Victor Silas Bryant (1898 - 1980)

Born 29 Sep 1898 in Durham, Durham, North Carolina, USA

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Died 17 Sep 1980 at age 81 in Durham, Durham, North Carolina, USA

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Victor Bryant was born in Durham, North Carolina on 29 September 1898. In 1918, he was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when he enrolled in Company D of the Student Army Corps on 1 October 1918. He saw no active duty, however, and was honorably discharged on 10 December 1918.^[1]

On 26 January 1921, when he was 22 years old, he married Elizabeth Scales in Guilford County, North Carolina. They were married by Rev Charles F Myers, and witnesses were G Allen Mesane and J S Scales.^[2] Their marriage application stated that he was age 22, the son of Victor S Bryant (deceased) and Matilda H Bryant (living), and that she was age 23, the daughter of A M Scales (living) and Elizabeth T Scales (deceased).^[3]

... He passed away in 1980. ^[4]

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Victor Bryant was a very distinguished man, an excellent attorney in Durham, who among other things had the unusual distinction of being the legal representation for North Carolina Mutual, the oldest Black life insurance company in the country. For those days, he was a man quite ahead of his time. He also served in the NC legislature, as had his father before him (Victor Silas Bryant Sr., who was also an attorney). He was a trustee of the University of North Carolina and as such, helped defeat the notorious Speaker Ban Law.

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1. ↑ "North Carolina, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9KW-VNDS?cc=2568864&wc=Q6HB-4HP%3A1590122304%2C1590122413 : accessed 20 June 2022), Army and Marine Corps > Bryant, Brodie to Byerly, William O > image 139 of 1451; citing The North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
2. ↑ "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91D-D3CF-P?cc=1726957 : 28 November 2018), > image 1 of 1; North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History.
3. ↑ "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4F-6FJV?cc=1726957 : 28 November 2018), > image 1 of 1; North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History.
4. ↑ Entered by Deborah Mackrodt, Sep 14, 2012

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