Submitted by: Dan Rich

Emma Mary Bryson

May 30, 1858 – Apr. 5, 1937

The South Bend Tribune, Tuesday, April 6, 1937

Miahawaka - Mrs. William Bryson, aged 78, died at 3:15 o'clock Monday afternoon in the St. Joseph county infirmary. She had been an invalid for several years and had been blind for 10 years. She was born May 30, 1858, in Chicago and spent most of her life in this city.

As Miss Mary Eggleston she was married in 1879 in this city to William Bryson, who was killed by a railroad train Aug. 1, 1931, north of this city.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Hirtz, of Honolulu, Hawaii; two sons, Carlton Bryson, of Los Angeles, Calif., and Laverne Bryson, of Honolulu; a sister, Mrs. Alma Riggs, of Champaign, Ill., and a brother, Schuyler Eggleston, of Redwood, Calif. The body may be viewed in the Coats chapel until the funeral at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Rev. F. A. Hayward, pastor of Immanuel Baptist church, will conduct services in the chapel, and burial will be in the city cemetery.

South Bend Tribune

Thursday, April 8, 1937

Funeral services for Mrs. William Bryson, aged 78, of the St. Joseph county infirmary, were conducted at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Coats chapel. Rev. F. A. Hayward, pastor of Immanuel Baptist church, officiated and burial was in the city cemetery.