Charles Shepard Bryan

Charles Shepard Bryan

• Charles Shepard Bryan was born circa 1866 in New York City, New York.
• He married Annie Adams McWhorter, daughter of George Gray McWhorter and Sarah Deborah Adams, 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.
• 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.
• He was self-employed as a banker, according to the 1920 census.
• Charles Shepard Bryan became a widower at the 28 December 1940 death of his wife Annie Adams McWhorter.
• 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.
• Charles Shepard Bryan died on 28 March 1956 in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
• He was interred at Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina.
• 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: 19 Dec 2014