Fayette County KyArchives Cemeteries.....Branbarga/Brumbarger etc. Family Cemetery - Complete Survey ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Margaret H. Kannensohn En4cer48@aol.com January 24, 2005, 7:18 pm Abstracted By: Margaret H. Kannensohn Old Frankfort Pike (Rt. 1681)..."...a few hundred yds. before Elkchester Rd (Rt. 1969)." This is private property. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Branbarger John 10/4/1784 6/30/1868 s/o Franklin & Catherine Branbarger Sarah Cress/Guess 12/15/1795 7/3/1889 d/o V. & E. Cress/Guess Brockman Catherine Armstrong 6/29/1820 7/6/1856 w/o Wm. Brockman Downs Benjamine 1/26/1869 Age 87 h/o Elizabeth 'Brimbarger' Branbarger Downs Elizabeth 1789 6/9/1844 w/o Benjamin Downs Downs William H. 1816 1859 Miller George H. 6/24/1826 12/10/1895 h/o Sarah Downs Miller Sarah M. Downs 8/11/1828 11/2/1887 w/o Geo. H. Miller Additional Comments: This family surname might qualify in genealogical annals for "most impossible to determine spelling." The name of this family has been spelled in many ways: "Branbarga" (the name as inscribed on a large (apparently new) stone noted by Mrs. Ella Ritchey Flynn in her 1992 survey; "Brumbarger" (as enumerated in the 1820 and 1830 Fayette County federal censuses); "Brimbarger" (as recorded in county records of the marriage of Elizabeth to Benjamin Downs on 12 April 1813 -- with Frederick Brimbarger serving as bond and John & Catherine Brimbarger witnesses); "Brumberger" as Frederick was enumerated in the 1810 county federal census; "Bomberger", as John is listed in the 1838/9 city directory. Finally "Brumbarger" or Ramsey Lane as recited in a 1941 deed and "Bromberger" Lane as noted in a 1962 deed (DB 751-110), and "Bronboyer/Bromboyer" as spelled in the 1850 federal census. Whatever the proper surname spelling: John was the s/o Franklin & Catherine, and the Benjamin Downs, above, who married Elizabeth was a near neighbor who in 1838 owned 200 acres of land on Old Frankfort Rd one mi. closer to town. In Feb. 1869, the year after John died (DB 47-68), Elizabeth Downs was one of the persons to whom the land devolved via Commissioner deed. Catherine Brockman's marriage to John Brockman was her second; at the time of their marriage she was the widow of one Armstrong, and she well may have been a "Branbarga" daughter. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/fayette/cemeteries/ncm19branbarg.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/kyfiles/