Mary Spaight Shepard Bryan

Mary Spaight Shepard Bryan

• Father: Charles Shepard Bryan b. circa 1866, d. 28 March 1956
• Mother: Annie Adams McWhorter b. 20 October 1866, d. 28 December 1940

• Mary Spaight Shepard Bryan was born on 27 December 1894 in New Jersey.
• Harold Hartshorne registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in Manhattan, New York, while living with his wife at 161 East 79th Street, self-employed as a broker at 7 Wall Street.
• 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 Mary Spaight Shepard Bryan, Gray MacWhorter Bryan and Margaret Donnell Bryan.
• She was employed as an insurance clerk, according to the 1920 census.
• The following appeared on 29 December 1922 in The New York Times: The wedding of Miss Mary S. S. Bryan, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Charles Shepard Bryan of 76 East Fifty-fourth Street, and Harold Hartshorne, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Mott Hrtshorne of 40 East Sixty-fifth Street, is to take place quietly at 4:30 o'clock on next Thursday afternoon, Jan. 4, in the chantry of St. Thomas's Church.
       Miss Bryan will have as her maid of honor and nly attendant her sister, Miss Margaret D. Bryan. George W. Case Jr. is to be best man, and Mr. Hartshorne will have six ushers.
       A small reception at the home of the bride's parents will follow the ceremony, which is to be performed by the Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stires.
• She married Harold Hartshorne on 4 January 1923 in Manhattan, New York.
• Harold Hartshorne and Mary Spaight Shepard Bryan appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Little Silver Borough, Monmouth County, New Jersey, at Oaks Road enumerated next to Mary's mother and sister. Other members of the household included James Mott Hartshorne IV and Anne MacWhorter Hartshorne. Also in the household was Harold's son from his earlier marriage, Harold Jr. (age 12), as well as a butler and a nurse, and four other household 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 James Mott Hartshorne IV, Anne MacWhorter Hartshorne, Annie Adams McWhorter 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.
• 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.
• Mary Spaight Shepard Bryan died on 12 February 1966 at age 71 in Mexico City, D. F., Mexico, at A.B.C. Hospital.
• The following appeared on 15 February 1966 in The New York Times: [Died] Mary Bryan Hartshorne, formerly of this city and Asheville, N. C., in Mexico City on Feb. 12. The former wife of Harold Hartshorne of N. Y. C., she was the daughter of Charles S. and Annie MacWhorter Bryan Hartshorne of this city. She is survived by a son, James M. Hartshorne, Ithaca, N. Y., two daughters, Mrs. Henry L. Inniss of Mexico City and Mrs. Jose Carrasco, with whom she resided at Fresnotitola 13, Tetelpan, Mexico City, 20; a stepson, Harold Hartshorne Jr., Lake Geneva, Wis., and 14 grandchildren. Memorial service private in Mexico City. Asheville, N. C. papers please copy.

• Last Edited: 25 Dec 2014