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While I don't have any fixed dates for you, I do have information on a fire. In his brilliant work of the written history of Bryan County, "From Beautiful Zion to Redbird Creek", historian Buddy Sullivan writes about a man named William Henry Wise who built a home in 1868 on the western side of Clyde, then the county seat of Bryan County. About the same time he and his brother, Jake,purchased and restored a string of wooden buildings across the road from the courthouse in Clyde. This Mr. Wise did a lot of volunteer work in the courthouse and helped out the county clerk. A story was widely circulated in those days that the county clerk moved the county records to William Wise's home about 1900 because the old wooden courthouse was a fire trap. The story goes that the court's records were stacked in an unused bedroom in Mr. Wise's home mainly under and on top of a large bed. The house caught fire, and by the time the neighbors came to the rescue they found Mr. Wise jumping up and down telling them to save the courthouse records. It was too late. The story must be true, because the current county clerk says that fire destroyed some of the early records. Additionally, there is no Silas Crosby listed on the Bryan County 1870 Census. It might help if you would tell us the name of the bride and groom.
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