Presbyterian MinisterBorn: | April 3, 1831, Fayetteville, TN |
Died: | January 1, 1897, Huntsville, AL |
Buried: | Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, AL |
Notes:• "His father, Rev Henry Bryson, DD, was a minister of the Associate Reformed church and his mother, Hannah McMullen, a sister of Rev. J. P. and R. B. McMullen, two distinguished ministers of the Southern Presbyterian church." - Alabama Biography
• "He graduated from Erskine college, S. C., and completed his theological studies at Newburg, N. Y." - Alabama Biography
• He entered the services of the C. S. Army as chaplain, serving throughout the war. - Alabama Biography
• Moderator of General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, 1886, at Augusta, Ga. - Find A Grave
• "His first charge was in Shelbyville, Tenn., and after a short while he became a student at the University of Virginia, supplying the Charlottesville church at the same time. He spent five years in Columbia, S. C., and after some time spent in travel in Europe, Egypt and Palestine, accepted a call to Huntsville, Ala., where he remained for sixteen years." - Alabama Biography
• Last residence: Huntsville.
Related Links:• Alabama Biography - History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume 3, by Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, © 1921, p. 245.
• Find A Grave - Genealogical & Biographical information page created by Michael Blanchard posted June 7, 2011 (with photo).
• HMCPL Obituary Index - Purchase his obituary here (Originally found at http://obits.hmcpl.org/index/dr-john-h-bryson-1897.)
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