Samuel Fredrick Bruckner Family Tree and Story
Samuel Fredrick Bruckner (M), Born: 18 Oct 1867, New Chester, Adams, WI
Died 9 Aug 1944, Glenwood Springs, Garfield, CO
Marriage 1: 25 Mar 1900 in New Chester, Adams, WI to Hannah Elmira Beals (F),
Hannah was Born: 26 Jul 1883, Turquoise, Beadle, SD (near Sioux Falls),
Died: 14 Jun 1966, Buried: Milwaukee, WI
Sam was 32 and Hannah was 16 when they were married.
Sam & Hannah were divorced in 1910.
After Sam & Hannah were divorced in 1910 Hannah married Ener Enerson in 1913.
They had three children; Ener Arle, Vickie, & Arne (Bud).
Hannah also married a Mr. Hopper & a Mr. Zuiry/Zurey before her death.
Children of Sam & Hannah (Beals) Bruckner
(All were born in New Chester, Adams, WI except for Arle)
Child 1: Helen Ann (Warp) Bruckner (F), Born 13 Mar 1901, New Chester, Adams, WI
Died: 6 Sep 1990, Frendship, Adams, WI
Marriage 1:: 6 Sep 1919 in Adams County, WI to Almer Orlando Warp
Child 2: Fredrick (Fred) William Bruckner (M), Born 28 Jan 1903, New Chester, Adams, WI
Died: 27 Jun 1973, Garfield County, CO
Marriage 1: spring of 1927 to Mary Bonis (F), D: Aug 1931, Typhoid fever
Marriage 2:: 22 Dec 1931 to Agnes Julia Bonis (F)
Child 3: Samuel Floyd Bruckner (M) (went by Floyd), Born 5 Jun 1905, Died: 11 Apr 1977
Marriage 1:: 21 Mar 1930 to Maude L. Bumgardner (F) in Glenwood Springs, CO
Child 4: Arle Harry Bruckner (M), Born: 23 Jun 1907, Marshfield, WI, Died: 8 April 1959
(Eli Arle Harry Bruckner on birth record)
Marriage 1:: summer of 1928 to Rose Marie Benton in Garfield County, CO
Hannah Elmira Beals Family Tree
Emerson B. Beals, Born: 13 Apr 1827, New York state
Died: 28 Feb 1900, New Chester, Adams, WI
Marriage 1: date unknown to Sally DeMott (F), Born: 18 Mar 1833, New York state
Sally's fathers name was William Demott
Died: 22 Feb 1912, New Chester, Adams, WI
Sally previously married Horace Baggs in 1846.
Sally & Horace had two children: Omar & Frank
Children of Emerson & Sally Beals
William (Billy) Emerson Beals (M), B; 20 Jul 1857, Elkhorn, Walrath, WI
Died: 1 Jul 1931, Wisconsin
Emerson & Sally had 5 other children: Lucy, Benjamin, George, Nettie, & Annie
Marriage 1: 26 Jan 1876 to Hanna Wener (F), Born: unknown, Died: unknown
They had two children: Charlie & Dora (married James Roberts).
Hanna (Wener) Beals died when Dora was a child.
Marriage 2:: , date unknown to Emma Elizabeth Keller (F),
Born: 20 Oct 1861, New Chester, Adams, WI
Died: 2 Dec 1938, New Chester, Adams, WI
Children of William (Billy) & Emma (Keller) Beals
Child 1: Hannah Beals (F), Hannah, Born: 26 Jul 1883, South Dakota
Child 2: Samuel H. Beals (M), Born: Feb 1885, Wisconsin
Child 3: Eli J. Beals (M), Born: Sep 1886, Wisconsin
Child 4: Bertha M. Beals (F), Born: Jan 1888, Wisconsin
Child 5: Martha A. Beals (F), Born: Feb 1890, Wisconsin
Child 6: Sarah I. Beals (F), Born: Sep 1892, Wisconsin
Child 7: Richard W. Beals (M), Born: May 1894, Wisconsin
Child 8: Pearl E. Beals (F), Born: Sep 1898, Wisconsin
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The following is based on family history recorded by various family members.
Sometime after May of 1882 when Sam's father died, Sam, his brother John Lewis, and his mother Anna moved to the Lincoln area of Nebraska. Sam's half-brother Ed was born in 1857 so Ed was 10 years older and Ed had apparently gone to Nebraska earlier as he was married there in March of 1882 and Sam's father didn't die until May of 1882. Ed's mother Anna had a cousin that lived there. Sam was a young man at the time and worked with Ed on the railroad in Nebraska when the railroad was being built westward.
Sam and his mother Anna returned to Wisconsin some time prior to 1898 and Ed stayed in Nebraska with his family. For the train trip back, they could not afford to pay for tickets for all three (Sam, J. Lewis, & Anna) so Sam hid in a large trunk. He would have been able to get out in the baggage car when no one was around and his mother likely had food to give him. After Sam got back to Wisconsin he bought a 160 acre farm in 1898 for $8.33 that was sold by the county for back taxes. The farm was located one mile south of the John Gottfried Bruckner farm which was then owned by his brother J. Lewis Bruckner and his wife Augusta. Sam married Hannah Beals in 1900 and all four of their children were born on the farm.
Sam and Lewis planted sugar cane and Lewis had the equipment to crush the cane to make cane juice and then cook the juice to make sorghum. Sorghum was made into unleavened breads, boiled porridge or gruel, malted beverages including beer, and was the primary sweetener for cooking and baking. After Lewis died in 1912 Sam moved the sorghum mill to his farm.
In the fall of 1908, Sam and Hannah sold all their livestock and house hold items and moved to the Greeley, Colorado area where his brother Ed lived. He stayed for about a year and went then back to the farm in Wisconsin to start all over again. Sam and Hannah divorced in the spring of 1910. Hannah married Ener Enerson in 1913. Sam never remarried. In the fall of 1914, Sam and the children moved back to Greeley, CO and stayed for about a year before moving back to Wisconsin again. In 1919 Sam sold his Wisconsin farm and everything and moved to Briggsdale, CO (20 miles NE of Greeley) to be near his half-brother Ed who had moved there from Nebraska. His sons, Fred, Floyd, and Arle when with him but Helen stayed in Wisconsin with her mother and step-father until she married Almer Warp on 6 Sep 1919.
The dryland farming by Briggsdale was so poor that Sam decided to move to western Colorado. In 1920 he homesteaded 160 acres in western Colorado in the Piceannce Creek area NE of Parachute, CO (between Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction). Sam died in the hospital in Glenwood Springs in 1944 and is buried in the Hulburt Russey cemetery in Parchute/Grand Valley, CO.
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