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Little Cake Community known for very large families The Carlie and Nona Belle (Neat) Bryant children numbered 19. Ulysses and Mary (Bryant) Grant had 11 children With two family photos By Hilda Grant Smith Special ColumbiaMagazine.com story The Little Cake area in Adair County is known for many unusual things; one of them is the fact that very large families used to live there. One such family was the Carlie and Nona Belle (Neat) Bryant family. Carlie and Nona Belle Bryant were my great grandparents. Carlie and Nona Bryant were the parents of my Grandmother, Mary. There were 19 children in the family, 16 of whom were surviving on May 24, 1961, when the accompanying photo was taken following the funeral of my great grandmother. At the time, there were eight sons and eight daughters. That photo shows Carlie Bryant the surviving daughters, Beatrice, Cora, Evelyn, Florence, Freda, Levona, Lillian, and Mary, and the sons, Buford, Claude, Coy, Herbert, Leighton, Lilburn, Robert, and Russell. Mary Bryant, my grandmother and the daughter of Carlie and Nona Belle (Neat) Byant, not only grew up in a large family in Little Cake. She and my grandfather, Ulysses Sidney Grant, raised 11 children in Little Cake community, as well. The picture which accompanies shows 10 of the children who were surviving in 1974. They were five daughters Betty, Bernice, Judy Rebecca, and Sandra; and their five sons, Carlie, Danny, Hershel, Richard and Sidney (my Dad). An interesting note is that I had a hard time, when I was younger, getting friends to believe that U.S. Grant was my Grandpa. This related letter received Nov. 9, 2007: Big Little Cake families - Aunt 26 before she saw oldest brother The picture Hilda Smith sent of the big Little Cake families reminded Adair County Court Clerk Sheila Blair of an unusual fact about the Mary Grant family Ed, My mother's oldest brother had already left home and was in the military before her youngest sister was born. William Carlie Grant was the oldest of the boys and was afraid of flying. I'm not for sure how long he had been away from home, but the picture with Mary Grant and her surviving children was taken the first time he had been home for many years, this was also the first time that he and his youngest sister Sandra, who was 26 years old at the time, had ever seen each other. He did made several other trips home after that day. Thanks, Sheila Click Here to see photos and read story by Hilda Smith, "Little Cake community known for very large families" This story was posted on 2007-11-09 04:51:16
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