Obituary in the Coffeyville Daily Journal dated August 31, 1935

Joseph Mack Bryant

22 Oct 1856 - 30 Aug 1935

Obituary in the Coffeyville Daily Journal dated August 31, 1935:

Funeral Monday for former Coffeyville farmer who succumbed at Independence yesterday.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Skinner Funeral home for Joseph Mack BRYANT, 80, former Coffeyville farmer who died at 2:10 o'clock yesterday afternoon in his home, 501South Seventeenth street, Independence, following an extended illness.

The services will be conducted by the Rev. Joseph D. Boyd, pastor of the First Christian Church, and burial will be in Elmwood cemetery. Pallbearers, grandsons of Mr. Bryant, will be Lawrence and Lee Bryant of Coffeyville, Loren Keller of Tulsa, Harold Allgood of Independence, Ray Kerr of Watova, Okla., and Claude Bartmess of Oklahoma City.

Mr. Bryant's body was removed to the funeral home here late yesterday. Mr. Bryant, a native of Butler, Mo., came to this vicinity about forty-eight years ago, and for several years the family lived three miles southwest of Coffeyville on the Kansas side of the state line. Later Mr. and Mrs. Bryant moved into Coffeyville, although Mr. Bryant continued farming in this vicinity for some time. The Bryants moved to Independence last March.

Besides his wife, Mrs. Rachel A. Bryant, Mr. Bryant is survived by two sons, Henry Bryant, northwest of Coffeyville, and Abner Bryant, south of Coffeyville in Oklahoma; three daughters, Mrs. J.H. Bartmess of Talala, Okla., Mrs. A.B. Allgood of rural Independence and Mrs. E.A. Martin, Route 4, Coffeyville; a sister, Mrs. Lucinda Eubanks of Corpus Christi, Tex., and a stepson, John Wilson of Independence.


Bates County Missouri marriage records,  Book 2, page 113: State of Missouri, County of Bates.

This is to certify, that on the 7th day of June, 1874 Joseph M. Bryant and Rachel Wilson were by me united in marriage according to the laws of God, and of the State of Missouri, John Wilson, Minister of the Christian Church.