... From Morgan Bryan are the Bourbon County family; he was born May 20, 1729, and married Mary Forbes.
From this marriage sprang George Bryan, Sr. who fought in the Revolutionary war, and at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He emigrated with his father from North Carolina, and was married in the fort at Bryan's Station to Elizabeth Neal Rogers, in May, 1780, being the first marriage solemnized in the State of Kentucky. Roasted corn was handed around to the wedding guests in lieu of cake, and mush and milk took the place of ices on this and similar occasions. He was married a second time fifty years later, to Mrs. Cassandra Miller, and died upon the 22d day of November, 1845, in Springfield, Ill. A singular incident concerning Mr. Bryan's life, is the fact that he suffered from a severe attack of whooping cough when over eighty years of age. ...
