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BY JERRY BRYAN
Rappahannock News
Contributing Writer
It was a Saturday morning. Our fifth wheel RV was snugly situated at a camp site in Culpeper, the 11th state on our “Tin House” odyssey. My wife, Carol, and I had spent the previous few days visiting the libraries in Culpeper, Rappahannok, and Rockingham Counties searching for local information about my Bryan ancestors. We had only the weekend left in this area so, armed with family stories, census information, tax roll listings, topographic maps, and copies of old deeds, we were on our way to Sperryville, the home territory of William and Letty (Asher) Bryan and their descendants from the 1750s to the 1820s, in the hope of identifying some physical evidence of their life there.
Specifically, we were looking for the Baptist Church that William helped build and which, for years, had been called the “Bryan Meeting House,” and the family home which, in the 1950s, was said to be still standing.
We immediately found the few crumbs on the trail that led us onward. The wooded hills and narrow hollows we found at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains looked like the country we had read about. Finding the church,
meeting the
neighbors
Next, we came across Thornton’s Gap, Oventop
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