Native of the Cherokee Nation.
He was re-interred from the Old City Cemetery.
All the speculation below and I find this at the library.
Springfield Advertiser Book 1844-1850 April 13, 1847.
Bryan, John C [probable John Copeland Bryan] a youth of excellent promise died 11 isnst. at the home of John P Campbell. He had been in this place a short time and leave grieving parents. [Greene Co.]
Next article that I find a bit more. Miscellaneous Records of the Springfield Advertiser, Springfield, MO. Jan. 2, 1847 to April 16, 1849.
Died
At the residence of John P Campbell, on the 11th inst., Mr. John C. Bryan. He was a youth of excellent mind and promising prospects for the future, but Providence, whose ways are inscrutible and whose mandates must be obeyed, saw proper in its wisdom to remove him from amoung us. We yield and truly sympathized with the bereaved parents of the dec'd. He had been in this place but a short time, but had gained the esteem of all his acquaintances.
Now I wonder if this was the reason that John Bryan was in the home of John Polk Campbell, the prominent and of high esteem, society wise...with this young fellow being a son of some lawyer...He was originally interred in the Old Campbell Cemetery, and then moved to Hazelwood after it was declared unsanitary for people to be buried in the city limits.
1847-49 Establishment of several private schools for boys, the Southwestern Missouri High School and the Springfield Academy, and several for girls, Mrs. Merritt's and Miss Anderson's "schools for young ladies," and Miss McDonald's Female Institute
Looking for this young man on ancestry has not shown anything yet. He was born 2 years after the signing of the "Indian Removal Act" The famous Cherokee Trail of Tears started in 1838, this was 6 years after the birth of this young brave. Bodies of the poor souls are scattered all across many states during the time period of the savage driving of the Indians from their ancestral homes. In 1842 there was a Cherokee slave revolt.
There is problems with finding some people in lot 443 that I have listed and taken pictures of the monuments. The cemetery does not have some of these listed. Johns monument was completly underground.
In the 1990's Ozarks Genealogical Society read the Hazelwood Cemetery, and finished with some addtionals up to 2005 added in before printing. This is where I got the information for these people. Some of them you may find the cemetery does not have any record of. Removal of the bodies from the "Old City Cemtery" at Campbell & State North Springfield Cemetery at Campbell & Atlantic and other burial plots were done after an ordinance was passed that declared it was detrimental to the health of inhabitants of the city to bury dead bodies within the limits. March 10, 1888 it passed. Many of the bodies were re-interred in Hazelwood Cemetery.
These stones were read by the Ozarks Genealogical Society and monuments are in lot 443. I have photographed them, and they are preserved on findagrave. Should you call in now, you may hear the office tell you stone/monument only. At this time no paper work indicates some of these were ever moved physcially. Maybe it was just the stones.
Here is the listed folks. Please visit each of these and please leave a flower for them.
From the book page 503
Abernathy, David T 24 Oct. 1833-Oct 1858 [broken stone]
Patterson, Sarah 7 Nov. 1797-Oct 30 1858 Consort of E Patterson
Rose, Nancy 15 Dec 1846 16 Dec 1846 d/o Sarah Ann & J P Rose
Rose, Sarah Ann 3 May 1822-3 Feb 1841 Consort of J P Rose
Trowbridge, Amanda M 20 Feb 1835-20 Dec 1873 w/o G W Trowbridge
Bryan, John C 17 Feb 1832-7 April 1847 Native of the Cherokee Nation
Talford, Rebeca 26 May 1824-21 Sept 1856 b Lo Co Ky
Faulkner, Mary A 21 Jan 1824-25 Jan 1854 Late Consort of R P Faulkner ae 30y 5 da
Orr, Patience Olivia B died 13 Dec 1854 Wife-Mother, w/o Sample Orr ae 31yr 8mo 18da
Gott, Martha E died 23 Sept 1851 d/o R S & N H Gott, ae 20 yr 4mo
Ten more stones buried in ground, overgrown with grass, illegible.
Now what I know the cemetery records show for the lot.
Mary A Late 1/25/1851, stone only
Tincia Oliva no information
Rebecca Tallord 9/30/1856 stone only
Son of Rebeca and J M Bryan / stone only the back side of his stone is what this turns out to have on it.
Amanda M Trowbridge 12/20/1873 stone only
David Abernathy stone only
E P Gott 2/18/1873, 69 Years stone only
Sarah Ann Rose stone only
"can't read stone" is Nancy Rose
And just discovered June 2012, with the using of the air spade on this lot Alexander "Alex" Johnson and his daughter Menerva.
