| Home Surname List Name Index Sources | Fourth Generation68. Sarah Mariah (Sallie) Bryan25,28. Birth: 30 December 1815, Sevier County, Tennessee. Census: 1830, Sevier County, Tennessee, Age 15-19, enumerated Household of her father Allen S. Bryan Sr. Census: 1840, Blount County, Tennessee, Age 20-29, enumerated Household of her husband John Fouche Henry. Census: 1850, Knox County, Tennessee, Sarah M. 37 f w TN. She appeared in the settlement of in October 1867 . Sarah Mariah Henry was named in the settlement of her father's estate Oct. 1867. Death: 17 January 1905, age 89, Louisville, Blount County, Tennessee. Burial: about 19 January 1905, Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.68 Sarah Mariah (Sallie) Bryan and John Fouche Henry Marriage: 8 September 1831, Sevier County, Tennessee.69 They left the Louisville area to go to Knoxville when their Elizabeth was ready for school. They moved back to Louisville later in life after he retired from the legislature. Goodspeed's History Published 1887. Mrs. S. M. Henry, widow of the late J. F. Henry, was born in 1813 in Sevier County, Tenn., where she was reared. She is the second of nine children of Allen and Elizabeth (McSpadden) Bryan. Her father had five children by a former wife, Elizabeth Hubbard. He represented Sevier County several years, and was a prominent farmer and citizen. Our subject's mother was born of Irish stock, while her husband had Scotch blood mixed with the same origin. Mrs. Henry was married in 1831. Mr. Henry was a son of Samuel and Elizabeth Henry, the former a prominent farmer and citizen of Blount County, born in Virginia, but a resident of Tennessee since childhood. Both were of Irish origin. Our subject's husband was a self-made man, educated by reading and study at home. He began for himself when of age, and at twenty-two married, and engaged at Louisville in merchandising for seventeen years. He then purchased and moved to a farm north of Knoxville, and lived there five years, when he moved back to Mrs. Henry's present home. He was State senator from the Blount County District from 1843 to 1850, and from the Knox County District from 1851 to 1852. He was candidate for re-election when sickness compelled him to resign. He made a splendid record as president of the Senate, one term, and was reported to be a natural politician and one of the best financiers in Tennessee, as was evidenced by his ease in gaining wealth and his invariable success. He was a remarkable reader and close student. Their only child is Elizabeth J., formerly Mrs. Jackson, but after her husband's death, about 1862, became Mrs. Dr. J. A. Bond. Mrs. Henry, now seventy-three years old, has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, since her sixteenth year. Her husband was a professed Christian, but a member of no denomination. He died October 26, 1884. He was an able major in the State militia for many years. John Fouche Henry28,68,69, son of Samuel Henry and Elizabeth Garner,. Birth: 15 April 1808,. Census: 1840, Blount County, Tennessee, p.97, line 10, 1840, Blount County, Tennessee 00-04 0 0 1836-1840 Death: 26 October 1884, age 76,. Burial: about 27 October 1884, Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee. He was active in politics and was a State Senator from Blount County for several years... "John F. had built a handsome spacious house known as "South Place" at Louisville, Tennessee. John F. Henry is mentioned as an "outspoken Unionist in the secession battle in Tennessee. ) East Tennessee and Blount County in particular favored the Union cause. ( Dunn. Cade's Cove: The Life and Death of A Southern Appalachian Community, p 126-27.) Sarah Mariah (Sallie) Bryan-9551 and John Fouche Henry-9636 had the following children:
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