Bryant Walters
Born: 17 April 1802 in Robeson County, North Carolina.
Died: 12 March 1884 in Montgomery County, Al.
Father: William Walters
Mother: Celia Dawson
Married: Elizabeth Hobbie ca. 1822 in Robeson County North Carolina, Jennette Cook 20 November 1862 in Lowndes County, Alabama
Children: Sarah, Elizabeth, William A., Emily Elizabeth
Pictures: Briant Walter Headstone
Bryant Walters (or Briant Walter) was born in Robeson County, North Carolina in 1802. He was the youngest of 15 children. He married Elizabeth Hobbie (or Hobby, Hobbey) around 1822 in Robeson County. Their daughter, Emily Elizabeth Walters was born 28 July 1826 in North Carolina. Bryant was an early settler of Montgomery County, Alabama moving there in 1832 with his brother James and sister Ellenora.
August 8, 1832: Briant Walters, of Montgomery Co, AL, received land certificate no. 9504 for 80.41 acres, for East half of the South East quarter of Section 29 in Township 14 of Range 18 (appears to be located along Smiley Ferry Road, about a mile and a half southwest of Little Zion Church and northwest of the Town of Ramer), in the district of lands subject to sale at Cahaba, AL. Recorded in US Bureau of Land Management Land Patents, in Accession/Serial Number AL0310__.405.
August 20, 1834: Bryant Walters, of Montgomery Co, AL, received land certificate no. 14171 for 40.08 acres, for North East quarter of the North East quarter of Section 32 in Township 14 of Range 18 (located just south of the land in section 29), in the district of lands subject to sale at Cahaba, AL. Recorded in US Bureau of Land Management Land Patents, in Accession/Serial Number AL0410__.088.
1836-37: Bryant Waters sold to N. W. Bush property. Recorded in Montgomery Co, AL Deed Book N, page 349.
1841-43: Bryant Waters sold to L. D. Waters property. Recorded in Montgomery Co, AL Deed Book S, pages 038 and 039.
1843-44: Bryant Waters sold to Samuel E. Burnley property. Recorded in Montgomery Co, AL Deed Book T, page 592.
1844-45: Hiram Boyd sold to Bryant Walters property. Recorded in Montgomery Co, AL Deed Book U, page 121.
1844-45: Bryant Waters sold to William A. Walters property. Recorded in Montgomery Co, AL Deed Book U, page 155.
1847-48: Bryant Waters sold to Edward H. Lewis property. Recorded in Montgomery Co, AL Deed Book X, page 358.
1850: Bryant (M50) and Elizabeth (F49) Waters appear as heads of a family in 2nd District in Montgomery Co, AL census, page 164. Children: William A. (M22). Enumerated as owning property worth $1,200.
Bryant remarried to a woman named Jennette Cook on the 20th of November, 1862 in Lowndes County, Alabama after Elizabeth died.
Obituary for Mrs. Emily E. Noble [Emily Elizabeth Walters, Bryant's daughter]
LeGrand, Ala., Sept. 17—Died at her home at LeGrand on the evening of September 8th [unreadable] Mrs. Emily E. Noble at the advanced age of 89 years. The deceased had been in declining health for a number of months and her death was not unexpected. She was a daughter of the late Bryant Walter who was one of the early settlers of Montgomery county, having moved from North Carolina about the year 1822, and entered from the government to a homestead of 160acres, where he raised his family and lived all his life. The deceased had lived here all her life and had lived in the same house for 60 years. She was the mother of ten children, five sons and five daughters and a member of the Baptist church for 50 years, and in every condition of life as wife, mother, neighbor and friend, she measured up to the full standard of true womanhood. She is survived by two sons, W. H. Noble and Volney Noble and three daughters, Mrs. J. T. Palmer, Mrs. W. H. Seeley and Mrs. E. R. Reynolds, and a large number of grand children.
Source for above obituary: I believe this to be from a Montgomery newspaper, probably The Montgomery Advertiser [TT].
Bryant is buried in Sharp Cemetery in Montgomery, Al.
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