Cemetery personell personally helped, and dug out this monument, it was completly covered there would not be a clue there was a stone there had it not been for the book. I just went in the office told them where he was located, how I knew the information, and where the stone might be found. I would like to acknowledge the office staff was right there taking care of it. You could not ask for a better group of people. They will take the walk with you the extra mile when asked. This same book please note there have been many errors found in it. So please do not think I am saying these are there, or the physical remains are there.
The staff certainly wished the information was in the books, but unable to change, yet they would have liked to know if they were there or if stones only were moved, and it sure would have been nice to have the records or at least some notes if stones were going to be placed.
Wonder if somehow will find he is related to this one:
J. M. BRYAN, Major, Commanding First Cherokee Battalion.
Maybe he was a part of what was called The History of the Great Removal that began after 1838 the Indians were dispatched into camps from Georgia to move westward, about 18,000 that had continued to be removed from their lands. Further figures include about 100, 000 forcefully removed with 20,000 dying during the trip. The broad plains of the new Indian Territory are promised to the tribes as their own land 'as long as the grass grows and the rivers run' and this was the moments/year in history when grass failed to grow and rivers did not run the year of 1907 when the white settlers continued to encroach on Indian lands promised them by the promised agreement. The Great Migration of 1843 eventually known as the Oregon Trail. There was a place called "Winter Quarters" on the west bank of the Missouri. Brigham Young and his followers join the Oregon Trail at the Platte River.
The University in Springfield MO. furnished an air shovel that was used by the cemetery staff and uncovered the huge monument, rather than the stone that was thought to be flat. What a wonderful find.
I joined the Cherokee Gene Newsletter and put this young one out for help. This is one of many answers and suggestions I had received from a great group of folks:
John was not a full-blood, however, but at best just about 1/4 (and that would be if the unknown Crittenden his great grandmother married was a full-blood and that's highly unlikely) and probably less than that, most likely 1/16th. His mother, Rebecca Wright married Joel Mayes Bryan, a white man. Rebecca appears on the Old Settler Roll of 1851 at Delaware Group 6 as Rebecca Bryant so she didn't walk the Trail of Tears, but came west voluntarily. The name Joel M. Bryant appears on B.F. Currey's muster roll of 1838, but it's a bit mystifying. It shows 2 males under age 25 and 1 female. There should have been one male under age 25 unless there was another male child not in Jim's listing, 1 male over 25 (himself) and 3 females under 25 (Rebecca and two daughters). Perhaps Currey did not list the adults and just got the genders mixed up on the children.Some of their children married emigrant Cherokees, so there are some Miller applications that can perhaps shed some light. I do wonder why their son was buried in Greene County, MO. That's not someplace I would look for a Cherokee family, although there were some from among the Old Settlers whose kin included signers and supporters of the Treaty of New Echota who went to live in MO and other places after the assassination of the Ridges and Elias Boudinot. This might have been the case. There was and AM Bryan on the 1840 census in Greene Co that might have been kin or was really J.M. not A.M. There were a number of Old Settler families who did not live within the boundaries of the Cherokee nation in the IT. Freedom Township, Polk County AR (Joel's brother Tarrance is said to have died in Polk County AR) was almost entirely Cherokee from 1850-1860, and some returned there after the
war, some never left. But most of them also maintained homes in the IT. So stranger things have happened then Cherokees in Greene County, MO!
note IT in this case stands for Indian Territory. I had suspected the Joel Bryan connection and please don't think this information is set in stone at this time. As with all family research and papers found, errors are made.
Another one:
I looked up her Bryan names in the Cherokee Roots book I have (Eastern Rolls) & there was a Joel M. Bryan listed in the Emigration Rolls of 1817-1835.
With the use of devining rods it has been determined the physcial remains of those people are there, the gender has also been verified with the use of these rods. Have used these several times by more than one person. The rods have confirmed the gender to match the names on these unearthed monuments.
Edit March 2022:
Hello Judy, I recently came across this April 1862 article written by a newspaper correspondent visiting Springfield. He wrote:
"I visited on the Sabbath day the cemetery located in the southwest portion of the village. Among several tasteful looking monuments... is a beautiful marble cenotaph to the memory of "John C. Bryan, Native of the Cherokee Nation, born February 17th 1832; died April 17th, 1847." On inquiry, I ascertained this young Indian had graduated at an Eastern college, and died here while on his way home."
Since you sponsored his entry, and have done so much good for him and others on Find-A-Grave, I thought you would like to know. Very respectfully, Kip Lindberg∼"John G Bryan, native of Cherokee nation, died 7 Apr 1847, aged 15"
Missouri Miscellany, Vol. IX, pp 91-93; Greene County, MO, Springfield's Pioneer Cemetery (from The Springfield Patriot, Thurs. Aug. 9, 1883)
He was re-interred from the Old City Cemetery.
