EDWARD T. BRUNER

(From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, pages 880-881)
Transcribed by Kris Breid, 17 December 2005

EDWARD T. BRUNER, farmer. In the fall of 1818, Mr. Bruner’s parents, both then in the morning of life and unmarried, came to this State from Winchester, Kentucky, the mother with her father’s family, and settled in the Boone’s Lick country, as the Missouri river region of the interior of the State was then called. They were married at a fort in Howard county in 1821, and the following year came to Callaway county and settled at Cedar. But in 1825 they moved to Fulton, and after a four years’ residence there settled down permanently on Miller’s creek. There the father, Stephen Bruner, lived and conducted a tan-yard, which he had made, until his death, which occurred n 1838. He had been a soldier in the War of 1812, and had taken part in several Indian wars in Kentucky. He was a brave, generous-hearted pioneer and soldier, and his name is well worthy of remembrance. He left a family of nine children: John W., James M., Mary E., Jacob P., George W., Edward T. (the present subject), Joseph, now deceased, and Robert S., killed a few years ago by a saw mill explosion. The mother afterwards married Stephen N. King, and died November 22, 1878, at the house of her son, the subject of the present sketch, after a residence in this State of over sixty years. By her last marriage there were two children, one of whom is living, Marcus L. King, of Audrain county. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Strode, and she was a daughter of Stephen Strode, the noted Indian fighter of Kentucky, and afterwards of this State. He was captured by the Indians, at the battle of River Raisen, Kentucky, under General Winchester, with a company of British, the savages having promised them protection if they would surrender. But when they were once disarmed their treacherous captors began to shoot them down, and young Strode would have also been killed but for the interference of a chief who admired him for his coolness and bravery, and saved his life. As he mounted a stump and crowed like a chicken, the chief told him to “chicken again white man, you are too brave a man to die.” Later he also was a soldier in the War of 1812.

Mr. Edward T. Bruner was born September 18, 1833, was reared in this county on a farm, and has made farming his life occupation. He has a neat, comfortable place of 120 acres, and has it fairly improved. He also raises some stock. On the 11th of March, 1858, he was married to Miss Carrie C., daughter of Samuel C. and Nancy (Crews) Woods, formerly of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. B. have twelve children: Sallie W., James E., John S., Addie L., William A., Lola, Carlotta, Elsie W., Thomas K., George E., Myrtle and Eva. Robert L., the second child, is deceased. The third day after their marriage, on the 14th of March, 1858, Mr. and Mrs. Bruner were immersed by A. B. Jones, by whom they were married, as members of the Christian church, and for the succeeding twenty-five years they have been faithful and exemplary followers of the cross. Maple Grove church is located on his farm, a neat frame building erected in 1883.

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