m. 1786
Benjamin Lillard II =============== Elizabeth Hensley
b. 28 Aug. 1740 | b. ca. 1744
d. 06 Nov. 1828 | (a widow)
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Oliver Hedgeman Leftage | Absolem Mary "Polly"
b. 1803 b. 1796 b. 1792 | b. 1790 b. 1786
d. 1865 | d. 1879
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John Bryan =============== Nancy J. Lillard
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| d. 1836
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Silas L. Bryan =============== Mariah Elizabeth Jennings
b. 1822 | from Lebanon, Illinois
from Culpepper |
county, Virginia |
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William Jennings Bryan
b. 19 March 1860
in Salem, Marion county, Illinois
d. 26 July 1925
in Tennessee
Oliver Lillard was Darius "Rye" Lillard's father and William Omer Lillard's grandfather.
William Jennings Bryan was born in Illinois and apparently grew up there. Later he was a member of the US House of Representatives from Nebraska. He ran for US President three times on the Democratic Party ticket, but never won. He is probably most well-known today as the lawyer who won a court trial over evolution, the "Scopes Trial," in Tennessee in 1925, over Clarence Darrow, and then losing it on appeal. See the Vassar web site and Wikipedia.
b. = born
d. = died
m. = married