Fifth Generation


138. Allen Dennis Bryan3,20,52,172,179,180. Birth: 20 January 1836, McMinn County, Tennessee.180

Census: 1840, McMinn County, Tennessee, Age 00-04, enumerated household of his brother James C. (Jim) Bryan.

Census: 1850, McMinn County, Tennessee, Allen 13 m w TN attended school, enumerated in the home of his brother Peter Lenoir Bryan.

Residence: 1855, Tennessee.180 In 1855, when Allen Bryan was nineteen years old, attempts were being made to obtain "bounty land" for him as a minor heir of a veteran of the War of 1812.

Census: 1860, Wise County, Texas, Wise County, Texas, 26 Jun 1860, Decatur PO; page 323a, dwelling number 256, family number 258; Bryan Allen 23 m w stock raiser $80/$950 TN; Casander 20 f w TN; Mollie 3 f w TN.

Death: 22 February 1863, age 27, Camp Douglas, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.180 He died as a Civil War prisoner. On 11 January 1863, he was captured at Arkansas Post, on the Arkansas River at what is known as Little Rock, Arkansas. He was transferred to Camp Douglas near Chicago, Illinois where he died in February 1863. His wife married second John Wasson.

Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Cook County, Illinois.180

Allen Dennis Bryan and Cassandra Frances (Cassie) Damron Marriage: 19 December 1855, Jefferson County, Tennessee.180,181

Cassandra Frances (Cassie) Damron3,179,182. Birth: 3 July 1839, Tennessee.

Census: 1850, Jefferson County, Tennessee, Damron Casandra 12 f w TN attended school, enumerated household of Jonathan Nelson Newman.

Census: 1860, Wise County, Texas, Casander 20 f w TN.

Census: 1870, Denton County, Texas, Casander 30 f w keeping house TN.

Census: 1880, Wise County, Texas. Cassander F. 40 wife female married white, keeping house TN VA VA.

Death: May 1922, age 82, Decatur, Wise County, Texas.

An IGI record lists her name as Damson.

Allen Dennis Bryan-560 and Cassandra Frances (Cassie) Damron-564 had the following children:

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Mary Catherine (Mollie) Bryan-1596.

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Charles William Brady Bryan-716.

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Julia Bryan-715.