Long story short is I began to look more at the Brandenburg's of Warren County Ohio. I came across a site that suggested some uncertainty of who the father of Henry H Brandenburg really was. Before in my research I had coupled my 4th great granddad Henry Harrison Brandenburg to an Aaron Brandenburg. Here is a link that is for the Brandenburg name. I have learned that German names stem from the region they came from. I have not made any connections between us, though. I don't know if you noticed, but there are a lot of Brandenburgs who settled in Ohio, also. Warning it may be a little shocking (it was for me) I've been trying to research my ancestors for years. When I first started hanging out in the MDS forum, your name caught my eye. I guess this is my opportunity for confession. For all I know he ventured out on the Oregon Trail and ended up there. His roots tied back to the same ancestors to which I believe I came from. One fella I found buried in Oregon in the 19th century. Yes I was finding some of my ancestors of mine with roots in Ohio. I was wondering what you were up to when you gave me a "like" over in the genealogy forum. I doubt I'll get to post any of those stories with all of you though. Hopefully I can talk to all these fathers of mine when I get to where they are, as I'd love to hear their stories. I'll be 80 years old then and really only God knows when for sure when he's done with me on earth, so we'll see?. At that point a thought came to my mind and it was, this isn't my room number, but this is the year I die. The first thought I had was wow it's a luxury room and I don't get these kind of expensive rooms on the road. Once I traveled all the elevators and stairways to the room I was given, I put the key in the door and opened the room. In the dream I thought this ain't no Super 8 with that many rooms. I had a dream once that I was at a motel and was to stay in room 2038. 1994 after a day of fishing with his buddy Loyd at Lake Rathbun, Iowa, buried in Ankeny, IAĨ) Then Me Grant Charles Brandenburg b. IA (I remember grandpa some & his funeral I do recall)ħ) Bill Charles Brandenburg My Dad b. 1874 Liberty, Union Co, INĤ) Henry Jackson Brandenburg b. ![]() 1825 Liberty, Union Co, INģ) Henry Harrison Brandenburg b. 1796 Frederick Co, MDĢ) Aaron ? Brandenburg b. This is the lineage I believe I came from by father to son:ġ) Wilhelm Heinrich Brandenburg b. It seems as soon as the first Brandenburg's got settled in the area of Frederick, County Maryland and had a lot of children they struck out from there on the Cumberland road and headed as far west as they could looking for more land to farm. Looking online at various grave and ancestry website I believe I've taken my father to sons lineage to the first Brandenburg to arrive in America from Germany back in the 1st half of the 18th century. Hopefully the future people of this country will never loose this idea of a free America. To me it said we Germans and along with others, who came to country long ago have been and will be nothing, but true red blooded free Americans now and for evermore. ![]() The cemetery is very well kept and as I left I saw 2 Bald eagles in a cornfield. This little trip to the cemetery took me around 50 miles off my trip home and the grave-site is close to the little almost deserted town of Fairfield, Nebraska about 3 miles on a dirt road from there. ![]() Their names were Henry Jackson and Lydia Brandenburg and they came to Nebraska from Liberty, Union County, Indiana in around the mid 19th century? So on my way home from Iowa across Nebraska I thought I'd just go visit my my grandpa's parents grave. As I went through all the photos of our family and other documents I came across my dads birth certificate and notice his dad and my grandpa, who I do remember some was born a farmer in Fairfield, Nebraska. ![]() It took most the week and several trips to the thrift store to clean the place out. My mother had kept all kinds of stuff like her dads military discharge papers from 1918 to just about every birthday, Christmas and valentines card going back to her childhood to the 1930s. Week before last me and my sister had to clean out our 93 yr mothers apartment in Iowa as she is now in need of more full time care.
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