When Harriet O'Dell Roberts was born on 21 June 1825, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Holcomb Roberts, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth O'Dell, was 18. She married Lewis Marion Bryan Sr on 15 September 1842, in Marshall, Madison, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and Township 1 Marshall, Madison, North Carolina, United States in 1870. She died on 7 May 1898, in Marshall, Madison, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Lewis H Bryan Cemetery, Marshall, Madison, North Carolina, United States.
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English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
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