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John Ira Ryan

John Ira Ryan

Male 1826 - 1887  (61 years)

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  • Name John Ira Ryan 
    Birth 17 Feb 1826  Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Census 1830  Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1840  Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Census 1850  Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Census 1860  Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Census 1870  Angelina County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Census 1880  Angelina County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Death 24 Sep 1887  Victoria County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 7
    Person ID I18  EarlyTexans
    Last Modified 12 Oct 2024 

    Father John Ryan,   b. ca 1795, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1826–1830, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years) 
    Mother Ellender Dearman,   b. ca 1800, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1870 (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1822  Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F17  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Ann Otis,   b. 24 Jul 1827, Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Dec 1907, Angelina County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 12 Oct 1848  Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9, 10
    Children 
     1. Emma Eugenia Ryan,   b. 1 Nov 1868, Angelina County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Feb 1950, Dallas County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Documents
    Ryan - Family Info for John Ira Ryan, p. 1
    Ryan - Family Info for John Ira Ryan, p. 1
    Ryan - Family Info for John Ira Ryan, p. 2
    Ryan - Family Info for John Ira Ryan, p. 2
    Family ID F15  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Oct 2024 

  • Photos
    Ryan - John Ira Ryan
    Ryan - John Ira Ryan

  • Sources 
    1. [S109] Find A Grave, photograph © Sue Lovel (contributor #47078425); photograph; 5 September 2015; gravestone for John Ira Ryan (1826–1887), Memorial No. 51870007, records of the Burns Station Cemetery, DeWitt County, Texas.

    2. [S112] CNS 1840 MS Copiah ALL, p. 105 (stamped), p. 99 (penned), l. 12, F. L. Ryan; 213; digital images; 2 December 2006.
      F. L. Ryan's 1840 census household enumeration includes:
      - two males under age 5,
      - one male age 10-14,
      - one male age 15 to 19,
      - one male age 40 to 49,
      - one under age 5,
      - one female age 10 to 14, and
      - one female age 20 to 29.
      Those enumerated with F. L. Ryan in 1840 could include two males under age 5 (sons Daniel B. and Jacob L.), one male age 10-14 (John Ira Ryan, male age 14, born 17 Feb 1826), one male age 15 to 19 (Isaac Lawrence Ryan, male age 16, born 22 Aug 1823), one male age 40 to 49 (Felix L. Ryan, age 41 to 44, born 1796 to 1799), one female under age 5 (daughter Ann L.), one female age 10 to 14 (Elizabeth Ann Ryan, female age 15, born 6 April 1825), and one female age 20 to 29 (Ann Buie Ryan, wife of Felix).

    3. [S93] CNS 1850 MS Copiah ALL, p. 282B (stamped), p. 46 (penned), dw./fam. 1110, John J. E. Rians; 8173; digital images; 2 December 2006.
      Rians, John J E  – M 25 MS
      Rians, Mary A  – F 24 MS
      Charles A  M – 10/12 mos. MS

    4. [S113] CNS 1860 MS Copiah ALL, p. 781B (stamped), p. 99 (penned), dw. 679, fam. 682, Jno. Ryan; 580; digital images; 2 December 2006.
      Ryan, Jno –  M 34 MS
      Ryan, Mary A – F 33 LA
      Ryan, Charles A –  M 10 MS
      Ryan, Jno W  – M 9 MS
      Ryan, Isaac M  – M 6 MS
      Ryan, Wm F  – M 2 MS
      Ryan, Cornelia G  – F 1 MS

    5. [S94] CNS 1870 TX Angelina ALL, Pennington PO; p. 126A (stamped), p. 11 (penned), dw./fam. 63, John Rya; 1573; digital images; 2 December 2006.
      Ryan, John  – M 47 MS
      Ryan, Mrs. Marie  – F 43 MS
      Ryan, Albert  – M 20 MS
      Ryan, John  – M 19 MS
      Ryan, Milton – M 18 MS
      Ryan, Franklin  – M 13 MS
      Ryan, Cornelia –  F 11 MS
      Ryan, Marie  – F 9 MS
      Ryan, Thomas  – M 8 MS
      Ryan, Ann  – F 5 TX
      Ryan, Emmie  – F 1 TX

    6. [S114] CNS 1880 TX Angelina ALL, ED 8; p. 219A (stamped), p. 13 (penned), dw. [blank], fam. 117, John Ryon; 1289; digital images; 2 December 2006.
      Ryon, John  – M 55 MS
      Ryon, Mary  – F wife 52 MS
      Ryon, Cornelia  – F dau 21 MS
      Ryon, Mary  – F dau 19 MS
      Ryon, Thomas  – M son 18 MS
      Ryon, Ann  – F dau 15 TX
      Ryon, Emma  – F dau 11 TX

    7. [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.

      John Ira Ryan died before 1903, but no death record has been found for him.Databases searched for a death record include “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” FamilySearch.org  (http://familysearch.org/: accessed 23 October 2005); “Texas Death indexex, 1903-2000,” FamilySearch.org  (http://familysearch.org/: accessed 12 December 2012); and “Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1976,” FamilySearch.org  (http://familysearch.org/: accessed 12 December 2012). Also searched with negative findings: (a) Index to Death Records, Texas, 1903–1940,Vol. 37, Mosley through Vol. 45, Sanders, microfilm reel #5

    8. [S106] Family Info for John Ira Ryan.

    9. [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.

    10. [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.