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Individual:
1812 - war veteran
1850 - Census, TX, Port Bolivar, Galveston Co.
Not listed in any LA census, only Christopher
BEF 1789 - VA to KY
1789-1801 - KY to MO
1801-1803 - MO to New Orleans
1830-1832 - to Liberty Co TX with kids and some bros, then Beaumont. Daniel stayed
George O'Bryan , Ruth O'Bryan's great-grandfather, was born in 1789 at Fincastle, Greebriar County, West Virginia. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, serving as a private in "Capt. Shadrach Porter's Co. of Infantry, 15th Reg't Louisiana Mil," for which he was paid $18.58 for two months service. George was married three times. He married Eleanor Merriman onSept. 14, 1814 in Vermilion Parish, LA , where they lived until her death in 1828. In Louisiana, he and Robert Perry shared in various land and slave auctions. Moving to Texas, George and his children settled on the Neches River at what is now Beaumont, TX. His son Daniel O'Bryan remained in Louisiana, and George returned there in 1832 to marry Eliza Ann Bryan. But she died in 1833, shortly after the birth of their only son, George Washington Bryan.
The town of Beaumont was laid out in 1837, and three years later, in 1840, George O'Bryan married Nancy Millard there. That same year, with S.H. Millard, he bought the two-story Millard store on Austin and Water streets in Beaumont near the wharfs of the Neches River and present-day Riverside Drive. His store in Beaumont became known as Cave Johnson's tavern after he sold it on June 11, 1853 to his son George Washington Bryan and Cave Johnson, who nearby planted what is now the huge "O'Bryan Oak." In 1846, George and his wife Nancy moved to Pt. Bolivar, across from Galveston, where the 1850 Census found him. Ever since the days of Jean Lafitte, the Bolivar Peninsula had been an entry point for smuggling cargo and illegal slaves into the United States, since the U.S. Constitution forbade the importation of more slaves. George's occupation was more innocent. He owned and operated the Galveston and Sabine Bay Stage, transporting cattle, crops, coffee and mail through territory threatened by predatory bands in the early days of Texas.
George died about 1858 in Galveston or Chambers County. His 1858 will stipulates that after his death "the negroes are to be hired out and the property rented" and bequeaths his entire estate to his third wife Nancy Millard and their small children, saying, " I love all my children... (but) my other children are all old enough and competent to support and take care of themselves." He signed that January will with an X, but signed a codicil in February 1858, weakly, "Geo. O Brien."
Virginia O'Bryan says born in Fincastle, Greenbriar County, WV.
Others say Lexington (Bryan's Station) KY.
1812 - war veteran
1850 - Census, TX, Port Bolivar, Galveston Co.
BEF 1789 - VA to KY
1789-1801 - KY to MO
1801-1803 - MO to New Orleans
1830-1832 - to Liberty Co TX with kids and some bros, then Beaumont.
Daniel stayed in LA.
!BIRTH: LDS International Genealogical Index says Fayette. His siblings
are
listed in the 1971 O'Bryan Family Reunion notes.
!DEATH: Though one source says 1856, he signed the will Jan. 1858.
!MARRIAGE: Old Corner, newspaper clipping from Beaumont or Galveston
!MARRIAGE: Frances Evelyn Bryan Crock DAR 520770 says Feb. 2. Other source
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