Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Bramble, William 1800 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com November 18, 2005, 11:52 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. WILLIAM BRAMBLE, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born June 14, 1800, in Delaware, and is a son of Charles and Lavinia (Layton) Bramble, who emigrated to Ohio in 1804. Our subject was married, March 13, 1828, to Nancy, the daughter of George Emery. The union resulted in nine children, three boys living-Alford, Charles and William. Mrs. Bramble died, and in July, 1858, Mr. Bramble formed a second union with Minerva, widow of Robert Wilson, and a daughter of Benjamin and Susan (Wakelee) Johnson, the former a native of New York and the latter a descendant of the Puritans. Mrs. Bramble came to Ohio in 1834, and by her first husband had four children, viz., Susan W., Delia E., Sofronia J. and Mary M., deceased. By his second union Mr. Bramble has had but one chill, Eunice, born July 31, 1860, died at the age of two years and two months, from the effects of a scald. In 1865, Mr. Bramble went to New Jersey, where he spent two years, and then went to Maryland, where he remained nine years, after which he came to Hardin County. Two of Mr. Bramble's sons were in the late war, and the youngest child of his wife by her first marriage was wounded in that war and taken prisoner at Knoxville, where he died. Additional Comments: Dudley Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/bramble273bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb