General Notes

Custom Field:<_FA#> Bryant is listed in 1820 and 1830 census records of kershaw District, SC@@S726784@@Date of Import: Jul 31, 2003
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He served in the war of 1812 as a private in Capt Chapman Levy's Company,
2nd Regiment (McWillie's) from Oct 6 1814 until Mar 05 1815 (acc. to B.
Elmer Spradley).  He resided in Kershaw District, S.C.
1820-1830-------Montgomery AL. 1850----Lowndes Co. AL. 1870.
Bryant was in the Kershaw Co., census of 1830 and moved to Alabama in
1834. His son, Bryant Eugene Spradley gave his birth state as Georgia in
later census records. James L. Buckley, Jr.'s Note. His brother Manning
was in Georgia at that time and it is likely they visited with him on the
way to Alabama.
1830 Census, Kershaw County, South Carolina, Page 35
Household of Bryant Spradley, Jr. (III) born in 1794 per 1850 Census
Age 30 to 40 Bryant Spradley, Jr.       born 1790 to 1800
Age 30 to 40 Female (Wife, Jane)       born 1790 to 1800
Age 20 to 30 Male                              born 1800 to 1810
Age 15 to 20 Male                              born 1810 to 1815
Age 15 to 20 Female                           born 1810 to 1815
Age 10 to 15 Male                              born 1815 to 1820
Age 10 to 15 Female                           born 1815 to 1820
Age  5 to 10 Male                               born 1820 to 1825
Age  5 to 10 Male                               born 1820 to 1825
Age  5 to 10 Male                               born 1820 to 1825
Age  Below 5 Female (Mary ? b.1828)  born 1825 to 1830.
Bryant Spradley was missed in the 1850 Census but he was on the
Montgomery County tax record page 13. He gave 1 male and 3 females under
age 16, 1 male and 1 female over 21, and one male over 45. Total of six
people.
On 1 Nov 1858 Bryan Spradley signed for the purchase of 80.075 acres in
Montgomery Co., AL.  The legal land descriptions:  Nr. 1;  Allquot Parts:
NENE; Sec/Blk: 28; Township: 12-N; Range: 18-E; Fract. Sect.: N;
Meridian: St Stephens Meridian; Acres: 80.075; and County: Montgomery.
The land office was in Greenville.  He also on 1 Nov 1858 signed for a
Legal Land Description that listed the Acres as zero. It is described as
follows:  Nr. 1;  Allquot Parts: SENW; Sec/Blk: 27; Township: 12-N;
Range: 18-E; Fract. Sect.: N; Meridian: St Stephens Meridian; Acres: 0;
and County: Mongtgomery. The land office was in Greenville.
1860 Census Butler Co., Ala., Sal Soda District
#963     Bryant Spradley    M    66  b. SC
Spradley    M     35  b. AL
M.     Spradley    F     20  b. AL
T.     Spradley    M    18  b. AL
S. Durn Spradley F    10  b. AL
Bryant died in the home of his son, Bryant Eugene.
"In the early settlement of the county, Collirene was first called
'Sand Hill', and later 'Hay Hill'.  The latter name was, for some reason,
distasteful to the residents.  One night in 1840, Hon. William R. King,
of Dallas, stopped overnight at the home of Mr. Green Rives, while on his
way to or from the federal senate.  Mr. Rives asked Mr. King to suggest a
name for the place, and he did so.  From the Latin words 'Collis', which
means hill, and 'arena', means sand, he created the name 'Collirene' by
the simple expedient of omitting the last letter of the first word, the
first of the second, and changing the final 'a' of arena to 'e'." (1)
(1) Russell, Mildred Brewer, Lowndes Court House: A Chronicle of
Hayneville, an Alabama Black Belt Village; 1820 - 1900, (Montgomery, AL:
The Paragon Press, 1951), p. 4
On 4 Jun 2000 my wife, Eunice and I visited the Bethany Baptist Church,
located in Collirene, Lowndes Co., AL. A sign in front of the church
states that it was established in 1831.  In the back of the church is the
cemetery, where we found Bryant Spradley's headstone. The Federal issued
headstone, erected in recent years, was still white and clean. On the
headstone was inscribed: Bryant Spradley PVT SC MILTIA WAR of 1812 1792 -
1870. The 1860 F