Philenon Bromeling's obituary, Eaton Rapids, Eaton County, Michigan
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SUBJECT: Philenon K. BROMELING
SUBMITTER: Jan Lubitz Sedore
EMAIL: am0773@a1access.net
DATE: Jul 24, 1999
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SURNAMES: BROMELING, MUNGER, TERRYLL, KELSEY
THE EATON RAPIDS JOURNAL
April 10, 1914
P. K. BROMELING DEAD
ANSWERS DEATH SUMMENS AFTER ONG PERIOD OF POOR HEALTH

P. K. Bromeling, for half a century a resident of Eaton Rapids township,
died at a late hour last Sunday night, aged seventy-seven years. The funeral
took place from the house Wednesday forenoon with burial in the Munger
cemetery.

Mr. Bromeling, who had resided fifty years on the farm on the Lansing road,
where he answered the death summons after a life of usefulness that endeared
him to the hearts of all who knew him. He was born at Morristown, N.Y.,
November 21, 1836, and in 1854 commenced sailing on the great lakes, following
this occupation will the breaking out of the civil war, when he resigned
his position as first mate and enlisted in a company regulars at Cleveland.
He served three years and six months, during which he took part in twenty-six
engagements and was wounded three times, once while attempting to escape
from Andersonville prison. During his soldier life he suffered the hardships
of imprisonment in Libby, Saulsbury, Belle Island and Andersonville prison
pens, but came through it all and lived to enjoy nearly fifty years of
the principles for which he fought on southern battlefields.

In 1865 he was united in marriage to Miss Delia Munger, who died in 1898,
and a few years later married Mary Terryll, who survives him. He is also
survived by one brother, George Bromeling, of Marshall and a sister Mrs
J. E. Kelsey, of Jackson.