John W. Bryant
John W. Bryant was born on May 18, 1846, in Pennsylvania. He served as a corporal in Company G of the 12th United States Infantry during the Civil War.
He married Mary Belle Hiser around 1870, and they had at least six children: Ella, born around 1870; William, born around 1872; Emma, born around 1874; Charles, born around 1876; Josie, born around 1879; and Alice, born around 1885. They lived in Canaan, Ohio, and Bryant worked as a farmer. By 1870, he owned $300 of personal property. They moved to Congress, Ohio, in the 1870s, and he worked as an auctioneer there. They moved to Wooster, Ohio, in the 1880s. He applied for a federal pension in January 1890 and eventually secured one.
In the early 1900s, he supported reconciliation between former Union and Confederate soldiers. He wrote that “I Cirtainly Admire a true soldier without Regard to whitch Side He fought on…The qustion Should never be raised as to whitch Side tha fought on. the only qustion I would ask ‘did you do your duety.’” His wife died in 1912. By 1920, he was living in his daughter Alice’s household in Wooster. He died of “old age” in Akron, Ohio, on March 16, 1931.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (2474) | Bryant, John W. | 1846-05-18 | 1931-03-16 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 2
People - Records: 1
- (2474) Bryant, John W. is the [friend of] (2430) Hopkins, Luther Wesley
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (177) [enlisted] [G] ~ 12th United States Infantry
SOURCES
1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Ohio Soldiers Grave Registration Cards, 1804-1958, available from Ancestry.com; General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, available from Ancestry.com; John W. Bryant to Luther W. Hopkins, 10 February 1909, DL0907.014, Nau Collection
