"Annie Liggett Bryner, sister of George, Carrie, Laura, and Emma," 1886 by Ann Longmore-Etheridge
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Annie Liggett was born in Saville Township, Perry Co., Pennsylvania in December 1859 to Samuel (1811-1889) and Anne Milligan Liggett (1821-1888). The couple had married on April 28, 1846. Her elder sister Laura Jane was born in 1849; brother George Alfred had been born in 1852; sister Emma Ada had been born in March 1856; Carrie Eleanor was born in 1862. On the 1870 census, Annie can be found living her father who is the 59-year-old proprietor of an iron factory; her mother, Laura, Emma, and Carrie, as well as 18-year-old George, who works in the foundry. According to the book "The History of Perry Country," 1922, by Harry H. Hain, this was Clinton Foundry, which Liggett had built and owned. Laura Liggett married William Flickinger in November 1876. She died in 1933. By 1880, George--now an engineer, presumably at Clinton Foundry--has married a woman named Leah and moved out to start his own family of two daughters and 2 sons, but he hasn't strayed far, living right next door to his parents. (As late as 1910, George is living in Perry Country with his wife, several of his daughters and grandchildren.) Annie married Dr. Newton E. Bryner on October 14, 1886. He seems to have come into the area to replace the previous local physician. The above cabinet card was probably taken at the time of their marriage. Unfortunately, Newton, a graduate in medicine of the University of New York, was dead in less than a year. He passed in April 1887 at Cisna Run (his father's farm), Perry Co., PA. (Note: there seems to be some confusion amongst the Liggett siblings. There may have been another daughter--or the daughter of another Perry County family--named Anna Eliza who was born in 1859 and died in 1877. If this is the case, she was not the woman who marred Newton Brynner in 1886, clearly, as this photo and subsequent census listings bear out. There is also confusion about the death date of Dr. Bryner with some sources giving it as 1877. His alma mater, the University of New York, clearly states in its roster of graduates that Bryner died in 1887.) Annie appears on the 1900 census for Saville Township, Perry Co., as a 40-year-old widow living with Emma Liggett Scott, her 44-year-old sister, who lists her occupation as a farmer who has been married for one year. No husband appears to live in house. The situation had not changed 10 years later, when on the 1910 census, both sisters are still living together and living on their own income. This was derived, presumably, by Emma's ownership of her father's foundry, which is noted in the Haim history. By 1920, the husband had returned: he is 55-year-old James W. Scott, who is a decade younger than his wife. All of them appear to be living on their own incomes. Annie Liggett Bryner in 1927. "Hector Kraus, 408 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA" Albumin print cabinet card.
