Andrew Bryan (1756-1808) moved in 1788 from Virginia to Wilkes County, N.C., where he married Delphia Garnett Jones. The eldest of their nine children was Edmund (1791-1874), who married Ursilla Hampton and lived in Rutherfordton, N.C. Edmund participated in the 1814 campaign against the Creek Indians and Alabama and later became a general in the state militia. The children of Edmund and Ursilla Hampton Bryan were A. Rufus, who married Sue McCampbell; Eliza, who married first William Mills and second Ambrose Mills; Louise, who married Collett Leventhorpe (1815-1889), an English-born officer in the Confederate Army who lived at Holly Lodge in Happy Valley; Mary, who married William Davenport Jones (1839-1912) and lived at the Fountain in Happy Valley; and Edmund, who married Lavallett Pierce.
From the guide to the Bryan and Leventhorpe Family Papers, 1797-1940, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)
