Born in Pa. in 1736, she was the daughter of Squire & Sarah Morgan Boone and younger sister of Daniel Boone. Family moved to N.C. when she was 14. There she met, and in 1755, married William Bryan. With 10 children, they migrated to Ky. via the Cumberland Gap in fall of 1779 & settled Bryan Station. Lost
three sons & husband that winter.
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Mary took her children back to her home in N.C. in 1780. After the
Rev. War, they returned to Ky. She was living in Campbell Co. by 1795. In 1813, paid her brother Daniel’s acct. debt to John Grant. She died in 1819 and was buried on son Samuel’s farm at Grant’s Lick; her remains were moved to Oakland Cemetery in 1929.