Iowa Family Group Sheet for the Christian BRUMM Family

Submitted by: Richard A. Reed 


HUSBAND: Christian BRUMM
Birth date: 1 October 1813
Birthplace: Nisbill, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Germany)
Death date: 16 October 1890
Place of death: Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A.
Burial date:
Burial place: Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A.
Other Spouse:
Father:
Mother:

Marriage date:
Marriage place: Probably Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Germany)

WIFE: Elizabeth UNKNOWN
Birth date: 3 October 1807
Birthplace: Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Germany)
Death date: 12 May 1882
Place of death: Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A.
Burial date:
Burial place: Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A.
Other Spouse:
Father:
Mother:


CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Mary Fredricka BRUMM
Sex: F
Birth date: 15 May 1845
Birthplace: Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Germany)
Death date: 3 October 1906
Place of death: Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A.
Burial date:
Burial place: Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A.
Spouse's name: Matthias HOEFFLIN, Jr.
Marriage date: 1869
Marriage place: Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A.

Child No. 2: Sophia BRUMM
Sex: F
Birth date: August 1848
Birthplace: Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Germany)
Death date: 15 August 1923
Place of death: Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A.
Burial date:
Burial place:
Spouse's name: Heinrich G. SANDERS
Marriage date: 10 April 1867
Marriage place: Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A.



Documentation and Sources:
1819 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census has Christian living in Pennewitt, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.  Date and place of birth are sourced here.  Line above lists a Johan BRUMM, born 1807, who might be an older brother.  See Ancestry.com. Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, Census, 1819 [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007.

Daughters, Sophia and Mary, report the arrival date as 1853 or 1854 in later census records.  See Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA; Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2004.

Residence in Buffalo, New York, 1853 – 1855.  Mary Fredricka (BRUMM) HOEFFLIN’s obituary in the Muscatine Journal reports that her family lived in Buffalo, Erie County, New York for two years after their arrival, and that they then moved to Muscatine, Muscatine, Iowa.

1859 Muscatine City Directory lists Christian as a Carpenter living in Muscatine.  See http://iagenweb.org/muscatine/atlas/citydir1859.htm. William’s Muscatine Directory, City Guide and Business Mirror, Volume 1, 1859-60, R.M. Burnett, Muscatine, Iowa, USA, 1859.  Transcribed by Debbie Clough Gerischer.

Christian was naturalized a United States citizen on 15 October 1860, residence at the time was Muscatine, Iowa.  See Ancestry.com.  U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791 – 1992 (indexed in World Archives Project) [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2010.

1870 United States Federal Census shows Christian BRUMM, husband of Elizabeth BRUMM, living in Muscatine Ward 1, Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A., age 56, born in Mecklenburg.  Others in household were daughter Mary Fredricka HOEFFLIN, son-in-law, Matthias HOEFFLIN and a granddaughter, M. HOEFFLIN. See Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA; Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2009.

1880 Federal Tax Schedule shows him living in Lake Township, Muscatine County, Iowa, U.S.A.  See Ancestry.com. Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880 [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

1885 Iowa State Census has Christian, birth year 1813 living alone in Muscatine, Iowa.  See Ancestry.com. Iowa State C Census Collection, 1836-1925 [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA; Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007.

Death date is recorded in Matthias HOEFFLIN Family Bible as:  Grandfather BRUMM died Oct 16, 1890 77 yrs.  See Matthias HOEFFLIN Family Bible original in possession of Charles HOEFFLIN and a page photo copy hosted by Ancestry.com at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~guiffre/HEFLIN/docs/bible/Mathias/HOEFFLIN1.jpg.

Burial data for for Christian and Elizabeth BRUMM is drawn from the Work Progress Administration (WPA), Historical Records Survey (HRS) Iowa Graves Survey 1935 - 1941, contained in an on-line database at:  http://iowawpagraves.org/.  Christian’s data is found at:  http://iowawpagraves.org/view.php?id=354157.  Some of the data was incorrectly transcribed by the WPA.  Elizabeth's data is found at http://iowawpagraves.org/view.php?id=354158.


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