Lydia Ann Minehart

MINEHART

Posted By: Sheila Federspiel (email)
Date: 2/10/2008 at 18:59:51

History compiled by Jay Hart Rosdall
Submitted by Sheila Federspiel

LYDIA ANN MINEHART

The second child of Philip Minehart and Christena Fenstermaker, was born at Basil, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Nov. 5, 1822. On January 23, 184, she married one, Alexander Bruner, by Rev. P. Weis. Mr. Bruner was born at Maulbron, Neckar Kreis, Wurttemberg Germany, April 6, 1818. For the very interesting story of his coming to America and the storms at sea in 1831, the reader or descendant is the compilator’s accompanying work entitled “The Bruner Family History”. At this juncture it seems appropriate to observe that of the six Minehart children raising families, three married Bruners, and of the three remaining families there is none of which at least one member did not marry someone of Bruner blood. The Bruner Family book embodies 1164 names.

To Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Bruner were born six children prior to their journey to Linn County, Iowa; there were as follows: Louis Irwin; John Alexander and George Washington – twins; Christiane and Anna M. Elizabeth. Louis and the twins died in infancy and were buried in Fairfield County. In 1850,the family came to Maine Township, Linn County, Iowa and settled on one and one-half miles east of site of the present Central City. Philip, the oldest child, married Margaret Eliza Newell and went with the Newells to Kansas in the middle seventies. He is buried at Norton. His sister, Anna Elizabeth and brother Simon Peter went with the Noah Fenstermaker family in 1878. Their trip has already been related. Peter returned and went back to Ohio for his second wife, Clara Virginia Garling. He went to Tennessee and shortly thereafter returned to Iowa and induced his brothers, Elis, and George Adam and their parents to also go to Tennessee. His remains were brought back and buried in Boulder Cemetery, Buffalo Township, Linn County, Iowa. Four years later on Dec. 14, 1903, Lydia Ann passed away to join him. Her last days were spent in the hone of her son-in-law, John Birk, in Anamosa, Iowa. Further details relative to the childrend may be found in the Bruner Family History.