All the speculation below and I find this at the library.
Springfield Advertiser Book 1844-1850 April 13, 1847.
Bryan, John C [probable John Copeland Bryan] a youth of excellent promise died 11 isnst. at the home of John P Campbell. He had been in this place a short time and leave grieving parents. [Greene Co.]
Next article that I find a bit more. Miscellaneous Records of the Springfield Advertiser, Springfield, MO. Jan. 2, 1847 to April 16, 1849.
Died
At the residence of John P Campbell, on the 11th inst., Mr. John C. Bryan. He was a youth of excellent mind and promising prospects for the future, but Providence, whose ways are inscrutible and whose mandates must be obeyed, saw proper in its wisdom to remove him from amoung us. We yield and truly sympathized with the bereaved parents of the dec'd. He had been in this place but a short time, but had gained the esteem of all his acquaintances.
Now I wonder if this was the reason that John Bryan was in the home of John Polk Campbell, the prominent and of high esteem, society wise...with this young fellow being a son of some lawyer...He was originally interred in the Old Campbell Cemetery, and then moved to Hazelwood after it was declared unsanitary for people to be buried in the city limits.
1847-49 Establishment of several private schools for boys, the Southwestern Missouri High School and the Springfield Academy, and several for girls, Mrs. Merritt's and Miss Anderson's "schools for young ladies," and Miss McDonald's Female Institute
Looking for this young man on ancestry has not shown anything yet. He was born 2 years after the signing of the "Indian Removal Act" The famous Cherokee Trail of Tears started in 1838, this was 6 years after the birth of this young brave. Bodies of the poor souls are scattered all across many states during the time period of the savage driving of the Indians from their ancestral homes. In 1842 there was a Cherokee slave revolt.
There is problems with finding some people in lot 443 that I have listed and taken pictures of the monuments. The cemetery does not have some of these listed. Johns monument was completly underground.
In the 1990's Ozarks Genealogical Society read the Hazelwood Cemetery, and finished with some addtionals up to 2005 added in before printing. This is where I got the information for these people. Some of them you may find the cemetery does not have any record of. Removal of the bodies from the "Old City Cemtery" at Campbell & State North Springfield Cemetery at Campbell & Atlantic and other burial plots were done after an ordinance was passed that declared it was detrimental to the health of inhabitants of the city to bury dead bodies within the limits. March 10, 1888 it passed. Many of the bodies were re-interred in Hazelwood Cemetery.
These stones were read by the Ozarks Genealogical Society and monuments are in lot 443. I have photographed them, and they are preserved on findagrave. Should you call in now, you may hear the office tell you stone/monument only. At this time no paper work indicates some of these were ever moved physcially. Maybe it was just the stones.
Here is the listed folks. Please visit each of these and please leave a flower for them.
From the book page 503
Abernathy, David T 24 Oct. 1833-Oct 1858 [broken stone]
Patterson, Sarah 7 Nov. 1797-Oct 30 1858 Consort of E Patterson
Rose, Nancy 15 Dec 1846 16 Dec 1846 d/o Sarah Ann & J P Rose
Rose, Sarah Ann 3 May 1822-3 Feb 1841 Consort of J P Rose
Trowbridge, Amanda M 20 Feb 1835-20 Dec 1873 w/o G W Trowbridge
Bryan, John C 17 Feb 1832-7 April 1847 Native of the Cherokee Nation
Talford, Rebeca 26 May 1824-21 Sept 1856 b Lo Co Ky
Faulkner, Mary A 21 Jan 1824-25 Jan 1854 Late Consort of R P Faulkner ae 30y 5 da
Orr, Patience Olivia B died 13 Dec 1854 Wife-Mother, w/o Sample Orr ae 31yr 8mo 18da
Gott, Martha E died 23 Sept 1851 d/o R S & N H Gott, ae 20 yr 4mo
Ten more stones buried in ground, overgrown with grass, illegible.
Now what I know the cemetery records show for the lot.
Mary A Late 1/25/1851, stone only
Tincia Oliva no information
Rebecca Tallord 9/30/1856 stone only
Son of Rebeca and J M Bryan / stone only the back side of his stone is what this turns out to have on it.
Amanda M Trowbridge 12/20/1873 stone only
David Abernathy stone only
E P Gott 2/18/1873, 69 Years stone only
Sarah Ann Rose stone only
"can't read stone" is Nancy Rose
And just discovered June 2012, with the using of the air spade on this lot Alexander "Alex" Johnson and his daughter Menerva.
