"H" from the lines that read ".one hundred dollars" "H/I" from ".and unto my son (Illac?/Illai?) Thanks to Margie von Marenholtz here is the relevant image of "Hetto/Ety/Ittar" from John Byran's 1825 will: Here are some more samples of capital "H" from the same census taker: Nor "Hetts" Byant as the 1850 census index says īut "Hetto" as the 1850 DeKalb census image shows below: The index of the 1850 Georgia census shows this person as "Hetts Byant".īut, it is not "Heth" Byant the Georgia Census Index says Bad enough - but the first name is clearly shown as "Hetto". Looking around some more i found that the census had mis-spelled the last name as "Byant" - leaving out the letter "r". When I went to the actual census image and looked it up I couldn't exactly read the father's first name (maybe it was Heth?) and the name was NOT in the index for 1850. Right place - right time-right age.but nothing else. This is most exciting because it shows a 20 yr. (very near to Meredith Brown (father of Anis Brown - Thomas Johnson Bryan's wife). Recently I came across a listing on the web for the index of 1850 DeKalb GA census Blackhall District page 185 It was nowhere written down.įor years I've been searching for Thomas Johnson Bryan's parents (i.e., the elusive "Ito") without any luck. It sounded like a long letter "e" followed by the word "toe". The use of the spelling "Ito" is only my interpretation of my father's words. My father used to speak of an ancestor named "Ito" on the Bryan side of our family.
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