Hosea Bright Breazeal (5 Apr 1813 – 19 Oct 1891) was the son of Nancy Breazeal Lawless (11 Mar 1791 – 17 June 1841) and the grandson of Joel Brazeal (c1755 – 1829) and Rebecca Griffin (c1760s – 1845+). He married Sarah Elizabeth Mayfield (17 June 1819 – 9 Jan 1888) in 1836 in Tuscaloosa County Alabama. They moved to southern Union County Arkansas in 1858, but in 1867, they settled just north of Spearsville, in Union Parish Louisiana. Bright and Sarah were buried in the Spearsville Cemetery.