Cemetery personell personally helped, and dug out this monument, it was completly covered there would not be a clue there was a stone there had it not been for the book. I just went in the office told them where he was located, how I knew the information, and where the stone might be found. I would like to acknowledge the office staff was right there taking care of it. You could not ask for a better group of people. They will take the walk with you the extra mile when asked. This same book please note there have been many errors found in it. So please do not think I am saying these are there, or the physical remains are there.
The staff certainly wished the information was in the books, but unable to change, yet they would have liked to know if they were there or if stones only were moved, and it sure would have been nice to have the records or at least some notes if stones were going to be placed.
Wonder if somehow will find he is related to this one:
J. M. BRYAN, Major, Commanding First Cherokee Battalion.
Maybe he was a part of what was called The History of the Great Removal that began after 1838 the Indians were dispatched into camps from Georgia to move westward, about 18,000 that had continued to be removed from their lands. Further figures include about 100, 000 forcefully removed with 20,000 dying during the trip. The broad plains of the new Indian Territory are promised to the tribes as their own land 'as long as the grass grows and the rivers run' and this was the moments/year in history when grass failed to grow and rivers did not run the year of 1907 when the white settlers continued to encroach on Indian lands promised them by the promised agreement. The Great Migration of 1843 eventually known as the Oregon Trail. There was a place called "Winter Quarters" on the west bank of the Missouri. Brigham Young and his followers join the Oregon Trail at the Platte River.
The University in Springfield MO. furnished an air shovel that was used by the cemetery staff and uncovered the huge monument, rather than the stone that was thought to be flat. What a wonderful find.
I joined the Cherokee Gene Newsletter and put this young one out for help. This is one of many answers and suggestions I had received from a great group of folks:
John was not a full-blood, however, but at best just about 1/4 (and that would be if the unknown Crittenden his great grandmother married was a full-blood and that's highly unlikely) and probably less than that, most likely 1/16th. His mother, Rebecca Wright married Joel Mayes Bryan, a white man. Rebecca appears on the Old Settler Roll of 1851 at Delaware Group 6 as Rebecca Bryant so she didn't walk the Trail of Tears, but came west voluntarily. The name Joel M. Bryant appears on B.F. Currey's muster roll of 1838, but it's a bit mystifying. It shows 2 males under age 25 and 1 female. There should have been one male under age 25 unless there was another male child not in Jim's listing, 1 male over 25 (himself) and 3 females under 25 (Rebecca and two daughters). Perhaps Currey did not list the adults and just got the genders mixed up on the children.Some of their children married emigrant Cherokees, so there are some Miller applications that can perhaps shed some light. I do wonder why their son was buried in Greene County, MO. That's not someplace I would look for a Cherokee family, although there were some from among the Old Settlers whose kin included signers and supporters of the Treaty of New Echota who went to live in MO and other places after the assassination of the Ridges and Elias Boudinot. This might have been the case. There was and AM Bryan on the 1840 census in Greene Co that might have been kin or was really J.M. not A.M. There were a number of Old Settler families who did not live within the boundaries of the Cherokee nation in the IT. Freedom Township, Polk County AR (Joel's brother Tarrance is said to have died in Polk County AR) was almost entirely Cherokee from 1850-1860, and some returned there after the
war, some never left. But most of them also maintained homes in the IT. So stranger things have happened then Cherokees in Greene County, MO!
note IT in this case stands for Indian Territory. I had suspected the Joel Bryan connection and please don't think this information is set in stone at this time. As with all family research and papers found, errors are made.
Another one:
I looked up her Bryan names in the Cherokee Roots book I have (Eastern Rolls) & there was a Joel M. Bryan listed in the Emigration Rolls of 1817-1835.
With the use of devining rods it has been determined the physcial remains of those people are there, the gender has also been verified with the use of these rods. Have used these several times by more than one person. The rods have confirmed the gender to match the names on these unearthed monuments.
Edit March 2022:
Hello Judy, I recently came across this April 1862 article written by a newspaper correspondent visiting Springfield. He wrote:
"I visited on the Sabbath day the cemetery located in the southwest portion of the village. Among several tasteful looking monuments... is a beautiful marble cenotaph to the memory of "John C. Bryan, Native of the Cherokee Nation, born February 17th 1832; died April 17th, 1847." On inquiry, I ascertained this young Indian had graduated at an Eastern college, and died here while on his way home."
Since you sponsored his entry, and have done so much good for him and others on Find-A-Grave, I thought you would like to know. Very respectfully, Kip Lindberg∼"John G Bryan, native of Cherokee nation, died 7 Apr 1847, aged 15"
Missouri Miscellany, Vol. IX, pp 91-93; Greene County, MO, Springfield's Pioneer Cemetery (from The Springfield Patriot, Thurs. Aug. 9, 1883)
Native of the Cherokee Nation.
