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