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Friedrich Bruning

16 Mar 1837 – 23 Feb 1909

Birth	16 Mar 1837
Death	23 Feb 1909
Cemetery	Trinity Lutheran Cemetery Bruning , Thayer County , Nebraska , USA
Added by	Marilyn Sanner Keim on 02 Feb 2010
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47355421

Bio

He was born in Bohlenberge, Germany and left home in 1857 at age 20 to come to the United States. He went to Eureka, Ill. where he worked on a farm, then enlisted in the Union Army along with his brother Gerhard. He served in several major battles and was on guard duty the night President Lincoln was assassinated. Following the service, he returned to Illinois and married Helena Philippi. They lived on a farm near El Paso, Ill., where he raised pure bred Percheron draft horses. Later the family moved to Nebraska in order to be near other family members. Children surviving infancy were: Herman F. (b. 1868), William (b. 1870), Friedrich A. (b. 1872) Frank L. (b. 1874), Dorothea (b. 1877) Margaretha (b. 1879), and George C. (b. 1881). He died at Bruning, Ne.

Inscription

VATER [Translation: Father]

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Family

Parents

• Johann Herman "John" Bruning 1802–1862
• Gesche Margarethe Prulrocken Bruning 1806–1865

Spouse

• Helene Philippi Bruning 1842–1907 FaG

Siblings

• Johann Herman Bruning Sr 1832–1905
• Gerhard "George" Bruning 1834–1885
• Margaretha Bruning Danekas 1839–1923
• Wilhelm Bruning 1841–1914
• Frank Dietrich Bruning 1850–1931

Children

• Herman F. Bruning 1868–1897 FaG
• Wilhelm Martin "William" Bruning 1870–1942 FaG
• Frank L. Bruning 1874–1933 FaG
• Margaretha Wilhelmina Bruning Reichert 1879–1934 FaG
• George C Bruning 1881–1939 FaG

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