He was re-interred from the Old City Cemetery.
All the speculation below and I find this at the library.
Springfield Advertiser Book 1844-1850 April 13, 1847.
Bryan, John C [probable John Copeland Bryan] a youth of excellent promise died 11 isnst. at the home of John P Campbell. He had been in this place a short time and leave grieving parents. [Greene Co.]
Next article that I find a bit more. Miscellaneous Records of the Springfield Advertiser, Springfield, MO. Jan. 2, 1847 to April 16, 1849.
Died
At the residence of John P Campbell, on the 11th inst., Mr. John C. Bryan. He was a youth of excellent mind and promising prospects for the future, but Providence, whose ways are inscrutible and whose mandates must be obeyed, saw proper in its wisdom to remove him from amoung us. We yield and truly sympathized with the bereaved parents of the dec'd. He had been in this place but a short time, but had gained the esteem of all his acquaintances.
Now I wonder if this was the reason that John Bryan was in the home of John Polk Campbell, the prominent and of high esteem, society wise...with this young fellow being a son of some lawyer...He was originally interred in the Old Campbell Cemetery, and then moved to Hazelwood after it was declared unsanitary for people to be buried in the city limits.
1847-49 Establishment of several private schools for boys, the Southwestern Missouri High School and the Springfield Academy, and several for girls, Mrs. Merritt's and Miss Anderson's "schools for young ladies," and Miss McDonald's Female Institute
Looking for this young man on ancestry has not shown anything yet. He was born 2 years after the signing of the "Indian Removal Act" The famous Cherokee Trail of Tears started in 1838, this was 6 years after the birth of this young brave. Bodies of the poor souls are scattered all across many states during the time period of the savage driving of the Indians from their ancestral homes. In 1842 there was a Cherokee slave revolt.
There is problems with finding some people in lot 443 that I have listed and taken pictures of the monuments. The cemetery does not have some of these listed. Johns monument was completly underground.
In the 1990's Ozarks Genealogical Society read the Hazelwood Cemetery, and finished with some addtionals up to 2005 added in before printing. This is where I got the information for these people. Some of them you may find the cemetery does not have any record of. Removal of the bodies from the "Old City Cemtery" at Campbell & State North Springfield Cemetery at Campbell & Atlantic and other burial plots were done after an ordinance was passed that declared it was detrimental to the health of inhabitants of the city to bury dead bodies within the limits. March 10, 1888 it passed. Many of the bodies were re-interred in Hazelwood Cemetery.
These stones were read by the Ozarks Genealogical Society and monuments are in lot 443. I have photographed them, and they are preserved on findagrave. Should you call in now, you may hear the office tell you stone/monument only. At this time no paper work indicates some of these were ever moved physcially. Maybe it was just the stones.
Here is the listed folks. Please visit each of these and please leave a flower for them.
From the book page 503
Abernathy, David T 24 Oct. 1833-Oct 1858 [broken stone]
Patterson, Sarah 7 Nov. 1797-Oct 30 1858 Consort of E Patterson
Rose, Nancy 15 Dec 1846 16 Dec 1846 d/o Sarah Ann & J P Rose
Rose, Sarah Ann 3 May 1822-3 Feb 1841 Consort of J P Rose
Trowbridge, Amanda M 20 Feb 1835-20 Dec 1873 w/o G W Trowbridge
Bryan, John C 17 Feb 1832-7 April 1847 Native of the Cherokee Nation
Talford, Rebeca 26 May 1824-21 Sept 1856 b Lo Co Ky
Faulkner, Mary A 21 Jan 1824-25 Jan 1854 Late Consort of R P Faulkner ae 30y 5 da
Orr, Patience Olivia B died 13 Dec 1854 Wife-Mother, w/o Sample Orr ae 31yr 8mo 18da
Gott, Martha E died 23 Sept 1851 d/o R S & N H Gott, ae 20 yr 4mo
Ten more stones buried in ground, overgrown with grass, illegible.
Now what I know the cemetery records show for the lot.
Mary A Late 1/25/1851, stone only
Tincia Oliva no information
Rebecca Tallord 9/30/1856 stone only
Son of Rebeca and J M Bryan / stone only the back side of his stone is what this turns out to have on it.
Amanda M Trowbridge 12/20/1873 stone only
David Abernathy stone only
E P Gott 2/18/1873, 69 Years stone only
Sarah Ann Rose stone only
"can't read stone" is Nancy Rose
And just discovered June 2012, with the using of the air spade on this lot Alexander "Alex" Johnson and his daughter Menerva.
