowan County, North Carolina near present day Mocksville

Wife of Charles Smith — married 19 Sep 1818 in Pendleton County, Kentucky

Descendants

Died 6 Jul 1819 at age 82 in Ravens Creek, Harrison, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Mary (Boone) Bryan performed Patriotic Service in Virginia in the American Revolution.

Mary (Boone) Bryan is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A016269.

Mary Boone, sister of Daniel Boone, was born November 14, 1736 to Squire and Sarah (Morgan) Boone in Exeter, Berks Co. Pennsylvania.^[1] She moved with her family to North Carolina in the Spring of 1750.^[2]

Mary married William Bryan in 1755 or 1756 in Rowan County, North Carolina.^[3] William and Mary (Boone) Bryan had 10 children:

• Samuel Bryan (married Isabella Hunt 1775)
• Daniel Boone Bryan (married Elizabeth Turner)
• Sarah Bryan (married Col. William Chinn;^[4] moved to Missouri)
• William Bryan
• Phoebe Bryan
• Hannah Bryan
• John Bryan
• Abner Bryan
• Elizabeth Bryan
• Mary Bryan

After William's death in 1781, Mary married General Charles Smith.^[5]

Mary (Boone/Bryan) Smith died July 6, 1819, in Rowan County.^[6] She is buried in Oakland Cemetery, Grants Lick, Campbell County, Kentucky.

Mary Bryan helped defend the Bryan's Station [[1]](Fort) when the men were away hunting. Once when the fort was surrounded by Indians & the women were out of water she led a group to the spring, returning unharmed. "The Ancestry of an American Family" by Katherine Denney Blaylock

Research Notes

According to one of Mary Boone's descendants, Mary was buried on the Samuel Bryan farm in Campbell County, Kentucky. In 1929 her remains were moved to the Oakland cemetery at Grants Lick in Campbell County, Kentucky by the D.A.R.

(Kentucky Records Research Committee, Kentucky Cemetery Records, Vol 1, Kentucky Society, DAR, 1960 // "Mary (Boone) Bryan, died and was buried on the farm of her son, Samuel, in 1819, but in 1930, some descendants removed her remains to Oakland Cemetery and placed a bronze plaque on her stone): "Removed from farm, erected by grateful descendants. Mary Boone Bryan, wife of Captain Wm Bryan and sister of Col. Daniel Boone, 1736-1819" Information source added by Kimberley Phillips 4-6-2021

A second marriage (to General Smith) and a note that Mary died at her stepson's home in Kentucky (other sources say she died in Rowan County, North Carolina). ^[7]

b 14 November 1736 Exeter, Berks County, Pennsylvania d 6 July 1819 Ravens Creek, Harrison County, Kentucky at the home of her stepson John SMITH. Mary m 1 William Morgan BRYAN, Capt b 7 March 1773 Orange County, Virginia d 30 May 1780 Bryan Station, Fayette County, Kentucky On 19 September 1818 in Pendleton County, Kentucky, Mary married 2 General Charles SMITH, Jr b 15 April 1735 of Harrison County, Kentucky d 26 October 1821 Harrison County, Kentucky. This was marriage 3 for General Charles SMITH

Sources

• Notable Southern Families, Volume II, Compiled by Zella Armstrong, Member of the Tennessee Historical Commission. Published December 1942 by the Lookout Publishing Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee.^[8]
• Boone Association
• Find A Grave: Memorial #7712683
• "Bryan Wills and Deeds With Genealogical Notes" by Lindsay M. Brien in Dayton, Ohio.
• Husband's DAR record
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Online publication - Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived Note: APID: 1,7836::0
• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls Note: APID: 1,2204::0
• Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Note: APID: 1,4725::0
• Mary Boone Bryan [2]

1. ↑ recorded in Exeter MM records as November 3, 1736 (old style)
2. ↑ from her father's biography, apparently from "Society of Colonial Wars"
3. ↑ sources differ on year; Notable Southern Families says: "[About 1750] Squire Boone moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, and became a near neighbor [to the Bryans]. Here Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan were married in 1755 and William Bryan and Mary Boone the same year."
4. ↑ corrected scanning error from "Ghinn"
5. ↑ Listing of children in biography and 2nd marriage information from Notable Southern Families, Volume II.
6. ↑ location in data above - that she died in her stepson John Smith's Kentucky home - is from Boone-875, which seems more likely, as she is buried in Kentucky.
7. ↑ SPRAKER p 65-67 details and ROCKENFIELD p444-445 details
8. ↑ Although most information in this seemingly reliable source matches other sources concerning Daniel Boone's family, it does clearly state that Daniel's wife Rebecca was Morgan's daughter, not granddaughter (which she is according to the Boone Association Timeline).