Brunner, Jacob – 1838-1920

ASHER, BRUNNER, HERWAY, HERWEH, THOMPSON, ZIKE

Posted By: JCGS Volunteer
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:27

Jacob Brunner Dies Thursday
Well Known Newton Man Answers Call at Home in This City – Was Veteran of the Civil War.
Jacob Brunner, aged nearly 82, a veteran of the Civil War, died at his home, 311 Fourth street Northeast at 2:20 on Thursday afternoon, April 15, 1920. He had been failing the past two years and confined to his home for about two months.
Jacob Brunner was born in Baden Baden, Germany, September 9, 1838. In 1846, when he was about eight years old, he came with his parents and family to America. They came in a sail ship and were on the ocean seventy-two days.
They came directly to Iowa, and settled on a farm near where Prairie City is now located, where his youth and young manhood were all spent.
In 1861 he enlisted for the Civil war and served more than three years as a soldier in Company E, 14th Iowa, participating in many of the hardest battles of the war, including Fort Donaldson, Shiloh, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, etc. At Shiloh he was taken prisoner, and for two months was confined in the prison pen at Macon, Georgia. At the end of the war he was discharged and returned home.
On the 9th of March, 1865 he was united in marriage with Mrs. Rachel M. Asher of near Prairie City. To them were born five daughters and three sons, of whom four are living, vis: Stephen Brunner, Norfolk, Nebraska; Jacob C Brunner of Indianola; Mrs. Catherine Zike and Mrs. Sadie Thompson, both of Newton, and who reside with their aged mother.
Mr. Brunner is survived by two brothers and two sisters, vis: Henry Brunner, Prairie City, J. P. Brunner, Newton, Miss Hannah Brunner, of Prairie City, Mrs. Margaret Herway of Letcher, South Dakota. There are also nine grandchildren. One step-son, William Asher, lives in Enkalaka(?), Montana.
In 1900, Mr. and Mrs. Brunner moved from Prairie City to Newton. Both have been members of the Free Methodist church for many years.
Brief funeral services will be held at the home at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon and on Sunday morning the body will be taken to Prairie City, where services will be held in the Methodist church at 10:30 o’clock.
Source: Newton Daily News; April 16, 1920, page 1