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Dorsey Bryant Chitwood was born on June 1, 1968 at Rabun County Memorial Hospital in Clayton, Georgia. The time of birth was 10:47 pm on a Saturday night. The baby weighed 5 pounds, 9.5 ounces and was 21 inches long.

Bryant is the son of the late Issac Dorsey Chitwood (November 10,1944 - June 23,2007) and the late Thelma JoAnn Wall Chitwood (May 4, 1947 - March 23, 1999). He has one sibling, a brother, Joseph Nathaniel Chitwood, born in the same hospital on Saturday, August 14,1976 and weighed 5 pounds, 8.75 ounces and was 18 inches long. There was great concern over his brother Joey (his childhood nickname and name called by his closest friends) being such a small baby, but Joey was a fighter and survived, unlike a stillborn child born in 1966 to Bryant and Joey's parents. Their mother, JoAnn never recovered from the loss of her first child and the two miscarriages between her two sons.

Bryant attended Banks County High School in Homer, Georgia, and was a 1986 Honor Graduate,graduating 3rd in his class. He continued his studies at Gainesville Junior College (now Gainesville College and State University); received his BA degree in History from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia,in 1991 and his MA in Middle Grades Social Studies Education in 2008 from Piedmont College. Bryant completed his Ed.S degree at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia, in December, 2012. Currently he is undecided in pursuing his Ed.D in education, instead preferring to spend his time with the light of his life, his daughter Katherine.

On October 22, 2005,after a rather long courtship, Bryant married Shannon Renee' Edwards, daughter of the late Henry Edwards and Carolyn Burton Edwards Simmons,and also the step-daughter of Edwin Simmons,all of Rabun Gap,Georgia. They were divorced on November 25, 2013 after separating on May 4, 2013, the date that would have been his mother's 66th birthday.

On April 15,2009, Bryant and Shannon welcomed a daughter, the first daughter in his family in almost 50 years. Katherine Grace Chitwood was born via Caesarian Section at 5:19 pm on Wednesday,April 15,2009 at Habersham Medical Center in Demorest, Georgia. She weighed 6 pounds, 15.5 ounces and was 18.5 inches long. Katherine is the apple of her parent's eyes!

Bryant is currently in his 14th year of teaching. Bryant taught for 10 years at Commerce Middle School in Commerce, Georgia. The 2014-2015 school year started with Bryant working at Banks County High School and in October, 2014, he transferred to Fulton County Schools as an RTI Intervention Specialist at Elkins Pointe Middle School. The four hour daily commute and other reason led to his resigning the position at the conclusion of the current school year and he is not searching for a position for the next school year. The next two years were spent as a substitute teacher in the Habersham County and White County School Systems by Bryant. At the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year, Bryant Chitwood accepted a position teaching 7th and 8th grade Reading/English at Gainesville Middle School in Gainesville, Georgia, working with struggling students.

His family resides in Baldwin, Georgia. Bryant takes pride in the fact that his daughter Katherine is the fourth generation to live in the home that his grandparents purchased in 1955 (the house was burned by squatters on February 18, 2014). Both Bryant and Katherine were brought home from the hospital to the home on Millie Street.

Currently, Bryant lives with his brother, Joey and Katherine in Banks County, Georgia near the towns of Baldwin and Cornelia, Georgia.