NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. NOTE: Several of these biographies shown the county name as Garrett County which I assume was how the individual (or editor) heard Garrard. Their spelling will be shown. 11465 GARRARD CO – SIMEON A. BRYANT – Bryant, Crow 11465 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 842. Simeon A. Bryant. The subject of this sketch is a native of Kentucky, born in Garrett County June 21, 1828. When but two years old his parents left Kentucky and settled in Lincoln county, Missouri. In 1837 they left Lincoln county and located in Pike, where Mr. Bryant was reared and educated. He was married November 14, 1862, to Miss Pet Crow, daughter of John Crow, deceased, one of the early pioneers of the county, an outline of whose life is to be found among the biographies of this township. In 1855 our subject removed to the town of Ashley, where for about eight years he followed the avocation of a merchant. He returned to his farm in 1863, and has since continued to reside there. His farm is situated two and a half miles from Ashley, and contains 272 acres of rich and well improved land which yields annually a rich return for the labor bestowed upon it. Mr. Bryant is a zealous friend of the cause of education and to advance this interest in the community where he lives he several years since, in company with his brother Walter, started a private school of a high grade at his own residence. The school has proved a great success and it may be the initiation of other enterprises of like character and advantage. Mr. Bryant is a member of the Christian Church, an elder in the same, and a liberal subscriber to every worthy demand of his church; he is also a member of the Ashley Lodge No. 75. A. F. & A. M. He is well known all over Pike county, and is both respected and honored for his uprightness of character and real moral worth. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx