Caroline KLUMPP Brunner was a quiet, home loving woman, but she has known adventures, too. She was born in Germany and came with her family to this country when she was nine years old. Several families of their neighbors came at the same time, and they all had their food supplies with them.
The boat trip was very, very long in those days, and they were all so anxious to get to America that one day some of them thought they saw land and in their excitement they threw their remaining food overboard. As it happened, they had to wait several days to "see land", and Mrs. Brunner says she will remember how her mother divided their own provisions with less prudent ones.
Their destination was a little community in Brown county called Arnheim, (Arn's home) which had been settled by some of their friends from the "old country."
These people were industrious, kindly, hard-working folk and these traits are part of Mrs. Brunner's characteristics. She was married at the age of 22 in 1858, and the family home being erected shortly before the Civil War. It is a two-story brick on the east side of the public square in Georgetown and was built by her husband so that only one family has occupied it during the 73 years she lived there. She went to housekkeeping in the house, in which she died.
Mrs. Brunner was the mother of nine children. During her lifetime, Mrs. Brunner witnessed the development of Georgetown from a comparatively small village. She saw the first railroad come and go, watched the erection of the Brown County courthouse, the disasterous fire which wiped out the Bienh Hotel and other local buildings, the establishment of the first newspaper, shoe factory, and flour mill, and the erection of the present school buildings. She saw the first electric light used, the first automobile and telephone, the first radio and phonograph, and countless other developments of the community.
One of the exciting times in Mrs. Brunner's life was when Morgan's men came through Georgetown during the Civil War. Some of them entered her home and asked her small son where his father was. The child innocently replied tht he had gone to Ripley to fight the rebels (Mr. Brunner was one of the "Squirrel Hunters" who tried to check the Morgan raiders). The men evidently saw how frightened Mrs. Brunner was and assured her that she wold not be harmed. However, they took her jewelry (a breastpin) and went into her husband's shoe shop and helped themselves to new boots and harness leather.
In spite of her advanced years, Mrs. Brunner declined to live with any of her children--she had been a widow of many years--preferring to keep the home which she has been so long accustomed. Her daughter, Mrs. Nellie (Frank) Roth, is a daily visitor and assisted her mother with her housework.
Old age is exemplified in Mrs. Brunner, has a serenity and charm that is truly lovely -- Ruth Windslow Gordon
Funeral services were held at the Spencer Funeral Home on North Main Street with Rev. Vernon P. Martin of the Presbyterian church officiating. Burial followed in the Confidence Cemetery.
The boat trip was very, very long in those days, and they were all so anxious to get to America that one day some of them thought they saw land and in their excitement they threw their remaining food overboard. As it happened, they had to wait several days to "see land", and Mrs. Brunner says she will remember how her mother divided their own provisions with less prudent ones.
Their destination was a little community in Brown county called Arnheim, (Arn's home) which had been settled by some of their friends from the "old country."
These people were industrious, kindly, hard-working folk and these traits are part of Mrs. Brunner's characteristics. She was married at the age of 22 in 1858, and the family home being erected shortly before the Civil War. It is a two-story brick on the east side of the public square in Georgetown and was built by her husband so that only one family has occupied it during the 73 years she lived there. She went to housekkeeping in the house, in which she died.
Mrs. Brunner was the mother of nine children. During her lifetime, Mrs. Brunner witnessed the development of Georgetown from a comparatively small village. She saw the first railroad come and go, watched the erection of the Brown County courthouse, the disasterous fire which wiped out the Bienh Hotel and other local buildings, the establishment of the first newspaper, shoe factory, and flour mill, and the erection of the present school buildings. She saw the first electric light used, the first automobile and telephone, the first radio and phonograph, and countless other developments of the community.
One of the exciting times in Mrs. Brunner's life was when Morgan's men came through Georgetown during the Civil War. Some of them entered her home and asked her small son where his father was. The child innocently replied tht he had gone to Ripley to fight the rebels (Mr. Brunner was one of the "Squirrel Hunters" who tried to check the Morgan raiders). The men evidently saw how frightened Mrs. Brunner was and assured her that she wold not be harmed. However, they took her jewelry (a breastpin) and went into her husband's shoe shop and helped themselves to new boots and harness leather.
In spite of her advanced years, Mrs. Brunner declined to live with any of her children--she had been a widow of many years--preferring to keep the home which she has been so long accustomed. Her daughter, Mrs. Nellie (Frank) Roth, is a daily visitor and assisted her mother with her housework.
Old age is exemplified in Mrs. Brunner, has a serenity and charm that is truly lovely -- Ruth Windslow Gordon
Funeral services were held at the Spencer Funeral Home on North Main Street with Rev. Vernon P. Martin of the Presbyterian church officiating. Burial followed in the Confidence Cemetery.
