Samuel Brantner

Samuel Brantner
(1820-Abt 1886)

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Spouses/Children:
1. Smith

Samuel Brantner ¹ ²

Born: 1820, Maryland ²
Marriage (1): Smith after 1850
Died: Abt 1886, Arapahoe, CO about age 66 ³

bullet General Notes:

He was 49 in 1870, married, living in Arapahoe, Colorado.
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He was 58 in 1880, married, living in Arapahoe, Colorado.
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In 1849, Jonas and Samuel got the gold fever and went to the California Gold Rush - they made at least two trips. In 1859 they went from Ohio to Colorado in the gold rush here. The two of them built the original log cabin house that is the historic Four Mile House and Park - oldest dwelling in the city of Denver. The spring of 1860 found them north of Denver near Henderson Island where they homesteaded and built the first irrigation canal out of the South Platte River, Brantner Ditch. (Info received from Lauren Brantner).
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bullet Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1820 US Census in Election District 2, Washington County, MD on August 1820. ⁴

1820 US Census
Page 193, Roll 46
Election District 2, Washington County, Maryland
Males under 10: 3 - (Levi, age 5; Jonas, age 4; Samuel Brantner, age 0)
(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1830 US Census in Monroe Township, Richland County, OH on June 1830. ⁵

1830 US Census
Page 160, Roll 139
Monroe Township, Richland County, Ohio
Males
10-15: 2 (Jonas, age 14 and Samuel Brantner, age 10, step-sons)
(Living with mother and step-father.)
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• He appeared on the 1840 US Census in Monroe Township, Richland County, OH on June 1840. ⁶

1840 US Census
Page 82A, Roll 423
Monroe Township, Richland County, Ohio
Males
15-20: 1 = (Samuel Brantner, son, age 20)
(Living with apparently widowed mother.)
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• He appeared on the 1850 US Census in Monroe Township, Richland County, OH on 28 August 1850. ²

1850 US Census
Page 330B, Dwelling 165, Family 165, Roll 724
Monroe Township, Richland County, Ohio
Samuel Brentner..30..MD
Catherine Sloane..64..MD
Levi Brentner..35..MD
Maretta Stoner..30..MD
Isabella A. Stoner..7..OH

(Samuel was the apparent head of the household and was living with mother, brother, Levi, half-sister, Mary Ann Stoner, and apparently her daughter, Isabella.)
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Samuel married Smith, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, after 1850. (Smith was born about 1825 and died on an unknown date.)

1 Lauren Brantner (August 2003, E-mail messages concerning Christopher Arnsberger and descendants.).

2 1850 U.S. census, population schedule, Monroe Township, Richland County, Ohio, p. 330B, dwelling 165, family 165, Samuel Brantner; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 22 Aug 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, roll 724.

3 Jan Kippen, "The Ancestors of Janet Foster Kippen" (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jankippen; Updated: 2007-09-15 21:45:03 UTC (Sat)).

4 1820 U.S. census population schedule, Election District 2, Washington County, Maryland, p. 193, Jacob Brantner and Catherine Arnsberger; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 13 Oct 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M33, roll 46.

5 1830 U.S. census, Monroe Township, Richland County, Ohio, p. 160, John Stoner and Catherine Arnsberger; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 13 Oct 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M19, roll 139.

6 1840 U.S. census, Monroe Township, Richland County, Ohio, p. 82A, Catherine Arnsberger; database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 16 Oct 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M704, roll 423.

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