Western NC Genealogy Resource Center for Cherokee County -- Bryson Family Cemetery

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Bryson Family Cemetery

My thanks to Scott Arwood for providing this data.

Bryson Family Cemetery, Joe Brown Highway, Unaka, Cherokee County, North Carolina.

There are fourteen readable grave markers in the Bryson Cemetery. There is one marker that probably could be read with a rubbing, but I did not have the materials at the time of this survey. There are at least ten field stones and another sunken area with no stones.

Below the survey is some genealogical information connecting those persons listed. Two Brysons married Kilbys and I do not which was the mother of Cleve and Sam Kilby. If anyone knows or knows who else is buried in the cemetery, I would like to hear from you.

Scott Arwood (great great grandson of Samuel Bryson)

Name	Born	Died	Other	Comments
Samuel Bryson	12/23/1823	3/17/1908
Mary Bryson	5/19/1837	3/24/1927		nee Hall
Margaret Roberts	4/15/1867	4/19/1952		nee Bryson
B.F. Roberts		10/12/1910	Age 52 years
Ida Bryson	7/4/1876	8/28/1988
James Bryson	8/10/1878	8/11/1953		James Park Bryson
Malissie J. Kilby	5/25/1859	4/2/1914	wife of SL Kilby	Malissa Jane Bryson
Wesley Roberts	11/6/1886	5/2/1906
Rev. Jim Roberts	3/20/1902	7/30/1956	Father
Margie Ann Roberts	4/14/1953	4/14/1953		daughter of Jim Roberts
Robert Powell	1/15/1897	10/1/1899	son of Mr and Mrs JB Powell
Infant Bryson			dau of Albert and Rachel Bryson
Sam W. Kilby	12/28/1884	12/16/1936		Son of Martha Ann Bryson Kilby or Malissa Jane Bryson Kilby
Cleve Kilby	12/14/1889	12/12/1968		"

1. SAMUEL F. BRYSON was born December 23, 1823 in Haywood Co, NC, and died March 17, 1908 in Cherokee Co, NC. He married MARY HALL 1850-1856 in Cherokee Co, NC, daughter of John Hall and Eliza.

Children of Samuel Bryson and Mary Hall are:

i. ELIZABETH C⁶ BRYSON, b. 1854-1855, Cherokee Co, NC

ii. MARTHA ANN BRYSON, b. May 15, 1857, Cherokee Co, NC; m. ROBERT PIERCE KILBY, January 09, 1879, Cherokee Co, NC.

iii. MALISSA JANE BRYSON, b. May 25, 1859, Cherokee Co, NC; d. April 02, 1914, Cherokee Co, NC; m. SAMUEL L KILBY, November 11, 1881, Cherokee Co, NC.

iv. JOHN SAMUEL BRYSON, b. January 01, 1860, Cherokee Co, NC; d. January 13, 1924; m. FLORENCE ROBERTS, March 20, 1886, Cherokee Co, NC.

v. RACHEL C BRYSON, b. 1861-1862, Cherokee Co, NC; m. ROBERT MARTIN, January 15, 1880, Cherokee Co, NC.

vi. MARGARET E. "MAGGA" BRYSON, b. April 15, 1867, Cherokee Co, NC; d. April 19, 1952, Cherokee Co, NC.

vii. GEORGE BRYSON, b. December 1869, Cherokee Co, NC.

viii. ALBERT S BRYSON, b. 1870, Cherokee Co, NC; m. RACHEL JANE EVANS, February 28, 1895, Cherokee Co, NC.

ix. SARAH VINETTA BRYSON, b. 1873-1874, Cherokee Co, NC.

x. IDA ELLEN BRYSON, b. July 04, 1876, Cherokee Co, NC; d. August 28, 1988, Cherokee Co, NC.

xi. JAMES PARK BRYSON, b. August 10, 1878, Cherokee Co, NC; d. August 11, 1953, Cherokee Co, NC.

xii. WILLIAM WHITCOMB BRYSON, b. May 1880, Cherokee Co, NC.

Generation No. 2

2. ELIZABETH C⁶ BRYSON was born 1854-1855 in Cherokee Co, NC. She married JOHN B POWELL February 06, 1879 in Cherokee Co, NC.

Child of Elizabeth Bryson and John Powell is:

i. ROBERT⁷ POWELL, b. January 15, 1897, Cherokee Co, NC; d. October 01, 1899, Cherokee Co, NC.

3. MARGARET E. "MAGGA"⁶ BRYSON was born April 15, 1867 in Cherokee Co, NC, and died April 19, 1952 in Cherokee Co, NC. She married BENJAMIN FRANKLIN "TALL" ROBERTS August 29, 1886 in Cherokee Co, NC, son of Reason Roberts and Mary Allen.

Children of Margaret Bryson and Benjamin Roberts are:

i. JOHN WESLEY⁷ ROBERTS, b. November 06, 1886, Cherokee Co, NC; d. May 02, 1906, Cherokee Co, NC.

ii. GEORGE ROBERTS, b. July 15, 1887, Cherokee Co, NC; d. 1966, Cherokee Co, NC.

iii. FRANK ROBERTS, b. September 1892.

iv. FRED ROBERTS, b. February 1896.

v. MARY M ROBERTS, b. March 1898.

vi. JAMES "JIM" ROBERTS, b. March 20, 1902, Cherokee Co, NC; d. July 30, 1956, Cherokee Co, NC.

vii. SUE ROBERTS, b. Aft 1900.

viii. WILLIAM MARION ROBERTS, b. August 14, 1909, Cherokee Co, NC; d. September 19, 1988, Loudon Co, TN.

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