Granddaddy Parker
George Parker Bryan
Parents: William Virgil Bryan and Vinnie
Leal
Sirmons
Children: George Parker, Clio (Clyde), Janie, Fannie, Maxie, Julian,
Morris, Ivey, Albert, Ben, Alton
Ma Hattie
Hattie Pearl Horne Bryan
Parents: Robert Greenberry Horne and
Sallie Edge
Children: Olen Bertis, Hattie Pearl, Theo Delmar
12-8-1901 William Virgil Bryant and Vinnie Leal Sirmons marry
in Dodge County
1911 - Robert Greenberry Horne marries Sallie Lou Viola Edge
9-27-1911 - George Parker Bryan born
4-9-1916 - Hattie Horne born
1-25-1919 - Hattie's Mother, Sallie Edge dies of
Influenza in Laurens County
(raised by Uncle Johnny Lee Horne and Aunt Gussie Kilgore Horne)
Parker Bryan was raised at Buckhorn School and Buckhorn Methodist Church
1st home was on dirt road past Buckhorn
7-17-1933 Parker marries Hattie Horne
went to Dudley (Rebe?) to be married
married in front of preacher's (______ English) house in a buggy
Witnesses Irene Sellars, Morris English
Parker borrowed 50 cent from Morris English for the license
lived in a little wood house
between Jimmy Collins house now and J T Mccloud's house
between Rufus Mccloud and B Collins then
4-24-1935
Robbie Nell Bryan born
9-15-1938
Robert Bryan born
1938 - moved to Mr. Hudson's Place, between Rentz and Cadwell
(across from where Taylor's Store is now)
attending Snow Hill Baptist Church
1939-1945 World War 2
Aunt Janie works in Macon making ammunition
Albert Bryant in the Army
Morris Bryant in the Army
1940 - Robbie Nell starts school
2-16-1940 - William Virgil Bryant died
1941 - living at Love Mullis Place
(a house on the Dexter side of Rentz)
(1st house we had with electricity)
Moved into Log House
Parker Bryan working at Naval Hospital
(the incinerator stack)
9-27-1945 Randel Bryan born
(Parker Bryan's birthday also)
moved to Mr. Roy Malone's Father's Place
from Dexter toward Mt Carmel on left
1946? - Robbie Nell attending Dexter School
had a radio - listen to Tom Mix and the Lone Ranger
batteries were carbon cylinders the size of a roll of quarters, had white powder
around them
Parker only listen to grand ole opry on Saturday night
then turned off to save battery
Uncle Morris home from war
12-28-1946 Morris Bryant marries Irene Dillard
(live with Vinnie Sirmons Bryant)
past Billy Bacons now, close to Calvin Bryan's now on top of hill
1947 - moved to Mr Ben Hudson's Place
(1 mile down the road from where Taylor's Store is today)
moving picture show in Cadwell
circus in Rentz
8-17-1947 Reda Bryan born
Lived at Malone's Place (across from Horace Stripling)
(Randel Bryan loved the biscuits from Lena Stripling)
close to Mt. Carmel
across from church lived the Striplings
had a cedar tree, Randel lost a Lone Ranger Silver Bullet in
the tree
twilling chain
Walk to the crossroad for rolling store
George Witherington had an old school bus turned into a store
Randel had a dime to buy a can of mackerel
had a drink box with ice, coke, nehi , rc was a nickel, pop cola 3 cents
Parker dug fatlighter stumps for 15 cent a stump for Roy Malone
(...1948...)Attending Mt. Carmel Baptist
(Randel at 3 years old falls asleep on front pew)
1948? - moved to red house (close to Buckhorn)
by Bill Bacon's house at crossroads, with oak tree
next door to Vinnie Sirmons Bryant
(later owned by Jack Bryant)
(later during depression bought by Dr. Taylor paid off note $300)
date ?Willie and Jack were at red house
backdoor and front door, front porch and back porch
ball of fire went though the front door and out back
7-2-1949
Robbie Nell marries Calvin Fordham
move into Malone's house
1950?
