tamrock
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Week before last me and my sister had to clean out our 93 yr mothers apartment in Iowa as she is now in need of more full time care. My mother had kept all kinds of stuff like her dads military discharge papers from 1918 to just about every birthday, Christmas and valentines card going back to her childhood to the 1930s. It took most the week and several trips to the thrift store to clean the place out. As I went through all the photos of our family and other documents I came across my dads birth certificate and notice his dad and my grandpa, who I do remember some was born a farmer in Fairfield, Nebraska. So on my way home from Iowa across Nebraska I thought I'd just go visit my my grandpa's parents grave. Their names were Henry Jackson and Lydia [Templeton] Brandenburg and they came to Nebraska from Liberty, Union County, Indiana in around the mid 19th century?
This little trip to the cemetery took me around 50 miles off my trip home and the grave-site is close to the little almost deserted town of Fairfield, Nebraska about 3 miles on a dirt road from there. The cemetery is very well kept and as I left I saw 2 Bald eagles in a cornfield. To me it said we Germans and along with others, who came to country long ago have been and will be nothing, but true red blooded free Americans now and for evermore. Hopefully the future people of this country will never loose this idea of a free America... God help them if they do.
Looking online at various grave and ancestry website I believe I've taken my father to sons lineage to the first Brandenburg to arrive in America from Germany back in the 1st half of the 18th century. It seems as soon as the first Brandenburg's got settled in the area of Frederick, County Maryland and had a lot of children they struck out from there on the Cumberland road and headed as far west as they could looking for more land to farm.
This is the lineage I believe I came from by father to son:
1) Wilhelm Heinrich Brandenburg b. 1722 Germany d. 1796 Frederick Co, MD
2) Aaron ? Brandenburg b. 1761 Middletown, MD d. 1825 Liberty, Union Co, IN
3) Henry Harrison Brandenburg b. 1786 Somerset Co. PA d. 1874 Liberty, Union Co, IN
4) Henry Jackson Brandenburg b. 1827 Liberty, Union Co. IN d. 1902 Deweese, Clay Co. NE
5) Rufus King Brandenburg b. 1854 Liberty, Union Co. IN d. 1919 Stuart, Guthrie Co. IA
6) Ira ? Brandenburg b. 1892 Deweese, Clay Co. NE d. 1963 Des Moines, Polk Co. IA (I remember grandpa some & his funeral I do recall)
7) Bill Charles Brandenburg My Dad b. 1926 Stuart, Guthrie Co. IA d. 1994 after a day of fishing with his buddy Loyd at Lake Rathbun, Iowa, buried in Ankeny, IA
8) Then Me Grant Charles Brandenburg b. 1956 Minneapolis Minnesota. I had a dream once that I was at a motel and was to stay in room 2038. In the dream I thought this ain't no Super 8 with that many rooms. Once I traveled all the elevators and stairways to the room I was given, I put the key in the door and opened the room. The first thought I had was wow it's a luxury room and I don't get these kind of expensive rooms on the road. At that point a thought came to my mind and it was, this isn't my room number, but this is the year I die. I'll be 80 years old then and really only God knows when for sure when he's done with me on earth, so we'll see?. Hopefully I can talk to all these fathers of mine when I get to where they are, as I'd love to hear their stories. I doubt I'll get to post any of those stories with all of you though.
This little trip to the cemetery took me around 50 miles off my trip home and the grave-site is close to the little almost deserted town of Fairfield, Nebraska about 3 miles on a dirt road from there. The cemetery is very well kept and as I left I saw 2 Bald eagles in a cornfield. To me it said we Germans and along with others, who came to country long ago have been and will be nothing, but true red blooded free Americans now and for evermore. Hopefully the future people of this country will never loose this idea of a free America... God help them if they do.
Looking online at various grave and ancestry website I believe I've taken my father to sons lineage to the first Brandenburg to arrive in America from Germany back in the 1st half of the 18th century. It seems as soon as the first Brandenburg's got settled in the area of Frederick, County Maryland and had a lot of children they struck out from there on the Cumberland road and headed as far west as they could looking for more land to farm.
This is the lineage I believe I came from by father to son:
1) Wilhelm Heinrich Brandenburg b. 1722 Germany d. 1796 Frederick Co, MD
2) Aaron ? Brandenburg b. 1761 Middletown, MD d. 1825 Liberty, Union Co, IN
3) Henry Harrison Brandenburg b. 1786 Somerset Co. PA d. 1874 Liberty, Union Co, IN
4) Henry Jackson Brandenburg b. 1827 Liberty, Union Co. IN d. 1902 Deweese, Clay Co. NE
5) Rufus King Brandenburg b. 1854 Liberty, Union Co. IN d. 1919 Stuart, Guthrie Co. IA
6) Ira ? Brandenburg b. 1892 Deweese, Clay Co. NE d. 1963 Des Moines, Polk Co. IA (I remember grandpa some & his funeral I do recall)
7) Bill Charles Brandenburg My Dad b. 1926 Stuart, Guthrie Co. IA d. 1994 after a day of fishing with his buddy Loyd at Lake Rathbun, Iowa, buried in Ankeny, IA
8) Then Me Grant Charles Brandenburg b. 1956 Minneapolis Minnesota. I had a dream once that I was at a motel and was to stay in room 2038. In the dream I thought this ain't no Super 8 with that many rooms. Once I traveled all the elevators and stairways to the room I was given, I put the key in the door and opened the room. The first thought I had was wow it's a luxury room and I don't get these kind of expensive rooms on the road. At that point a thought came to my mind and it was, this isn't my room number, but this is the year I die. I'll be 80 years old then and really only God knows when for sure when he's done with me on earth, so we'll see?. Hopefully I can talk to all these fathers of mine when I get to where they are, as I'd love to hear their stories. I doubt I'll get to post any of those stories with all of you though.