Cemetery personell personally helped, and dug out this monument, it was completly covered there would not be a clue there was a stone there had it not been for the book. I just went in the office told them where he was located, how I knew the information, and where the stone might be found. I would like to acknowledge the office staff was right there taking care of it. You could not ask for a better group of people. They will take the walk with you the extra mile when asked. This same book please note there have been many errors found in it. So please do not think I am saying these are there, or the physical remains are there.
The staff certainly wished the information was in the books, but unable to change, yet they would have liked to know if they were there or if stones only were moved, and it sure would have been nice to have the records or at least some notes if stones were going to be placed.
Wonder if somehow will find he is related to this one:
J. M. BRYAN, Major, Commanding First Cherokee Battalion.
Maybe he was a part of what was called The History of the Great Removal that began after 1838 the Indians were dispatched into camps from Georgia to move westward, about 18,000 that had continued to be removed from their lands. Further figures include about 100, 000 forcefully removed with 20,000 dying during the trip. The broad plains of the new Indian Territory are promised to the tribes as their own land 'as long as the grass grows and the rivers run' and this was the moments/year in history when grass failed to grow and rivers did not run the year of 1907 when the white settlers continued to encroach on Indian lands promised them by the promised agreement. The Great Migration of 1843 eventually known as the Oregon Trail. There was a place called "Winter Quarters" on the west bank of the Missouri. Brigham Young and his followers join the Oregon Trail at the Platte River.
The University in Springfield MO. furnished an air shovel that was used by the cemetery staff and uncovered the huge monument, rather than the stone that was thought to be flat. What a wonderful find.
I joined the Cherokee Gene Newsletter and put this young one out for help. This is one of many answers and suggestions I had received from a great group of folks:
John was not a full-blood, however, but at best just about 1/4 (and that would be if the unknown Crittenden his great grandmother married was a full-blood and that's highly unlikely) and probably less than that, most likely 1/16th. His mother, Rebecca Wright married Joel Mayes Bryan, a white man. Rebecca appears on the Old Settler Roll of 1851 at Delaware Group 6 as Rebecca Bryant so she didn't walk the Trail of Tears, but came west voluntarily. The name Joel M. Bryant appears on B.F. Currey's muster roll of 1838, but it's a bit mystifying. It shows 2 males under age 25 and 1 female. There should have been one male under age 25 unless there was another male child not in Jim's listing, 1 male over 25 (himself) and 3 females under 25 (Rebecca and two daughters). Perhaps Currey did not list the adults and just got the genders mixed up on the children.Some of their children married emigrant Cherokees, so there are some Miller applications that can perhaps shed some light. I do wonder why their son was buried in Greene County, MO. That's not someplace I would look for a Cherokee family, although there were some from among the Old Settlers whose kin included signers and supporters of the Treaty of New Echota who went to live in MO and other places after the assassination of the Ridges and Elias Boudinot. This might have been the case. There was and AM Bryan on the 1840 census in Greene Co that might have been kin or was really J.M. not A.M. There were a number of Old Settler families who did not live within the boundaries of the Cherokee nation in the IT. Freedom Township, Polk County AR (Joel's brother Tarrance is said to have died in Polk County AR) was almost entirely Cherokee from 1850-1860, and some returned there after the
war, some never left. But most of them also maintained homes in the IT. So stranger things have happened then Cherokees in Greene County, MO!
note IT in this case stands for Indian Territory. I had suspected the Joel Bryan connection and please don't think this information is set in stone at this time. As with all family research and papers found, errors are made.
Another one:
I looked up her Bryan names in the Cherokee Roots book I have (Eastern Rolls) & there was a Joel M. Bryan listed in the Emigration Rolls of 1817-1835.
With the use of devining rods it has been determined the physcial remains of those people are there, the gender has also been verified with the use of these rods. Have used these several times by more than one person. The rods have confirmed the gender to match the names on these unearthed monuments.
Edit March 2022:
Hello Judy, I recently came across this April 1862 article written by a newspaper correspondent visiting Springfield. He wrote:
"I visited on the Sabbath day the cemetery located in the southwest portion of the village. Among several tasteful looking monuments... is a beautiful marble cenotaph to the memory of "John C. Bryan, Native of the Cherokee Nation, born February 17th 1832; died April 17th, 1847." On inquiry, I ascertained this young Indian had graduated at an Eastern college, and died here while on his way home."
Since you sponsored his entry, and have done so much good for him and others on Find-A-Grave, I thought you would like to know. Very respectfully, Kip Lindberg∼"John G Bryan, native of Cherokee nation, died 7 Apr 1847, aged 15"
Missouri Miscellany, Vol. IX, pp 91-93; Greene County, MO, Springfield's Pioneer Cemetery (from The Springfield Patriot, Thurs. Aug. 9, 1883)
He was re-interred from the Old City Cemetery.
