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Family: John Ira Ryan / Mary Ann Otis (F15)

• Male John Ira Ryan

  
  

  Birth	17 Feb 1826	Copiah County, Mississippi
  Death	24 Sep 1887	Victoria County, Texas
  Burial
  Marriage	12 Oct 1848  [1, 2, 3]	Copiah County, Mississippi  [1, 2, 3]
  Father	John Ryan | F17 Group Sheet
  Mother	Ellender Dearman | F17 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Mary Ann Otis

  
  

  Birth	24 Jul 1827	Amite County, Mississippi
  Death	27 Dec 1907	Angelina County, Texas
  Burial
  Father	Charles Otis | F18 Group Sheet
  Mother	Jeannett Vick | F18 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Emma Eugenia Ryan

  
  

  Birth	1 Nov 1868	Angelina County, Texas
  Death	25 Feb 1950	Dallas County, Texas
  Burial	27 Feb 1950	Angelina County, Texas
  Spouse	Henry Everett Johnson | F13
  Marriage	1 Jul 1891	Angelina County, Texas

  
  

• Documents		Ryan - Family Info for John Ira Ryan, p. 1
  		Ryan - Family Info for John Ira Ryan, p. 2

  
  

• Sources

  [S106] Family Info for John Ira Ryan. [S111] MS Copiah Marriages MDAH 8172, John Ryan to Mary Ann Otis; 12 October 1848; E:345. Isaac Ryan signed the $200 bond with John Ryan (both signed with a mark). The ceremony was performed by Thos. Jones JP. Thomas Jones was married to John Ryan's Aunt Ann Ryan. [S115] OBIT unknown paper, RYAN, Mrs. Mary Ann Ryan (nee Otis); n.d.; n.p; copy provided by Geneva (Ryan) Watts (granddaughter of John Ira Ryan) to Norma Grace (Ryan) Weeks (great-grandniece of John Ira Ryan) to Beverly Dozier Johnson (in 1970s). RYAN, Mrs. Mary Ann Ryan (nee Otis); n.d.; n.p; copy provided by Geneva (Ryan) Watts (granddaughter of John Ira Ryan) to Norma Grace (Ryan) Weeks (great-grandniece of John Ira Ryan) to Beverly Dozier Johnson (in 1970s). RYAN - Mrs. Mary Ann Ryan (nee Otis) was born in Amite County, Mississippi, July 24, 1827. She joined the M. E. Church, South, at Old Ebenezer Church in Copiah County, Mississippi, at the age of 15; was married to John I. Ryan October 12, 1848, in Copiah County, Mississippi. To this union were born the children. She and her husband same [sic] to Texas in June, 1861, and settled in Angelina County and helped to build the first M. E. Church in the county (Ryan's Chapel), of which she w was a member since 1874 until her death, which occurred December 27, 1907. Her husband died September 24, 1887; also three of her children have preceded her to the home above. She entertained in her home the Texas pioneer preacher, Milton Jones, She has eighty-two grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren, most of whom are in the Church and following her beautiful example. She bore her four weeks of sickness with great patience, and after expressing her desire to go to her heavenly home she passed away in great peace. We laid her body to rest in the old home cemetery. Be true, dear ones, and we shall meet grandma by and by. W. A. POUNDS This is a photocopy of a newspaper article, but no indication of which paper it was printed in. This is probably from a Diboll or Lufkin, Texas, newspaper, but the newspapers known to exist from those places only date back to 1923; microfilm copies available in the Kurth Memorial Library, Lufkin.