H. Edward Bruckner Family Tree and Story
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Henry Edward Bruckner (M), Born: Prussia/German, 11/18* May 1857
Birth Name: Heinrich Eduard Micklausch (not sure on spelling of surname)
Died 19 Nov 1921*, Windsor, Weld, CO
*Family notes have his birth as 11 May and his death as 1922.
The death record has his birth as 18 May and his death as 1921.
He was always called Ed/Edward
Marriage 1: 7 Mar 1882 in Otoe, NE to Pauline Augusta Ernst (F)
Pauline was born 25 Jan 1861, Girbigsdorf, Schlesien, Prussia/Germany
Died 10 Mar 1960, Greeley, Weld, CO, she was 99
Her immigration passenger list shows her first name as
Auguste so her birth name may have been
Auguste Pauline.
She immigrated at 7 years old (May 1868) to Nebraska City, NE with:
Father - Carl Ernst (Born: abt 1823 in Girbigsdorf, Schlesien, Prussia/Germany)
Died: 1881, Nebraska City, NE
Mother - Caroline (Boehmer) Ernst (born abt 1823, place unknown)
Her immigration passenger list shows her first name as
Christine so her birth name may have been
Christine Caroline.
Died: 29 Jan 1890, Lincoln, NE
Brother - Carl Julius Ernst (Born: 12 Sep 1854 in Girbigsdorf, Schlesien, Prussia/Germany)
Carl J and Pauline Ernst were born in the same community
as H. Edward's step-father J. G. Bruckner. It is not known if there was
a family connection.
Carl Jr. married Marie Wilhelmine Weber 26 Feb 1876
Marie was born Jun 1854 and they had four
children - Louise Gertude, Conrad Walter, Flora Grace, & Paul Luther.
Children of H. Edward & Pauline (Ernst) Bruckner
(All were born in the Lincoln, Nebraska area)
Child 1: Edward (Eddie) Carl Bruckner (M), Born 1883, Died: 17 Dec 1890*, Lincoln, NE
Child 2: Anna (Annie) Marie Bruckner (F), Born: 4 Aug 1885, Died 19 Aug 1885, Lincoln, NE
Child 3: William (Willie) H Bruckner (M), Born: 1886, Died 13/30 Oct 1890*, Lincoln, NE
Child 4: Margaret Helen Bruckner (F), Born: Dec 1887, Died: 4/24 Aug 1888, Lincoln, NE
Child 5: Florenie (Flora) Gertrude Bruckner (F), Born: 21 Sep 1888,
Died: 20 Nov 1890/11 Dec 1890*, Lincoln, NE
Child 6: Paul Walter Bruckner (M), Born: 10 Feb 1890, Died, 21/22 Aug 1890*, Lincoln, NE
Child 7: Louise Caroline Bruckner (F), Born: 5 Jan 1891, Died 13 Jun 1957, Greeley, Weld, CO
Married: Lewis Clayton Albert, 28 Jun 1913, Lincoln, NE
Child 8: Frederick William Bruckner (M), Born: 2 Apr 1892, Died: 22 Nov 1951, Seattle, WA
Married: Berman Stonebraker(?), abt 1920 in CO, Born: abt 1899, Kansas
In the 1930 CO census they had two children:
Doris Bernice, Born: abt 1921, CO, Died: 30 May 2004, Milton, Santa Rosa, FL
Doris married Kenneth Herbert Curry
Donald J, Born: 31 Aug 1928, Colorado, Died: 29 Nov 2003, Eagle River, Alaska
Married: Eunice Irene Erickson, Mar 1955, Nome, Alaska
He was an Evangelical Covenant Pastor and 50-year Alaska resident.
Child 9: Johanna A Bruckner (F), Born: 14 Oct 1893, Died: unknown
Married: Rue Ervin Shinn and in 1942 they lived in Baldwin Park, CA.
He was born 27 May 1901 in AR and died 10 Apr 1978 in Porterville, Tulare, CA
Child 10: Jessie A Bruckner (M), Born: 18 Jul 1895, Died: 20 Sep 1895, Lincoln, NE
Child 11: Grace E Bruckner (F), Born 4 May 1897, Died: 6 Dec 1982, Greeley, Weld, CO
Grace never married.