All the speculation below and I find this at the library.
Springfield Advertiser Book 1844-1850 April 13, 1847.
Bryan, John C [probable John Copeland Bryan] a youth of excellent promise died 11 isnst. at the home of John P Campbell. He had been in this place a short time and leave grieving parents. [Greene Co.]
Next article that I find a bit more. Miscellaneous Records of the Springfield Advertiser, Springfield, MO. Jan. 2, 1847 to April 16, 1849.
Died
At the residence of John P Campbell, on the 11th inst., Mr. John C. Bryan. He was a youth of excellent mind and promising prospects for the future, but Providence, whose ways are inscrutible and whose mandates must be obeyed, saw proper in its wisdom to remove him from amoung us. We yield and truly sympathized with the bereaved parents of the dec'd. He had been in this place but a short time, but had gained the esteem of all his acquaintances.
Now I wonder if this was the reason that John Bryan was in the home of John Polk Campbell, the prominent and of high esteem, society wise...with this young fellow being a son of some lawyer...He was originally interred in the Old Campbell Cemetery, and then moved to Hazelwood after it was declared unsanitary for people to be buried in the city limits.
1847-49 Establishment of several private schools for boys, the Southwestern Missouri High School and the Springfield Academy, and several for girls, Mrs. Merritt's and Miss Anderson's "schools for young ladies," and Miss McDonald's Female Institute
Looking for this young man on ancestry has not shown anything yet. He was born 2 years after the signing of the "Indian Removal Act" The famous Cherokee Trail of Tears started in 1838, this was 6 years after the birth of this young brave. Bodies of the poor souls are scattered all across many states during the time period of the savage driving of the Indians from their ancestral homes. In 1842 there was a Cherokee slave revolt.
There is problems with finding some people in lot 443 that I have listed and taken pictures of the monuments. The cemetery does not have some of these listed. Johns monument was completly underground.
In the 1990's Ozarks Genealogical Society read the Hazelwood Cemetery, and finished with some addtionals up to 2005 added in before printing. This is where I got the information for these people. Some of them you may find the cemetery does not have any record of. Removal of the bodies from the "Old City Cemtery" at Campbell & State North Springfield Cemetery at Campbell & Atlantic and other burial plots were done after an ordinance was passed that declared it was detrimental to the health of inhabitants of the city to bury dead bodies within the limits. March 10, 1888 it passed. Many of the bodies were re-interred in Hazelwood Cemetery.
These stones were read by the Ozarks Genealogical Society and monuments are in lot 443. I have photographed them, and they are preserved on findagrave. Should you call in now, you may hear the office tell you stone/monument only. At this time no paper work indicates some of these were ever moved physcially. Maybe it was just the stones.
Here is the listed folks. Please visit each of these and please leave a flower for them.
From the book page 503
Abernathy, David T 24 Oct. 1833-Oct 1858 [broken stone]
Patterson, Sarah 7 Nov. 1797-Oct 30 1858 Consort of E Patterson
Rose, Nancy 15 Dec 1846 16 Dec 1846 d/o Sarah Ann & J P Rose
Rose, Sarah Ann 3 May 1822-3 Feb 1841 Consort of J P Rose
Trowbridge, Amanda M 20 Feb 1835-20 Dec 1873 w/o G W Trowbridge
Bryan, John C 17 Feb 1832-7 April 1847 Native of the Cherokee Nation
Talford, Rebeca 26 May 1824-21 Sept 1856 b Lo Co Ky
Faulkner, Mary A 21 Jan 1824-25 Jan 1854 Late Consort of R P Faulkner ae 30y 5 da
Orr, Patience Olivia B died 13 Dec 1854 Wife-Mother, w/o Sample Orr ae 31yr 8mo 18da
Gott, Martha E died 23 Sept 1851 d/o R S & N H Gott, ae 20 yr 4mo
Ten more stones buried in ground, overgrown with grass, illegible.
Now what I know the cemetery records show for the lot.
Mary A Late 1/25/1851, stone only
Tincia Oliva no information
Rebecca Tallord 9/30/1856 stone only
Son of Rebeca and J M Bryan / stone only the back side of his stone is what this turns out to have on it.
Amanda M Trowbridge 12/20/1873 stone only
David Abernathy stone only
E P Gott 2/18/1873, 69 Years stone only
Sarah Ann Rose stone only
"can't read stone" is Nancy Rose
And just discovered June 2012, with the using of the air spade on this lot Alexander "Alex" Johnson and his daughter Menerva.
