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From: "Dana Brown" <>
Subject: Re: [KYBRECKI] 7/4/2006 GenWeb Archives additions/updates
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 23:43:19 -0400
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Hi there Billie...

Actually, I purposely set up the Bruner cemetery page that way. It saved on
time building a page per cemetery, and since Bruner #2, #4, and #5 were all
related (all stemming from Abraham and Nancy Penick Bruner's lines), it just
seemed logical at the time. It was some months later that I was able to go
with my cousins to the Bruner #3, which on the website is listed on a
separate page. Thanks for the heads up, though. I appreciate it.

On the, what I call "mid-century" markers, yes, they are there in the
various cemeteries. With over 600 cemeteries in Breckinridge County, it's a
little hard to get to them all. It seems that whenever someone died, they
were buried either in the "family cemetery", the "town cemetery", or on the
"family farm". I good example is Abraham and Nancy Penick Bruner. They and
several of their children, grandchildren, and a couple great-grandchildren
are buried at Bruner #5. While it is at the corner of Garfield-Woodrow Rd.
and Arthur Carman Rd., you have to go through a field/pasture to get to the
ridge it's on. Two of my cousins and I trekked it two summers ago when the
bull grass was as wide as your thumb and at least 5' tall. It took us 3
hrs. to walk less than a city block to the top of the ridge, take about 8
pictures, and walk back. Heheheheee... of course we didn't count on the bog
we found being in the middle of the trek up or back. Well, from this
cemetery, if you travel about 2 miles or so south on Garfield-Woodrow Rd.,
you come across the Abram Ackley Bruner cemetery. Abram/Abraham owned this
particular land (Herman Bruner, his direct descendant owns this piece of
land now) and buried his direct lines... two wives, some kids and grandkids.
Why did he not go about 2 miles up the road to where his parents are buried?
That's a question I don't know. He may not have wanted to, or the
weather/elements may have made it such that burying on the family farm was
much easier. Yet, Abram's brother (my direct ancestor) Thomas Jefferson
"Jefferson" is buried abt. 8-10 miles away on the southwest side of Custer
off of Hwy. 690. We had to trek a mile off the road, but once we got back
there, only Jefferson and his wife Charlotte are buried there... as is
several of their sons, but no wives and no grandchildren. I know that land
transferred down into Bruner hands and then the bloodlines aspect of the
Bruner lines (even though the surname changed), but in taking a trek around
the entire land, we could see where it was very likely that two houses once
occupied the land. But to say who lived in them... we don't know at
present. Oh... and in the Bruner Cemetery #3 that I just described above,
it was the family farm at one point.

I guess in writing all the above, it was to show a couple of points that
I've seen in Breck. Co. Usually they buried their dead close by, and
families were pretty much buried together if in a big cemetery. I wonder if
one of the reasons you haven't found markers is due to the Civil War, or
lack of monetary funds to purchase one. I've found some of my family
without markers due to the lack of funds. So that might be a possibility.
I'm finding out in researching Breck. Co. .... anything goes, and nothing
surprises me anymore.

What family are you looking for? I don't know if I can help, but maybe I
can check into a few things and see what comes up.

Dana

----- Original Message -----
From: Billie Erin Walsh <>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [KYBRECKI] 7/4/2006 GenWeb Archives additions/updates


> Couple things.
>
> On the tombstone photo cemetery listing page. All the Bruner links point
> to the same page. Thought you would like to know if they aren't supposed
to.
>
> As I was cruising through all the listings. It struck me that the vast
> majority of the dates of death were after 1900. A few did have older
> dates, but very few. I know there were people living and dieing around
> there from sometime before 1800. Did they just plant them out in the
> back field with no records. Don't get me wrong. I know that in various
> places and times that wasn't all that uncommon a practice. The gravesite
> was known for a couple generations then lost to posterity.
>
> The reason I'm curious about this is that I'm trying to find "any"
> information on possible family in that area. The deaths of those I'm
> most interested in would have been between 1850 and about 1900. The
> higher date is rather pushing it. They would have been somewhere around
> Hardinsburg so I would think they would have been buried somewhere close
by.
>
> I was talking to the lady at the oldest cemetery in Enid Oklahoma, where
> I come from, about locating someone. She told me that there are dozens,
> possibly hundreds, of unknown/un-marked graves in that cemetery.
> Sometimes they sell a plot and when the time comes to open it there is
> already someone there. In older times record keeping could be rather
> .......... sloppy.
>
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