The Last Roll: Jerry Ryan

Confederate Veteran
Volume17, Number 10, Page 520
October 1909

An eventful life closed with the death of Jerry Ryan recently at his home, in Fresno, Cal., at the age of seventy three years. He came to this country when a young man and located at Houston, Tex., where he married just prior to the war. He joined the Confederate army and served to the end as a member of Company C, 8th Texas Regiment, Terry's Rangers. After the war he removed his family to Oregon, and in 1873 to Fresno, Cal. At the time Fresno had only eleven houses, and as one of the pioneers of the town Ryan had opportunities for good investments, so that he had become one of the wealthiest citizens of that city. He is survived by five sons and two daughters.