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  1. Rosa Belle Brinigar: Birth: 20 FEB 1874 in Tazewell Co., Illinois. Death: 16 MAY 1945 in Blythedale, Harrison Co., Missouri

  2. George William Brinigar: Birth: 27 APR 1876 in 1 1/2 miles south Blythedale, Harrison Co., Missouri. Death: 19 FEB 1948

  3. Alta (Emma L. ) Brinigar: Birth: 6 JUN 1879 in Blythedale, Harrison Co., Missouri.

  4. Laura Grace Brinigar: Birth: 14 SEP 1883 in Blythedale, Marion Twp., Harrison Co., Missouri. Death: 10 NOV 1978


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a. Note:   Sources:First marriage is also recorded in book B, page 258, Harrison Co., Missouri. Spells Thomas Breniger. Cemetery records list death date as 10 march 1947. Harrison Co., MO Cemetery Records, Compiled by the Harrison Co., Genealogical Society, 1985, p. 79. History of Harrison County , Wanamaker, 1921 p. 746 Obituary of Thomas Brinigar, 1947. Connie Sheets Source: History of Harrison County p. 746 Thomas Brinigar, a practical farmer and stockman of Harrison Co., is the owner of 196 acres of well improved land and has his residence one-fourth mile from the city limits of Blythedale. Mr. Brinigar was born in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, June 23, 1852, the son of Michael and Emily (Kreamer) Brinigar, sketches of whose lives appear in connection with the review of the life of W. J. Brinigar in this volume. Thomas Brinigar attended the district schools of Wisconsin and came with his parents to Missouri when he was eighteen years old. That was in the early days when Harrison County was still a part of the wid frontier and Mr. Brinigar tells that the country abounded in deer, wild turkeys, and prairie chickens. He had all a boy's zest for hunting and used to shoot the prairie chickens from his father's doorway. Thomas Brinigar became heir to forty acres of land and later added to that tract. He improved his land and sold it, buying it back in 1921. He does general farming on his land and is a successful stock raiser. Mr. Brinigar was married the first time February 16, 1872 to Lucinda Bandy, a native of Knox Co., Illinois, To this union four children were born: Rosa, the wife of Jacob Walton of Colfax Township; George, living in Marion Township; Alta, married to B. M. Troxell, of Wyoming; and Grace, wife of Benjamin Briggs. Mrs Brinigar died February 12, 1918 at the age of sixty-one years. On March 4, 1920, Mr. Brinigar married the second time, Mrs May (Bell) Smith, widow of Norman Smith Lamoni, Iowa, who had, by her first marriage one daughter, Ruth, now married and living in Montana. Mr. Brinigar is a Republican and is a member of the Latter Day Saints Church. He is much interested in the problem of better roads and has served as road overseer for his township. He has also served on the grand jury at Bethany and has been a member of the petit jury five terms, one term at St. Joseph. Mr. Brinigar is a reliable citizen, industrious and enterprising. Source: 1880 census Marion Twp., Harrison Co., Missouri next dwelling to Wallace Hurd 94-108Brinigar Thos25FarmerWI Lucinda24HousekeeperWI Rosa B 6MO George 4MO Emma L.11/12MO Source: 1900 census ED 106 Marion Twp., Harrison Co., Missouri p. 21 Brinigar, Thomas D.headJun185247WIWIWI LucindawifeFeb185545ILKYIL AltadauJun187920MOWIIL Grace L.dauSep188316MOWIIL Source: 1910 census Marion Twp., Harrison Co., Missouri image 2 Wm. Brineger between Thomas ans Walace Hurd 19 - 19Briniger, Thomas B.56WIINPA Lucinda55ILKYIL Source: 1920 census Marion Twp., Harrison Co., Missouri image 17 Brinigar, Thomas67WIINPA Source: 1930 census Marion Twp., Harrison Co., Missouri image 11 146Brinegare, Thomas77WIILPA May66MIOHOH


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