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     Mary Kilgore married James Brannen.

     Stephen Baker married Elizabeth Stewart on 10 February 1841 in Marshall County, West Virginia.
     
Stephen was a great grandson of Captain John Baker, an early pioneer who was killed by Indians near Baker's Station in 1787.¹

     Jasper Baker was born circa 1842. He was the son of Stephen Baker and Elizabeth Stewart.

     Mary Baker was born in 1843. She was the daughter of Stephen Baker and Elizabeth Stewart.

     Royal B. Quinton married Sarah "Sally" Blount Hornby, daughter of John Hornby and Hannah Hilton. Royal B. Quinton was born in August 1819.¹ He died on 22 October 1892 at age 73 years and 2 months.

     Margaret Ballard was born in 1836 in Illinois.² She was the daughter of Hezekiah Rhodes Ballard and Nancy Crawford.¹ Margaret Ballard married William W. O'Bryan on 20 October 1853 in Menard County, Illinois. Margaret Ballard died on 10 August 1915 in Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California.
     
Margaret Ballard and William W. O'Bryan appeared on the census of 1880 at Petersburg, Menard County, Illinois. Most of the O'Bryan family is shown on this census with Margaret listed as keeping house and William as a brick mason. The seven children listed are Harry (20) and Albert (17), both boys working with their father as brick masons. The rest of the children are shown as "at home": William (15), Greene (12), Mamie or Mary (10), Robert (8) and Bertha (5). John Frank (Francis) at age 24 was of course not shown as he was already married and had just had a child of his own.³

John Ballard says he suspects that Margaret was a widow by 1889 since she shows up on a list of delinquent land tax payers in Menard County for that year.²

And in 1910 Margaret shows up on the census as living in Santa Clara with her daughter Mary and her family. The census further shows that only 3 of Margaret's 8 children were still living in 1910: Harry, Mary and Robert (all 8 were alive in 1880).²

     John Frank O'Bryan was born in July 1856 in Petersburg, Menard County, Illinois.^2,3 He was the son of William W. O'Bryan and Margaret Ballard.¹ John Frank O'Bryan married Elizabeth Ann Banks in 1874 in Menard County, Illinois.^4,5 John Frank O'Bryan died on 6 May 1901 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, at age 44. He mistakenly drank wood alcohol and died of acute alcohol poisoning. He was buried at Rosedale Cemetery in LA.⁶

     Elizabeth Ann Banks married John Frank O'Bryan, son of William W. O'Bryan and Margaret Ballard, in 1874 in Menard County, Illinois.^2,1

     Leroy Rhodes O'Bryan was born circa 1880 in Menard County, Illinois.² He was the son of John Frank O'Bryan and Elizabeth Ann Banks.¹ Leroy Rhodes O'Bryan died in 1950 in Contra Costa County, California.¹
     

Per John Ballard, Leroy showed up on the census as living in Los Angeles in 1910.¹

     James Albert O'Bryan was born in 1863 in Menard County, Illinois.¹ He was the son of William W. O'Bryan and Margaret Ballard.^1,2
     James Albert O'Bryan appeared on the census of 1880 in the household of Margaret Ballard and William W. O'Bryan at Petersburg, Menard County, Illinois. Most of the O'Bryan family is shown on this census with Margaret listed as keeping house and William as a brick mason. The seven children listed are Harry (20) and Albert (17), both boys working with their father as brick masons. The rest of the children are shown as "at home": William (15), Greene (12), Mamie or Mary (10), Robert (8) and Bertha (5). John Frank (Francis) at age 24 was of course not shown as he was already married and had just had a child of his own.³ According to John Ballard, two of James' children, one born in Nebraska in 1887, show up on the 1900 census in Los Angeles living with James' brother Robert and his wife Mary Grace. Obviously, James and his family must have moved to Nebraska at some point. Also, according to the censuses, James was a brickmason like his father and brother Harry.¹