Lettice Pierce Bryan | |
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Born | Lettice Pierce 1805
Kentucky, U.S. |
Died | 1877 (aged 71–72) |
Resting place | Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
Spouse |
Edmond Bryan
(
m. 1823; died 1863) |
Children | 14 |
Lettice Pierce Bryan (1805–1877) was an American author, who wrote The Kentucky Housewife, a cookbook originally published in 1839. [1] [2] [3]
Lettice Pierce was born in central Kentucky, probably near 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 Medical College of Ohio and the couple had nine young children. [4] [5] After the cookbook was published, the family moved twice - to Washington County and then to Grayson County, Kentucky. Bryan had 14 children. [5]
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. [6] Her husband pre-deceased her, dying in 1863. [7]
Lettice Pierce Bryan | |
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Born | Lettice Pierce 1805
Kentucky, U.S. |
Died | 1877 (aged 71–72) |
Resting place | Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
Spouse |
Edmond Bryan
(
m. 1823; died 1863) |
Children | 14 |
Lettice Pierce Bryan (1805–1877) was an American author, who wrote The Kentucky Housewife, a cookbook originally published in 1839. [1] [2] [3]
Lettice Pierce was born in central Kentucky, probably near 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 Medical College of Ohio and the couple had nine young children. [4] [5] After the cookbook was published, the family moved twice - to Washington County and then to Grayson County, Kentucky. Bryan had 14 children. [5]
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. [6] Her husband pre-deceased her, dying in 1863. [7]