Person Sheet


Name John O'Bryan
Birth 4 Apr 1828, Hopkins County, Kentucky
Death 22 Apr 1913
Father Redick O'Bryan (1792-1879)
Mother Elizabeth Bourland (1796-1866)
Spouses
1 Louisa Sisk
Birth abt 1831
Death 26 Sep 187696
Father Travis Hill Sisk (1810-)
Mother Keziah Martha Sisk (1812-)
Marriage 4 Dec 1850
Children William
James Lacy
John W.
Travis
Henry
Elizabeth J.
Mary F.
Martha Ellen
Sarah E.
2 Mary A. Sisk
Father Milton Sisk (1816-)
Mother Martha Ann Pitman (~1818-)
Children Chester
Florence
Notes for John O'Bryan
Census 1850 Hopkins Co., Kentucky
144/144 O'Bryan, James C. 24 Farmer 400 KY
Martha E. 19 KY
Morton, John 10 KY
177/177 O'Bryan, Redick 59 Farmer 600 NC
Elizabeth 50 SC
Slaton R. 30 Farmer KY
John 22 Farmer KY
Pemora 12 KY
Lucy A. 11 Ky
Carnahan, John S. 5 KY

Rev. John O'Bryan was born April 4, 1828, in Hopkins County Ky. He is the son of Redick and Elizabeth (Bourland) O'Bryan. The father was born May 22, 1792, in North Carolina. In 1810 the family immigrated to Hopkins County, Ky.; he died September, 1881, aged eighty-eight. The mother was born in South Carolina, December 9, 1796. At the age of four years she came with her parents to Hopkins County, where she died in 1866. These parents were life-long and devoted members of the United Baptist Church, having united themselves with this body in 1811. Our subject was reared on his father's farm. At the age of twenty-three, he bought 136 acres of land on Richland Creek which he afterward improved and where he lived for over thirty years; in 1882 he came to Dawson, having exchanged his farm for property here; he owns the Dawson House and four other dwellings, and is engaged in the furniture business at this point. Mr. O'Bryan is a Baptist Minister and since the age of twenty-six has been engaged in preaching. The past twenty-five years he has had charge of the Richland Church; he also has charge of the Harmony Church at Dawson, and one in Webster County. He was married December 4, 1850 to Louisa J. Sisk, of Hopkins County; this union was blessed with nine children - five sons and four daughters. Mrs. O'Bryand died September 26, 1876, aged fourty-five. Mr. O'Bryan's second marriage was April 9 , 1878 to Mary A. Sisk, wifdow of Lee Harrison, and to this union have been born two chidlren - one son and one daughter. Mrs. O'Bryan has one daughter by her former marriage, Mrs. J.D. Meaders.96

John O'Bryan became the fourteenth Pastor to serve the Green River Baptist C97hurch, beginning in November, 1894 and concluding in December, 1895. He was in his sixty-sixth year at the time he was called, having been born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, on April 4, 1828. He made his home in Madisonville, Kentucky at the time he served the Church. He was licensed by the Richland Bapitist Church, Hopkins County, in April 1857, and ordained by the same Chruch in September of 1858. He pastored the Richland Church for 28 years; Salem, 11 years; Silent Run, 15 years; Pleasant Grove, 6 years; Olive Branch, 4 years; Zion, 4 years; Earlington, 4 years; Prospect, 4 years; Madisonville, 18 months; LaFayette, 1 year; Slover, 2 years; Robards, 1 year; Green River, 1 year; and was a Home Missionary in Little Bethel Association from 1867 to 1875. He also served the Dawson Springs Church 14 years. One can easily see that most of his ministry was spent in his native County and in the bounds of Little Bethel Association. Brother O'Bryan departed this life on April 26, 1913, in Madisonville, Kentucky, in his eighty-fifth year. A very breief obituary statement said that he did so "rich in good works." We have no particulars concerning his family life.97
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