RYAN, H. C., Beeville Bee, 17 Nov 1899:

In the death of H. C. Ryan, that which occurred last Saturday morning at 3 AM from a stroke of paralysis, 
is removed another of the oldest landmarks among the citizens of this county.  

Mr. Ryan was in the 64th year of his age, having been born in what is now Jackson County, 
Oct. 16, 1836 and was among the oldest native Texans.  At that time the number of Americans with families 
residing in Texas was few and there are not many among its citizenship today who have attained his age 
who can say that they are native born.

Left an orphan at the early age of six, he learned little of the ancestry of his parents other than they came to 
Texas from Pennsylvania and that his father was one of the sturdy yeomen who helped wrest the empire 
state from the thralldom of Mexico.  He grew to manhood under the guardianship of an Uncle James P. Ryan 
and moved to what is now Bee County in the 1850’s and lived for years on the Aransas Creek.  In 1862 he 
was united in marriage to Miss Ann Carroll, who survives him.

Ten children were the results of this union, nine of whom are still living. Mrs. Henrietta Turner, Mrs. Christina 
Parchman, Mrs. Elice E., Buck, W. P., Jno H., Marion, Eugene, Dan and Minnie, all of whom live in this vicinity.

Mr. Ryan had an honorable record both as a citizen and a soldier in the war between the states, having given 
3 years of his life to the “lost cause,” as a member of Company F, First Texas Calvary.  On retiring from the war 
he resumed the peaceful pursuits of farmer and ranchman.  None have stood higher in the estimation of neighbors.

The funeral took place Sunday from the Catholic Church, religious services conducted by Father Monclus.  

The remains were accompanied to the church and to his final resting-place by the local lodge Knights of Honor.