Lydia Crowder

Abt 1839 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Lydia Crowder  [1]
  Born	Abt 1839  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Possible Census	29 Sep 1860	Wayland Springs (PO), District 1, Lawrence County, Tennessee, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  	POSSIBLE CENSUS 1. Obryant, G. W., 35, male, farmer, real estate $400, personal $1050, Alabama 2. _____, Lydia, 22, female, Alabama 3. _____, Lucinda A., 6, female, Tennessee 4. _____, Mary E., 4, female, Tennessee 5. _____, Martha F., 3, female, Tennessee 6. _____, George D., 3 months, Tennessee 7. Brown, Malinda C., 11, female, Tennessee, cannot read or write
  	A search for the given name "Lydia" (and similar, as in Lydie, etc.) finds only one of the approximate right age and right birth state. A marriage record is found for "L. A. Brown" to G. W. OBryant, 16 Dec 1853. [This entry is indexed on Ancestry as "S. A. Brown," but an examination of other entries on the page confirms that it is "L. A."] Could Lydia have been briefly married previously? Living in the home with them is Malinda C. Brown--but if that is Lydia's child, Malinda was born when Lydia was about 11. Could Malinda be the child of Lydia's first husband, and not her child? G. W. OBriant enlisted in the 48th Tennessee (Nixon's), from Lawrence County. His record, briefly examined, appears to include desertion and capture, but it is not clear if the capture is by the Union forces because he was a Confederate or by the Confederate forces for desertion. None of the family has been located in the 1870 census. G. W. may not have survived the war, and Lydia may have married again. The spelling of the name is problematical, as well. O'Bryant, Obryant, Obriant, etc., making searches difficult. Searched for each of the children's names in 1870 census for Lawrence County, for neighboring counties, and for neighboring states, with no success. Also searched their names, birth year, and birth state in the general search on the opening page of Ancestry. Nothing forthcoming. CON: FindAGrave entry for Lydia offers her maiden name as "Brown." Is that just from the marriage document? Was it really Brown?
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I425	Full
  Last Modified	12 Mar 2016

  
  

  Father	John Crowder,   b. 1806, South Carolina, USA ,   d. Aft 1880, Tennessee, USA  (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Ann Hardiman,   b. 1810, Virginia, USA ,   d. Aft 1880  (Age 71 years)
  Married	Bef 1835
  Family ID	F44	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S430] Tennessee, Lawrence - census 1850, (1850 U.S. census, Lawrence County, Tennessee, population schedule), District 4, Lawrence County, Tennessee, pg 347B (stamped), pg 694 (penned), Dwelling 810, Family 810, John Crowder household, jpeg image (Reliability: 3). [S4990] 1860 U.S. census, Lawrence County, Tennessee, population schedule, District 1 (Wayland Springs P.O.), p. 215 (penned), p. 402a [stamped], dwelling 1740, family 1378, G. W. Obryant household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 March 2016); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1260. [S4991] Compiled service record, G. W. Obryan (Pvt., Co. I, 48th Tenn. Inf., Civil War, Conf.), Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee; War Department Collection of Confederate Records, RG 109, NARA microfilm publication M268, roll 314; digital images, Fold3 (http://www.fold3.com : accessed 12 March 2016). [S4992] Lawrence County, Tennessee, marriage record, vol. [1854]:145, no. 159, G. W. OBryant-L. A. Brown, 1853, filed 1854; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 12 March 2016) > "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," > Lawrence > 1854 > image 17; citing Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, microfilm [roll not stated], Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville. . [S4993] Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 March 2011), memorial 124714786, 6 February 2014 by Linda Knowlton, for Lydia Elizabeth Brown O'Bryant (1833-1897), citing Barton Cemetery (Barton, Colbert County, Alabama, USA). .