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 Lillard =============== Nancy Pence John Bryan =============== Nancy J. Lillard
b. 24 March 1803 | | b. 1788
d. 14 June 1865 | | d. 1836
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Darius ("Rye") Lillard ========= Hannah Murphy Silas L. Bryan =============== Mariah Elizabeth
| b. 1822 | Jennings
| from Culpepper | from Lebanon, IL
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William Omer Lillard William Jennings Bryan
b. January 1858 b. 19 March 1860
d. 1901 in Salem, Marion county, Illinois
d. 26 July 1925
I hope this clarifies the Lillard Family connection to William Jennings Bryan. Great-grandfather Rye Lillard was the first cousin of William Jennings Bryan's father, Silas Bryan. By the time you get down to Mildred, Helen, and Georgia Lillard, the connection is becoming somewhat tenuous.
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