Moved back to house in front of Mt Carmel
Malone's house across from the Striplings
Going to Mt Carmel Church
Moved to Stripling House close to Dexter
(above Mt Carmel and Tom Butler)
Randel built snowman on front porch, waved to kids on bus to see
12-24-1950 Renny Bryan born at Claxton Laurens Hospital
(only child in the family born in a hospital)
there was a heavy snow
Calvin and Robbie Nell move to Rentz
Moved to house close to Tom Butler, past Mt Carmel road at
crossroad
old house with porch, oak tree
close to race track now
with a beehive
corn field
flower pit in yard
Randel tricked Reda to fall into pit
Randel hit Robert in head with magnet
bon fire at Christmas
Moved to Eubergene Ubergene Nickelson's farm
His daddy was Clayton Nickelson
Randel cut toe off with hole diggers
Robert climbing pine sapling, it broke, like to have killed him, he lay in bed
for days
Robert and Randel had room together, Hen laid egg in their bed, then died
had bee hive there
had electricity, electric stove
had running water outside at a faucet from the Nickelsons
Clayton paid Parker $25 per week to work the land
Randel would play Sorry with Mrs. Nickelson (Imagene?)
Clayton and Parker had argument
Blue Loopin was planted for fertilizer
Robert made 110 bushels on that land on an acre (Dexter High School)
he won $100 from school, county or state record
Clayton wanted half the money
Moved to Morris Browning's Place, Rentz
Near 5 points
built over an old cemetery
worked for Morris Browning to gather crops until school started
black lime sink, white lime sink fishing
Calvin and Robbie Nell lived on the Register's Place
Moved to Rentz?, near Robbie Nell
(worked for Mr. Register?)
Moved to Delacy Lord's place (lived there twice)
near the creek
(near Dexter, for Robert and family to go to school)
Delacy was very strict on his kids
Moved to Dr. Barron's Place
He lived in Rentz
He bought a lot of land during the Depression
close to Mark Wood's house now
kitchen was separate and used as Randel's bedroom
6-29-1957
Robert Bryan marries Ruby Dykes
moved into the kitchen at Barron's Place for a few months
Robert worked at shirt factory in Dublin
Moved to Delacy Lord's place
this house had running water to back porch
Hattie worked for the Lord's albatory
by Rocky Creek
8-1-1957
Vinnie Sirmons Bryant died suddenly
(Parker very sick, couldn't go to the funeral)
put on a diet of rice and meat bones by Dr. Covey
drink a glass of beer a day, bought from beer joint on Dexter curves
the wage was $3 per day working in field
Randel made $2.50 picking up workers
Moved to red house for 1-2 years
Parker worked Jim Dyke's land
15 acre cotton allotment
Hattie worked at Shirt Factory in Cochran
Moved to Alcorn, Argene Dominy House
Argene was the road commissioner for Laurens County
1963
Randel graduates
7-4-1965
Randel Bryan marries Cynthia Lord
Moved to the Lord green house
12-15-1966
Gussie Kilgore Horne died
9-18-1967
Reda Bryan marries Randall Martin
3-6-1968
Johnny Lee Horne died
3-23-1971
Renny Bryan marries Philip Lord
Hattie and Parker buy a house in Dexter $2,800 from the
William's
Reda put siding on the house
(the old telephone relay house)
7-1983 - 50th Wedding Anniversary at Buckhorn Methodist (from
program)
Pastor Floyd Mitchell
Prelude - Mrs. Patsy Dixon
Lighting of Candles - Jody Martin, Spencer Bryan
Welcome - Floyd Mitchell
Song - Cynthia Bryan
Repeating of Vows - Hattie Bryan, Parker Bryan
Benediction - Floyd Mitchell
Registration - Kay Ricks
Hostess - Wanda Howard, Janie Brady, Latha Lord
1-1994 Parker Bryan died (82 years old)
1-29-1994 Vernon Lee Horne died
11-19-1996 - Hattie Bryan died (80 years old)
8-3-1998 Bud Horne died
Miscellaneous
Granddaddy helped build the brick smoke stack (incinerator) at the
Dublin Veterans Hospital