| Home Surname List Name Index Sources | Fifth Generation133. Mary J. Bryan3,20,52,55. Birth: 20 September 1824, Sevier County, Tennessee. Census: 1840, McMinn County, Tennessee, Age 15-19, enumerated household of her brother James C. (Jim) Bryan. Census: 1850, McMinn County, Tennessee, Mary 26 f w TN. Mary J. Bryan and Benjamin T. (Ben) Wasson Marriage: 10 June 1845, McMinn County, Tennessee.20 Benjamin T. (Ben) Wasson3,52,55,177. Birth: 1822, Tennessee. Census: 1850, McMinn County, Tennessee, 23rd Subdivision, McMinn County, Tennessee, 19 Sep 1850; p.284b, dwelling number 1281, family number 864; Wasen Ben 28 m w farmer $4100 TN; Mary 26 f w TN; John 6 m w TN; Ludia 4 f w TN; Lucy 2 f w TN The following is from Elizabeth Cate Manly: Benjamin Wasson, b. 1822, is believed by Mr. Owen Wasson, of Dayton, to be the son of Edward Wasson, who m. Sarah Chapman, and lived in Rhea Springs, Rhea Co. The Wassons were French Huguenots and some of them are still prominent Rhea Co. citizens. (Trying to contact Mary's and Benjamin's descendants, I called a Benjamin Wasson, listed in the Spring City, Tn. telephone directory in 1969. He courteously told me he was a black man! Elizabeth Cate Manly) Mary J. Bryan-552 and Benjamin T. (Ben) Wasson-561 had the following children:
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