The following July 19, 1917, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 5, column 4:
S.O. Hayden and Merrit Hayden went to Lafayette yesterday morning to see Elias Bryant, who is in poor health.
The following July 26, 1917, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 1, column 4:
DEATH OF FORMER CITIZEN
Elias W. Bryant, who had been in poor health for some time, died in the hospital at Lafayette, Friday. He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A.V. Bryant, and was born and raised in Lowell. He was united in marriage to Anna Hayden, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hayden. Mrs. Bryant died about a year ago. To this union one child was born. Percy the son is now employed in the government as a civil engineer at West Point.
Elias Bryant was a man who had the respect and esteem of every one whom he met, and it will be with a sad heart that his host of friends learn of his death.
Funeral services were held in Lafayette Sunday and interment was made in the cemetery in that city.
The following comes from Rev. T.H. Ball's Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana, with a Compendium of History, 1834-1904, page 119:
ELIAS BRYANT, according to a Porter county history, died on the Pleasant Grove farm, but a son, Robert Bryant, in 1854, settled in Porter county, south of Hebron, where many Bryant families now reside. They have crossed over from Lake into Porter.