When William Monroe Bryant was born on 4 July 1858, in Warrenton, Warren, Missouri, United States, his father, John W Bryant, was 35 and his mother, Susan Elizabeth Crouch, was 23. He married Sarah Jane Bethel in 1880, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1935 and Bear Creek Township, Montgomery, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 13 April 1941, in Clayton, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in New Florence Cemetery, Danville Township, Montgomery, Missouri, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): from the Celtic personal name Brian (from brigo- ‘high’ + the suffix -ant-), with excrescent -t. Breton bearers of this name were among the Normans who invaded England in 1066. They went on to settle in Ireland in the 12th century, where the name mingled with the native Irish form Briain (see O'Brien ). The latter had also been borrowed, as Brján, by the Vikings, who introduced it independently into northwestern England before the Norman Conquest.
Breton: very rare variant of Briant (see Briand ) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
History: The American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) came of a New England family, being descended from Stephen Bryant, who had settled in Plymouth Colony in 1632.
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