Cemetery personell personally helped, and dug out this monument, it was completly covered there would not be a clue there was a stone there had it not been for the book. I just went in the office told them where he was located, how I knew the information, and where the stone might be found. I would like to acknowledge the office staff was right there taking care of it. You could not ask for a better group of people. They will take the walk with you the extra mile when asked. This same book please note there have been many errors found in it. So please do not think I am saying these are there, or the physical remains are there.
The staff certainly wished the information was in the books, but unable to change, yet they would have liked to know if they were there or if stones only were moved, and it sure would have been nice to have the records or at least some notes if stones were going to be placed.
Wonder if somehow will find he is related to this one:
J. M. BRYAN, Major, Commanding First Cherokee Battalion.
Maybe he was a part of what was called The History of the Great Removal that began after 1838 the Indians were dispatched into camps from Georgia to move westward, about 18,000 that had continued to be removed from their lands. Further figures include about 100, 000 forcefully removed with 20,000 dying during the trip. The broad plains of the new Indian Territory are promised to the tribes as their own land 'as long as the grass grows and the rivers run' and this was the moments/year in history when grass failed to grow and rivers did not run the year of 1907 when the white settlers continued to encroach on Indian lands promised them by the promised agreement. The Great Migration of 1843 eventually known as the Oregon Trail. There was a place called "Winter Quarters" on the west bank of the Missouri. Brigham Young and his followers join the Oregon Trail at the Platte River.
The University in Springfield MO. furnished an air shovel that was used by the cemetery staff and uncovered the huge monument, rather than the stone that was thought to be flat. What a wonderful find.
I joined the Cherokee Gene Newsletter and put this young one out for help. This is one of many answers and suggestions I had received from a great group of folks:
John was not a full-blood, however, but at best just about 1/4 (and that would be if the unknown Crittenden his great grandmother married was a full-blood and that's highly unlikely) and probably less than that, most likely 1/16th. His mother, Rebecca Wright married Joel Mayes Bryan, a white man. Rebecca appears on the Old Settler Roll of 1851 at Delaware Group 6 as Rebecca Bryant so she didn't walk the Trail of Tears, but came west voluntarily. The name Joel M. Bryant appears on B.F. Currey's muster roll of 1838, but it's a bit mystifying. It shows 2 males under age 25 and 1 female. There should have been one male under age 25 unless there was another male child not in Jim's listing, 1 male over 25 (himself) and 3 females under 25 (Rebecca and two daughters). Perhaps Currey did not list the adults and just got the genders mixed up on the children.Some of their children married emigrant Cherokees, so there are some Miller applications that can perhaps shed some light. I do wonder why their son was buried in Greene County, MO. That's not someplace I would look for a Cherokee family, although there were some from among the Old Settlers whose kin included signers and supporters of the Treaty of New Echota who went to live in MO and other places after the assassination of the Ridges and Elias Boudinot. This might have been the case. There was and AM Bryan on the 1840 census in Greene Co that might have been kin or was really J.M. not A.M. There were a number of Old Settler families who did not live within the boundaries of the Cherokee nation in the IT. Freedom Township, Polk County AR (Joel's brother Tarrance is said to have died in Polk County AR) was almost entirely Cherokee from 1850-1860, and some returned there after the
war, some never left. But most of them also maintained homes in the IT. So stranger things have happened then Cherokees in Greene County, MO!
note IT in this case stands for Indian Territory. I had suspected the Joel Bryan connection and please don't think this information is set in stone at this time. As with all family research and papers found, errors are made.
Another one:
I looked up her Bryan names in the Cherokee Roots book I have (Eastern Rolls) & there was a Joel M. Bryan listed in the Emigration Rolls of 1817-1835.
With the use of devining rods it has been determined the physcial remains of those people are there, the gender has also been verified with the use of these rods. Have used these several times by more than one person. The rods have confirmed the gender to match the names on these unearthed monuments.
Edit March 2022:
Hello Judy, I recently came across this April 1862 article written by a newspaper correspondent visiting Springfield. He wrote:
"I visited on the Sabbath day the cemetery located in the southwest portion of the village. Among several tasteful looking monuments... is a beautiful marble cenotaph to the memory of "John C. Bryan, Native of the Cherokee Nation, born February 17th 1832; died April 17th, 1847." On inquiry, I ascertained this young Indian had graduated at an Eastern college, and died here while on his way home."
Since you sponsored his entry, and have done so much good for him and others on Find-A-Grave, I thought you would like to know. Very respectfully, Kip Lindberg∼"John G Bryan, native of Cherokee nation, died 7 Apr 1847, aged 15"
Missouri Miscellany, Vol. IX, pp 91-93; Greene County, MO, Springfield's Pioneer Cemetery (from The Springfield Patriot, Thurs. Aug. 9, 1883)
