Bryson, Samuel

Samuel Bryson was from Woodruff, Utah.  He was assigned as Captain of the sixth ten, as the pioneers were organized into working units (Miller 101).  He is also mentioned on pp 134, 162, 164, 168 of the Hole in the Rock book.

New Information received from Wayne Walton, July 26, 2019, a GG grandson of Samuel Bryson

Birth: 11 April 1845 Bainbridge, County Down, Ireland

Death: 3 September 1919 Provo, Utah, Utah, United States

Samuel Bryson, one of the Woodruff Pioneers, was born April 11, 1845, at Banbridge County Down, Ireland, a son of Samuel and Sarah Ann Conrey Bryson. At the age of ten years, he came with his father's family to Utah as converts to the Church and made their home at Bountiful, Utah,

where he lived until the fall of 1871 when he came to Woodruff to make his home. His family at that time consisted of his wife, two small children and his wife's mother, Tryphena Pomeroy Fairchild.

His wife, Tryphena Fairchild, was born December 11, 1846, at Conewango, Catteraugus County, New York, a daughter of John and Tryphena Pomeroy Fairchild. She came to Utah with her mother, a convert, in 1859, and lived in Salt Lake City until she married Samuel on May 25,

1867. They were parents of nine children: Sarah Tryphena, John Samuel, Eliza Snow, the first white girl born in Woodruff, Charles Melvin, Ellen, David Hyrum, Margaret, Wilford Woodruff and Luther Pomeroy. These children have all lived in Woodruff for part, or all of their lives.

At one time, because of the rigorous climate, Samuel decided to investigate the opportunities of Southern Utah. The company he joined going South proved to be the famous "Hole in the Rock Expedition", a hazardous experience. He returned home and lived in Woodruff the rest of his days.

He helped to build a new community with its roads, ditches and water project. He provided for a growing family and both he and Tryphena were faithful church workers. He was one of the first from the Woodruff Ward to fill a mission. He spent two and one-half years in the Northern States in

1883. He was in the Superintendency of the first Sunday School organized in the ward and held that position for 25 years. He spent many years as a Seventy in the Stake and traveled on missionary assignments from Almy, Wyoming, on the South to Soda Springs, Idaho, on the north, a distance that took almost a week to travel with team and wagon. When the Woodruff

Stake was created, he served on the High Council. He attended Conference both general and stake.