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Note: 1845 BIRTH: Biographical Memoirs of Jay County, (1901) p. 695. 1845 BIRTH: Milton T. Jay, M.D., History of Jay County Indiana, Historical Publishing Co., Indpls. 1922, Vol. II, p.323-324. Transcribed by Eloine Chesnut. See profile of William Gardner for full text. "Albert BRUNSON, father of Mrs. GARDNER, was a veteran of the Civil war having served in Company B of the 138th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and years afterward served for some time as justice of the peace and for Jackson township. He was born in Montgomery county Ohio. in 1845 and was the eldest of the six children born to Timothy and Sarah ( JONES ) BRUNSON, the former of whom was born in the vicinity of Utica, N. Y., in 1814, and died in Jay county in 1870 having settled in Jackson township, this county, upon coming over here from Montgomery county, Ohio, in 1857. Albert BRUNSON was thus twelve years of age when he became a resident of Jay county, and he grew up here. As noted above, it was not long after the completion of his military service during the Civil war that he married Minerva ROONEY, who was born in Clinton county, Ohio, but who had come over into Indiana with her parents, James and Rebecca ( MURPHY ) ROONEY, when seventeen years of age, the family settling in this county, where her parents spent their last days. Though he started farming on a small tract of uncleared land, Albert BRUNSON was a good manager and presently became the owner of a well cultivated place of 320 acres, and on this place he spent his last days, his death occurring on July 6, 1920, he then being in his sixty-fifth year. He and his wife were the parents of five children, of whom Mrs. GARDNER was
the eldest, the others being Burton, Harry, Essie and Jennie."
1861-1865 MILITARY: Served in Company B of the 138th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. SOURCE: Milton T. Jay, M.D., History of Jay County Indiana, Historical Publishing Co., Indpls. 1922, Vol. II, p324.
About 1865 MARRIAGE: "As noted above, it was not long after the completion of his military service during the Civil war that he married Minerva ROONEY." SOURCE: Milton T. Jay, M.D., History of Jay County Indiana, Historical Publishing Co., Indpls. 1922, Vol. II, p324.
1889 : Lewis Publishing Co., Biographical and Historical Record of Jay County, Indiana, 1889. p189. Refers to land owned by him in Jackson Twp.
1920 DEATH: Georgetta Williams Strait, "Brunson Family" (nine pages, handwritten), 29 Dec 1938. p1. Photocopy owned by John Marc Wheat. States he died 6 Jul 1920, not 16 July 1920.
!SOURCE: Edith Buelah Brunson Gillette, through Jeri Hinton, 1120 Alger Ave., Cody, Wy 82414, 307-587-3113. "Information sent by Bernice Rigby Brunson, from Bible handed down in the Burton Brunson family. Burton was a son of Albert."
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