In a message dated 6/29/2005 8:06:51 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Subj: RE: [ARBENTON] Smith/Luke/Budd/ Martin reasearch > Date: 6/29/2005 8:06:51 AM Central Daylight Time > From: [email protected] > Reply-to: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent from the Internet > > > > Would you have a date of birth for Mildred Bryan/Wear. This just may be > what I am looking for as Bessie had a sister named Mamie and her only > daught's name was Mildred. > > Sue > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 9:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ARBENTON] Smith/Luke/Budd/ Martin reasearch > > > You are so welcome. I will send you some information now on the Bryan's and > McClures as they relate to my mother's family that I am glad to share with > you. I hope you find there is a connection. > > The Bryans (Charles and Mildred ) raised my grandmother, Ruth Elizabeth > Hawkins, after her mother, Sarah Clementine (Lasiter) Hawkins died, when my > grandmother Ruth was an infant. > > The Bryans raised my grandmother Ruth as foster parents and the McClures > raised my mother as a foster child when my grandmother Ruth had twins after > having > my mother and then had another set of twins several years later. The > connection to the Bryans was that my great grandfather (Dr. Alexander > Stephens > Hawkins) was married to their daughter Mary Bryan before he married my > grandmother's > mother, Sarah Clementine Lasiter. Sarah C. Lasiter's father was Wm. Lasiter > and her mother was Susannah Mariah > (Rogers) Lasiter. Susanna Mariah Rogers' parents were Dean Rogers and > Purity > (Davidson) Rogers. * See my "I need help" on the ARBenton-L rootsweb page > for more Davidson, Rogers, Martin information. > > Mrs. McClure was the sister of Mary (Mammie) Bryan and the daughter of > Mildred Bryan who was my Grandmother's foster mother. The McClures had no > children > of their own. > > As you can see it all turns into a family matter over generations with no > one > being blood kin but Mary (Mammie) Bryan and her Mother, Mildred Bryan and > Mrs. W.D. McClure's > who was also Mildred Bryan's daughter. My mother call Mrs. McClure Aunt > Toddy. I do not have a real first name for her. > > I believe Mildred Bryan was a Wear before she married Charles Bryan. They > lived first in Cassville, Barry Co., MO. Then Claremore, Coo Coos Wee Coo > District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory or what is now Claremore, Rogers > County, OK. > > I have so very old books that were my grandmother's that my mother had that > I > ended up getting when my parents died. Some of these I gave to my brother > who was named after the families, Bryan McClure Kinney. Three last names. > > I told you this complicated. > > Ruth > > > I have found the grave (online at OKRogers Rootsweb.com Oaklawn Cemetery) of > Charles S Bryan but have not found that of Mildred (Wear) Bryan. I did find > this information on the family which should help you decide if they are > among the Wear family which you have an interest. > Oklahoma History 1909 Vol. 1 > DR. W. W. BRYAN, a prosperous dentist of Claremore, Rogers county, and influential in its public affairs, is also a farmer and a breeder of standard roadsters. He was born at Otterville, Missouri, and various members of his family have been leaders in the governmental affairs of that state. Hon. John H. Bryan, of Rolla, North Carolina, his grandfather, was a representative to Congress of North Carolina during the ante-bellum period and was one of the pioneers in influence and active affairs of state. The father, Hon. Charles S. Bryan, of Cassville, Missouri, has filled nearly all offices of the Barry county government and has also been the representative of his district in the state legislature. The mother (formerly Miss Mildred Wear) is of a prominent Missouri family, daughter of a cotton broker of Memphis, Tennessee, who became a merchant of Otterville, Missouri. Dr. Bryan obtained his early education in the public schools of the above named town, where he was born September 7, 1868. He also pursued a course in the business college at Springfield, Missouri, and not long after its completion commenced the study of dentistry. In 1893 he graduated from the Western Dental College of Kansas City, Missouri, with his degree of D. D. S., and commenced the practice of his profession at Cassville, Missouri. Dr. Bryan located at Claremore as its pioneer dentist, arriving on the scene in time to secure office rooms in the first brick structure of the city. He also arrived in time to become thoroughly identified with the development of the community in all its affairs, having served both as mayor of the city and as a member of its aldermanic board. He is a director of the Bank of Claremore, and, as an index to his professional standing, holds the presidency of the State Board of Dental Examiners, under appointment of Governor C. N. Haskell. As a recreation the Doctor indulges in agriculture, and, as a combination of country and urban surroundings, his homestead is ideal in its improvements and appointments. He is an enthusiast on the subject of standard and high-grade roadsters, and has in his stables some fine specimens of trotters. On August 12, 1892, Dr. Bryan was united in marriage at Pryor Creek, Indian Territory, to Miss Rachael B. Mayes, daughter of William H. Mayes, and niece to Joel B. Mayes, ex-chief of the Cherokees, both men prominent in the affairs of the Cherokee Indian Nation. The two children born of this union are Joseph Lucullus and Mamie Alexander Bryan.