Charles Hinkle Bryan

Charles Hinkle Bryan

• Son of John Henry Bryan and Elizabeth Johnson (Hinkle) Bryan

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• yDna R-Y4010 from the Irish cluster L-226
  

Douglas Gregory Bryan states: It is my understanding that the descendants of John Bryan are not descended from Morgan nor a son of Joseph and Alice. John Bryan, the father of Charles Hinkle Bryan, is the correct profile. The other should be removed from parents.Seems there are two different Bryan branches claiming this John Bryan. Can we split them into two separate profiles because it is distorting the Y DNA information along my line on our Geni Profiles? It says we are R-BY32723 while my DNA testing shows me to actually be R-Y4010 from the Irish cluster L-226..

Charles Hinkle Bryan born December 14, 1807 Charles Hinkle_ Bryan Farm Floyds Fork, near Louisville, Kentucky. Parents John Henry Bryan and Elizabeth Johnson Hinkle Bryan. Bryan Station -> Jefferson Co Kentucky CHB died. January 14, 1885. Nephi, Utah

Studied surgery in Louisville, KY. Then learned trade of tanning. Settled in Turkey Spring, Illinois. near Blackhorse Tavern with young son John Henry Bryan after roaming restlessly on horseback after becoming a widower. Here he met his wife Maranda Cazier. Had family nearby in Illinois. Lovington, Illinois. Land Owner in Illinois Salt Lake City 4th Ward. -> Nephi, Utah.

Brigham Young called a pioneer group of seventy-six members to establish a settlement in Salt Creek Outpost. This was later called Nephi, bushes that were unfamiliar to the chuckle of wagon wheels. But the pioneers had traveled such roads for more than a thousand miles coming westward from the Missouri River. They were now going to make a new home for themselves and their families.

The Mormons were driven from of Lovington, Illinois. – James Cazier, Benjamin Cazier, and John Cazier were among the Mormons together with Andrew Love and James O. Bigelow who were pushed out of Lovington, Illinois. Charles H. Bryan and Miranda were so distressed by the departure of their loved ones that they later sold their homestead and followed the Mormons to the Rocky Mountains. Charles H. Bryan and Miranda felt the Mormons were being villianously imposed upon and nothing could part them from their family and friends.

"The mob drove from that place Andrew Love and family, William Cazier and family, and George Best and family, “Mormons”, and Brother Bryan and family who had not then joined the church. The mob offered to give Bro. Bryan further time to make preparations for moving, saying they had nothing against him except that he would harbor the “Mormons”, but he refused the proposal and moved at once with his friends and neighbors.

He built a house and remained at Highland Grove until the 19th May 1848, when he started West, reaching Salt Lake Valley on the 22 September of the same year, where he took up a city lot and farm and remained until the 22 October 1851, when he moved to Nephi, Juab County, reaching that place on the 31st day of October 1851. In November 1852, he was ordained a High Priest by Bishop Jacob B. Bigler, Sr., and chosen and set apart to act as his First Counselor, in which position he acted until June 1861 when he was ordained and set apart by Bishop Edward Hunter to act as Bishop of Juab County. He acted in that capacity until 25 October 1869 when he went on a mission the Western and Middle States, returning from his mission on 10 March 1870. He took a prominent part in the Indian War of 1853, and was one of a committee appointed and who acted in the location and building of the Fort Wall around the town of Nephi. The dimensions of the wall being 105 rods square. 6ft. thick at the bottom, and 2 feet at the top, and 12 feet high, having gates on the North and South sides. He held a commission from Governor Brigham Young appointing him to the office of “Surgeon’s Mate of the Battalion of Infantry of Juab Military District”, with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant of Juab Military, District of the Nauvoo Legion, and of the Militia of Utah Territory, to take rank from 21 January 1854. 1 June 1877, he was ordained and set apart by President Brigham [Young] to the office of High Council of Juab Stake of Zion, which office he held until his death. He took a leading part in the building of the Nephi Meeting House, and Social Hall, and in locating of the townsites and field of Juab County, also, in the establishment of cooperative institutions. He presided over the Nephi Cooperative Mercantile and the Nephi Mill and Manufacturing Company for several years. He organized the Nephi Relief Society 23 June 1868. He entertained President Brigham Young and many of his company on nearly every occasion of his passing through Nephi and kept an open free house to the traveling public for many years. He acted as physician and surgeon, free of charge on every occasion to any and all who called upon him in that capacity -- Mormon, Jew, or Gentile, numbering thousands of cases from the time of his arrival until his last sickness. There is scarcely a home in Nephi that does not remember him in kindness and gratitude for his benevolent acts. His death came like sleep to an infant, passing away quietly and resignedly. His funeral was held at the North Meeting House at 11 A.M., 16 January 1885. Apostle Teasdale conducting the services. Presidents Paxman, Grover, Sperry and Elder Andrew Love, Bishop Udall and Patriarch J. G. Bigler also spoke and giving testimony of the faithfulness and usefulness of the deceased. He leaves two wives, two sons, and several grandchildren to mourn his loss."

Written By: Apostle George Teasdale