Child 12: Clara (Changed name to Carmen) Bruckner, Born: 10 Jul 1898, Lincoln, NE
Married: Glenn H. Seelinger in 1918, Died: 1989, Cottonwood, Yavapai, AZ
Child 13: John Lewis Bruckner (M), Born: 12 Oct 1900, Died 25 Apr 1942, Lamar, Powers, CO
Married: Hazel Tucker. Hazel died at 104 on 3 Nov 2007
* Edward Carl, William H, Flora Gertrude, and Paul Walter
All died from Diphtheria within a four month time span in 1890.
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H. Edward (Ed) was born in Germany in 1857 to Anna Helen Micklausch (spelling of last name has not been verified). It is not known if his mother was ever married but Micklausch was probably her married name. In 1864 Ed and his mother immigrated to America and Anna married John Gottfried Bruckner in Adams County, Wisconsin. JG Bruckner's first two wives died in childbirth died. After the second wife died in 1863 he wrote back to Germany and asked for a German wife with one or more children. Mr. Bruckner was already 55 and probably wanted to be sure he had at least one child. Anna Micklausch was that wife. It is not known if JG Bruckner formally adopted Ed but Ed always used Bruckner as his last name after arriving in America. Mr. Bruckner is said to have raised him as his own son. Anna was already 37 when she got to Wisconsin but she had two children, Sam and John Lewis, after marrying JG Bruckner.
Ed's mother Anna had a cousin that lived in Nebraska. Some time prior to his step-fathers death in May of 1882 Ed moved to Nebraska. He married Pauline Ernst who was from Girbigsdorf, Germany - the same home town of Edward's step-father JG Bruckner. Anna may have also lived near Girbigsdorf. It is likely that the Bruckner and the Ernst families knew each other in German as Girbigsdorf was a small village. Anna's cousin in Nebraska may could been one of Pauline's parents (Carl & Caroline Ernst). The Ernst family first went to Wisconsin in 1868 when they immigrated but after only two weeks they when on to Nebraska as it was too cold in WI. They bought a farm 11 miles NW of Nebraska City in Otoe County, about 50 miles west of Linclon, NE . They went there because a family acquaintance, Ernst Guenzel, lived there. Guenzel was from Schleusingen, Germany which is about 240 miles west of Girbigsdorf. There was also a Frenzel family from Girbigsdorf that lived in Otoe County. The Ernst family moved to Lincoln, NE prior to the summer of 1880 as they are included in the 1880 Lincoln census
H. Edward Bruckner's wife Pauline Ernst is listed in the 1880 census as a servant in the house of John & Matilda McMechan in Otoe County, NE. Edward & Pauline were married in the McMechan house in 1882. It is possible that John Mcmechan, or his wife Matilda Ballentine, were those cousins and that Edward met his future wife Pauline because she worked in the McMechan home. Click here for the John & Matilda McMechan stories.
No diffinate cousin connection to any of these families has been found.
After JG Bruckner died in May of 1882 Anna tried for some time to manage the farm but it became too difficult for her. Probably about 1885, Anna and her son Sam moved to Lincoln, NE were Ed & Pauline lived. Ed and Sam went to work on the railroad. They probably got the railroad job as Carl J. Ernst was an executive with the railroad. Anna had not sold the farm in Wisconsin and some time prior to 1898 Anna and Sam returned to the farm in Wisconsin. It is not known if Anna's son John Lewis when to Nebraska with them.
Ed and Pauline lived in Lincoln but were married in Otoe County. It does not appear that Ed ever lived in Otoe County but may have gotten married there as it was where the Ernst family farm was located. Ed and Pauline had 13 children but at least 6 of the children died very young. Four of them died very close together of Diphtheria in 1890.
The following listing is included in the 1901 Lincoln, NE city directory.
Bruckner, H. Edw, fireman A St. Pump Sta., Residence, 525 S. 30th
For some unknown reason the Ed Bruckner family moved to the Greeley, Colorado area in 1904 where he lived until he died in 1921. Eds daughter Grace, wrote in the family history that a note on the Birth Certificate of her brother John says the Father (Ed Bruckner) was a Station Engineer in Lincoln, Nebraska and in Colorado a farmer and "Jack of all trades". Edward's brother Sam also lived in the Greeley area for about a year in 1908, 1913, and 1919.
Ed's death record shows his occupation was a stationary fireman at Great Western Sugar Company. Ed's wife Pauline continued to live in CO for 39 years after his death until she died in 1960 at age 99. Pauline, Ed, and all/most of his children are buried in Nebraska.
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