Annie Adams McWhorter

Annie Adams McWhorter

• Father: George Gray McWhorter b. 24 November 1824, d. 10 April 1896
• Mother: Sarah Deborah Adams b. 18 July 1832, d. 25 March 1915

• Annie Adams McWhorter was born on 20 October 1866 in Georgia. At some point later in life, she began spelling her maiden name "MacWhorter."
• George Gray McWhorter and Sarah Deborah Adams appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Augusta PO, Richmond County, Georgia. Other members of the household included Annie Adams McWhorter, Jacob Gray McWhorter and Sarah Adams McWhorter. The household staff numbered five females and one male.
• George Gray McWhorter and Sarah Deborah Adams appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. Other members of the household included Annie Adams McWhorter, Jacob Gray McWhorter and Sarah Adams McWhorter. There also were two female domestic servants in the household.
• The following appeared on 8 July 1887 in the Augusta Chronicle: Maj. and Mrs. George G. McWhorter left yesterday morning for Asheville, N. C. . . . Miss Annie McWhorter left yesterday morning to visit her sister, Mrs. Sturgiss, at Fairfield, Conn.
• The following appeared on 17 October 1888 in the Augusta Chronicle: Miss McWhorter was an acknowledged leader in Morehead City and at Asheville. . . . Mrs. Adams, Miss Annie Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McWhorter and Miss McWhorter arrived last evening from the mountains of North Carolina.
• She married Charles Shepard Bryan on 6 February 1889 in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia.
• The following appeared on 7 February 1889 in The Macon Telegraph: (Augusta, Feb. 6) At noon today at the Church of the Good Shephard on the Sand Hills, Mr. Chas. Shepard Bryan, a young business and social leader of Newberne, N. C., was married to Miss Annie Adams McWhorter, the beauty and belle of Augusta society. The ceremony was performed by Bishop E. G. Weed, who came up from Jacksonville especially to officiate at the ceremony. There were six attendants and the church was crowded.
       A reception was afterwards tendered the couple and their friends at the home of Mrs. Sturgis, the bride's sister. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan left tonight for New York.
• The following is excerpted from an obituary of Sarah McMurphy Adams, published on 27 July 1901, "The deceased is survived by her children, Mrs. Joseph Ganahl, Mrs. Sarah McWhorter, Miss Annie Adams, Mr. John Adams; her grandchildren, Mrs. P. A. Stovall of Savannah, Miss Harriet Ganahl of New York, Mr. A. G. Ganahl, of Washington, and Mr. Joseph Ganahl of this city, Mr. Adams Ganahl of Savannah, Mrs. Sturges of New York, Mrs. Charles Bryan of New Berne, N. C. "
• Charles Shepard Bryan and Annie Adams McWhorter appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Manhattan, New York, at 78 Irving Place. Other members of the household included Gray MacWhorter Bryan, Mary Spaight Shepard Bryan and Margaret Donnell Bryan.
• Annie Adams McWhorter appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Little Silver Borough, Monmouth County, New Jersey, at Oaks Road enumerated next to her daughter Mary Hartshorne. Other members of the household included Margaret Donnell Bryan. Also in the household were two female domestic servants.
• Mary Spaight Shepard Bryan appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Manhattan, New York, at 131 East 66th Street. Other members of the household included Annie Adams McWhorter, James Mott Hartshorne IV, Anne MacWhorter Hartshorne and Margaret Donnell Bryan. Also in the household was one female domestic servant. In 1935 the entire household was living in Little Silver, New Jersey.
• Annie Adams McWhorter died on 28 December 1940 at age 74.
• Her husband Charles Shepard Bryan became a widower at her death.
• She was interred at Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina.
• The following appeared on 29 December 1940 in The New York Times: [Died] Annie McWhorter Bryan, on Dec. 28, in her seventy-fifth year, beloved wife of Charles S. Bryan of Asheville, N. C., and beloved mother of Gray MacW. Bryan, Mary B. Hartshorne and Margaret D. Bryan of New York. Funeral private. Augusta, Ga., papers please copy.
• The following appeared on 31 March 1956 in The New York Times: [Died] Charles Shepard Bryan, on March 28, 1956, in his ninety-first year, at Asheville, N. C., husband of the late Annie MacWhorter and father of Gray MacW. Bryan of New York City, Mary Bryan Hartwshorne of Asheville, N. C., and Margaret D. Bryan of Fairfield, Conn.

• Last Edited: 25 Dec 2014