Caroline KLUMPP Brunner was a quiet, home loving woman, but she has known adventures, too. She was born in Germany and came with her family to this country when she was nine years old. Several families of their neighbors came at the same time, and they all had their food supplies with them.
The boat trip was very, very long in those days, and they were all so anxious to get to America that one day some of them thought they saw land and in their excitement they threw their remaining food overboard. As it happened, they had to wait several days to "see land", and Mrs. Brunner says she will remember how her mother divided their own provisions with less prudent ones.
Their destination was a little community in Brown county called Arnheim, (Arn's home) which had been settled by some of their friends from the "old country."
These people were industrious, kindly, hard-working folk and these traits are part of Mrs. Brunner's characteristics. She was married at the age of 22 in 1858, and the family home being erected shortly before the Civil War. It is a two-story brick on the east side of the public square in Georgetown and was built by her husband so that only one family has occupied it during the 73 years she lived there. She went to housekkeeping in the house, in which she died.
Mrs. Brunner was the mother of nine children. During her lifetime, Mrs. Brunner witnessed the development of Georgetown from a comparatively small village. She saw the first railroad come and go, watched the erection of the Brown County courthouse, the disasterous fire which wiped out the Bienh Hotel and other local buildings, the establishment of the first newspaper, shoe factory, and flour mill, and the erection of the present school buildings. She saw the first electric light used, the first automobile and telephone, the first radio and phonograph, and countless other developments of the community.
One of the exciting times in Mrs. Brunner's life was when Morgan's men came through Georgetown during the Civil War. Some of them entered her home and asked her small son where his father was. The child innocently replied tht he had gone to Ripley to fight the rebels (Mr. Brunner was one of the "Squirrel Hunters" who tried to check the Morgan raiders). The men evidently saw how frightened Mrs. Brunner was and assured her that she wold not be harmed. However, they took her jewelry (a breastpin) and went into her husband's shoe shop and helped themselves to new boots and harness leather.
In spite of her advanced years, Mrs. Brunner declined to live with any of her children--she had been a widow of many years--preferring to keep the home which she has been so long accustomed. Her daughter, Mrs. Nellie (Frank) Roth, is a daily visitor and assisted her mother with her housework.
Old age is exemplified in Mrs. Brunner, has a serenity and charm that is truly lovely -- Ruth Windslow Gordon
Funeral services were held at the Spencer Funeral Home on North Main Street with Rev. Vernon P. Martin of the Presbyterian church officiating. Burial followed in the Confidence Cemetery.
The boat trip was very, very long in those days, and they were all so anxious to get to America that one day some of them thought they saw land and in their excitement they threw their remaining food overboard. As it happened, they had to wait several days to "see land", and Mrs. Brunner says she will remember how her mother divided their own provisions with less prudent ones.
Their destination was a little community in Brown county called Arnheim, (Arn's home) which had been settled by some of their friends from the "old country."
These people were industrious, kindly, hard-working folk and these traits are part of Mrs. Brunner's characteristics. She was married at the age of 22 in 1858, and the family home being erected shortly before the Civil War. It is a two-story brick on the east side of the public square in Georgetown and was built by her husband so that only one family has occupied it during the 73 years she lived there. She went to housekkeeping in the house, in which she died.
Mrs. Brunner was the mother of nine children. During her lifetime, Mrs. Brunner witnessed the development of Georgetown from a comparatively small village. She saw the first railroad come and go, watched the erection of the Brown County courthouse, the disasterous fire which wiped out the Bienh Hotel and other local buildings, the establishment of the first newspaper, shoe factory, and flour mill, and the erection of the present school buildings. She saw the first electric light used, the first automobile and telephone, the first radio and phonograph, and countless other developments of the community.
One of the exciting times in Mrs. Brunner's life was when Morgan's men came through Georgetown during the Civil War. Some of them entered her home and asked her small son where his father was. The child innocently replied tht he had gone to Ripley to fight the rebels (Mr. Brunner was one of the "Squirrel Hunters" who tried to check the Morgan raiders). The men evidently saw how frightened Mrs. Brunner was and assured her that she wold not be harmed. However, they took her jewelry (a breastpin) and went into her husband's shoe shop and helped themselves to new boots and harness leather.
In spite of her advanced years, Mrs. Brunner declined to live with any of her children--she had been a widow of many years--preferring to keep the home which she has been so long accustomed. Her daughter, Mrs. Nellie (Frank) Roth, is a daily visitor and assisted her mother with her housework.
Old age is exemplified in Mrs. Brunner, has a serenity and charm that is truly lovely -- Ruth Windslow Gordon
Funeral services were held at the Spencer Funeral Home on North Main Street with Rev. Vernon P. Martin of the Presbyterian church officiating. Burial followed in the Confidence Cemetery.
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