A.M. Bryant, born in 1818, moved to Texas in 1853 with his wife Clarissa Young and four children, losing one child on the journey; Clarissa died in 1854, and a daughter died later, both being buried in the Kentuckytown Cemetery. The home on this site was built in 1855. With his second wife, Susan Binkley of Sherman, he raised his son David E. Bryant and their three children, Charles W., Columbus B., and Mollie. David E. Bryant served as federal judge of the Eastern District of Texas from 1890 to 1910, and David's son, Randolph D. Bryant, served as judge of the same district from 1931 to 1951. Charles W. farmed and became mayor of Whitewright, Columbus B. was the first cashier and later president of the First National Bank in Whitewright, and Mollie married William King, who was postmaster and president of the First National Bank. A.M. Bryant farmed, accumulated 1000 acres of land, raised and marketed mules, and died in a wagon runaway. Active in Masonary and the Republican Party, he opposed secession but remained loyal to Texas. Local legend held that his views nearly brought him into conflict with the Quantrill Gang, but his neighbors intervened. In August 1865, Governor A.F. Hamilton appointed him presiding judge of Grayson County and a delegate to the First Constitutional Convention of Texas held June 1, 1866. Later, citizens of Grayson County elected him as a delegate to the Second Constitutional Convention, where he joined two important decisions: voting with the majority in a narrow 37 to 27 vote against denying Confederate veterans the right to vote in elections, and voting against splitting Texas into two or more states, for which Union soldiers arrested him.