| Home Surname List Name Index Sources | Sixth Generation393. Sarah Elizabeth (Bettie) Bryan3,20,52,352,353. Birth: 10 October 1849, McMinn County, Tennessee. Census: 1850, McMinn County, Tennessee, Bryant Sarah 1 f w TN. Census: 1860, McMinn County, Tennessee, Sarah E. 10 f w TN attended school. Census: 1870, Bradley County, Tennessee, Sarah E. 21 f w TN. Death: 5 September 1931, age 81, Bradley County, Tennessee.353 Burial: after 5 September 1931, at New Friendship Cemetery Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee. She was Elizabeth Cate Manning's grandmother who inspired Elizabeth Cate Manly's genealogy endeavors. Elizabeth Cate Manly refers to her as BBJ - Bettie Bryan Julian. A treasured piece of writing, saved from a Cleveland paper printed over one hundred years ago, simply says: "Married on the 21st of May, at the close of the commencement exercises of Chatata Seminary, by the Rev. K.C. Atkis, Prof. J.A. Julian to Miss S.E. Ryan, both of this county - May 29, 1874". The family Bible has "in the presence of 1500 witnesses", so it was a big wedding! The wedding attendants included "Cousin Bill" Bryan, Minnie Horton, Alice McFarland, Isham Julian, Sallie Julian, Venie Yearwood, Lena Crockett, Bill Rickett, Watt Cate, Wm. A. Cate, Julia Horton, Lizzie Black. The latter three were still alive in 1930, when BBJ wrote a ltter telling of her wedding. It was deep sorrow to her that her bosom friend, Gussie Bledsoe Parker, could not be an attendant. She was already a widow, Calvin Parker having died of "consumption". In those days married persons did not serve as wedding attendants. Sallie Julian and Alice Bryan, young sisters of the groom and bride, carried lamps. The first home of the Julians, where their son Alaric and their daughter Beulah were born, was a little house across Little Chatata Creek from the Seminary. (No doubt housing was a part of the teachers' stipend.) They then spent a year or two in Sale Creek, Hamilton County, where both taught. Beulah was kept during the day by a Mrs. Patterson, in whose house they had rooms. They then lived at Chatata, where James A. Julian was associated with has brother, Sarah Elizabeth (Bettie) Bryan and James Anderson Julian Marriage: 21 May 1874, Chatata Seminary, Tasso, Bradley County, Tennessee. James Anderson Julian3,352,353, son of Robert Patterson Julian and Rosanna Bond,. Birth: 31 March 1850, Chatata Valley, Bradley County, Tennessee. Census: 1850, Bradley County, Tennessee, James 2/12 m w TN. Death: 12 March 1924, age 73, Bradley County, Tennessee.353 Burial: after 12 March 1924, at New Friendship Cemetery Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee. He was a teacher and a farmer. Sarah Elizabeth (Bettie) Bryan-612 and James Anderson Julian-726 had the following children:
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