Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Daniel Lanning Bruner

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Daniel Lanning Bruner, a well-to-do farmer and stock raiser of Benton County, Ark., was born in
Monroe County, Ind., August 1, 1841, and is a son of Elias and Matilda (Williams) Bruner, and
grandson of Jacob Bruner. The latter was born in Germany, and was a hatter by trade, but also
owned and managed a farm. Ehas Bruner was born in Shenandoah County, Va., in 1797, and, like his
father, was a farmer and hatter by occupation. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and died in Benton County, Ark., April 10, 1871. His wife was born in Tennessee in 1807,
and died in Benton County, Ark., October 25, 1874. Daniel Lanning Bruner was taken to Cumberland
County, Ill., at the age of nine years, and the next year was removed to Cole County. He was
taken to Texas in 1853, and was there reared to manhood. All the schooling he received was
obtained while he was a small boy in Indiana and Illinois, reading and writing being the extent
of his scholastic attainments. Since that time he has improved his education very much by private
study, and he is an extensive and thoughtful reader. He located in Benton County, Ark., in 1868,
and was here married two years later to Miss Penelope Litteral, who was born in Tennessee in
October, 1843, a daughter of James Litteral, a farmer. In March, 1862, Mr. Bruner enlisted in the
Confederate army, in Company I. Fifteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry, and served until the
cessation of hostilities. He was in a number of hotly contested battles, but was never wounded.
He was sergeant of his company, and after the war returned home, broken down in health from
hardships and exposure. By industry and good management be is now the owner of a good farm of 120
acres. He is a Master Mason, and he and family worship in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
His children were as follows: Mary Ellen, James B., Lucinda E., Walter Lee, Cora Edna, Renmira
and Daniel Clinton; the latter of whom died September 18, 1888.