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== Life ==
Bryan was born in central Kentucky, probably near [[Danville, Kentucky|Danville]], to James A. Pierce and Elizabeth Crow Pierce, one of three children. In 1823, she married Virginia-born Edmond Bryan. When Bryan was writing her cookbook, she lived in [[Monticello, Kentucky]]; her husband was studying at the [[University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences|Medical College of Ohio]] and the couple had nine young children.<ref>1840 U.S. Census, Monticello, Wayne, Kentucky; Roll: 126; Page: 182. Ancestry.com.</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://teachingwiththemes.com/index.php/2019/07/18/kentucky-housewife/|title=Mrs. Bryan's "Kentucky Housewife": Managing a Household in the 1830s|last=Resor|first=C. W.|date=July 18, 2019|website=Primary Source Bazaar}}</ref> After the cookbook was published, the family moved twice - to Washington County and then to [[Grayson County, Kentucky]].
Bryan died at age 72, in 1877, in [[Macoupin County, Illinois]], at the home of her son-in-law C. F. Burnett. She is buried at [[Cave Hill Cemetery]] in [[Louisville, Kentucky]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028805352/page/n225|title=Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Illinois|publisher=Biographical Publishing Co|year=1885|location=Chicago|pages=228–229}}</ref> Her husband pre-deceased her, dying in 1863.<ref>1850, 1860 U. S. Census, Ancestry.com.</ref>
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