Janet Bryan was born 1831 in North Carolina, reportedly in Bertie County. She was the eldest of 8 known surviving children (3 boys/5 girls) born to wealthy planter and businessman, John Stevens Bryan Sr. and his wife, Lucy Davis Haywood.
She is descended on both sides of her family tree from wealthy and prominent North Carolinians. She was the paternal grandchild of Gen. William Bryan, II and his wife, Elizabeth S. Gray of Bertie Co.; and gr-grandchild of William Bryan I & Elizabeth Smith of Johnston County. She is a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, William Smith Bryan (b. ca. 1590-1600) of County Clare, Ireland who first came to the Colony of Virginia around 1650-1660 where they he and his wife, Catherine Morgan, had been exiled by Oliver Cromwell for anti-English insurgent activities during the Puritan Rebellion in Ireland. On her mother's side, she was the maternal grandchild of wealthy Sherwood Haywood & Eleanor Howard Hawkins of Raleigh.
Janet was 17 years old when she married 25-year old Dr. Thomas Devereux Hogg of Raleigh on December 13, 1848. The couple would reside in Raleigh where Dr. Hogg had a practice, and would become parents to 3 known children -- all daughters: Sally Hogg (1850-1918), Janet Bryan Hogg (1852-1928), and Lucy Hogg (1855-1905).
Janet died in 1855 giving birth to her daughter Lucy. She was only 24 years old. Her husband of 7 years never remarried and raised his children, passing 49 years later in 1904 at age 80.
Of her children, eldest daughter Sallie/Sally never married and died at age 68. Janet Bryan Hogg married wealthy businessman Colin McKenzie Hawkins and resided in Raleigh. Their marriage was childless. Lucy Hogg married wealthy attorney Isaac Foote Dortch of Goldsboro and had 8 children. They are all buried here in Oakwood.
She is descended on both sides of her family tree from wealthy and prominent North Carolinians. She was the paternal grandchild of Gen. William Bryan, II and his wife, Elizabeth S. Gray of Bertie Co.; and gr-grandchild of William Bryan I & Elizabeth Smith of Johnston County. She is a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, William Smith Bryan (b. ca. 1590-1600) of County Clare, Ireland who first came to the Colony of Virginia around 1650-1660 where they he and his wife, Catherine Morgan, had been exiled by Oliver Cromwell for anti-English insurgent activities during the Puritan Rebellion in Ireland. On her mother's side, she was the maternal grandchild of wealthy Sherwood Haywood & Eleanor Howard Hawkins of Raleigh.
Janet was 17 years old when she married 25-year old Dr. Thomas Devereux Hogg of Raleigh on December 13, 1848. The couple would reside in Raleigh where Dr. Hogg had a practice, and would become parents to 3 known children -- all daughters: Sally Hogg (1850-1918), Janet Bryan Hogg (1852-1928), and Lucy Hogg (1855-1905).
Janet died in 1855 giving birth to her daughter Lucy. She was only 24 years old. Her husband of 7 years never remarried and raised his children, passing 49 years later in 1904 at age 80.
Of her children, eldest daughter Sallie/Sally never married and died at age 68. Janet Bryan Hogg married wealthy businessman Colin McKenzie Hawkins and resided in Raleigh. Their marriage was childless. Lucy Hogg married wealthy attorney Isaac Foote Dortch of Goldsboro and had 8 children. They are all buried here in Oakwood.
Janet Bryan was born 1831 in North Carolina, reportedly in Bertie County. She was the eldest of 8 known surviving children (3 boys/5 girls) born to wealthy planter and businessman, John Stevens Bryan Sr. and his wife, Lucy Davis Haywood.
She is descended on both sides of her family tree from wealthy and prominent North Carolinians. She was the paternal grandchild of Gen. William Bryan, II and his wife, Elizabeth S. Gray of Bertie Co.; and gr-grandchild of William Bryan I & Elizabeth Smith of Johnston County. She is a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, William Smith Bryan (b. ca. 1590-1600) of County Clare, Ireland who first came to the Colony of Virginia around 1650-1660 where they he and his wife, Catherine Morgan, had been exiled by Oliver Cromwell for anti-English insurgent activities during the Puritan Rebellion in Ireland. On her mother's side, she was the maternal grandchild of wealthy Sherwood Haywood & Eleanor Howard Hawkins of Raleigh.
Janet was 17 years old when she married 25-year old Dr. Thomas Devereux Hogg of Raleigh on December 13, 1848. The couple would reside in Raleigh where Dr. Hogg had a practice, and would become parents to 3 known children -- all daughters: Sally Hogg (1850-1918), Janet Bryan Hogg (1852-1928), and Lucy Hogg (1855-1905).
Janet died in 1855 giving birth to her daughter Lucy. She was only 24 years old. Her husband of 7 years never remarried and raised his children, passing 49 years later in 1904 at age 80.
Of her children, eldest daughter Sallie/Sally never married and died at age 68. Janet Bryan Hogg married wealthy businessman Colin McKenzie Hawkins and resided in Raleigh. Their marriage was childless. Lucy Hogg married wealthy attorney Isaac Foote Dortch of Goldsboro and had 8 children. They are all buried here in Oakwood.
She is descended on both sides of her family tree from wealthy and prominent North Carolinians. She was the paternal grandchild of Gen. William Bryan, II and his wife, Elizabeth S. Gray of Bertie Co.; and gr-grandchild of William Bryan I & Elizabeth Smith of Johnston County. She is a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, William Smith Bryan (b. ca. 1590-1600) of County Clare, Ireland who first came to the Colony of Virginia around 1650-1660 where they he and his wife, Catherine Morgan, had been exiled by Oliver Cromwell for anti-English insurgent activities during the Puritan Rebellion in Ireland. On her mother's side, she was the maternal grandchild of wealthy Sherwood Haywood & Eleanor Howard Hawkins of Raleigh.
Janet was 17 years old when she married 25-year old Dr. Thomas Devereux Hogg of Raleigh on December 13, 1848. The couple would reside in Raleigh where Dr. Hogg had a practice, and would become parents to 3 known children -- all daughters: Sally Hogg (1850-1918), Janet Bryan Hogg (1852-1928), and Lucy Hogg (1855-1905).
Janet died in 1855 giving birth to her daughter Lucy. She was only 24 years old. Her husband of 7 years never remarried and raised his children, passing 49 years later in 1904 at age 80.
Of her children, eldest daughter Sallie/Sally never married and died at age 68. Janet Bryan Hogg married wealthy businessman Colin McKenzie Hawkins and resided in Raleigh. Their marriage was childless. Lucy Hogg married wealthy attorney Isaac Foote Dortch of Goldsboro and had 8 children. They are all buried here in Oakwood.
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