Individual Details

Bertha Annah BRENIMAN

(12 Sep 1868 - 8 Oct 1952)

Bertha graduated from Iowa Grinnell College, taught school for over 20 years, proved up on a homestead in Wyoming, retired from teaching and traveled for a year, chose New York City to spend the last years of her life - died in Rochester Hospital due to hardening of the lining of the intestines from drinking New York water which flows down from the mountains.....written by her sister, Virginia.
Her will, from Surrogates Court, New York County (NY?) dated May 1925 is very interesting. She states her residence as Newcastle, Wyoming. The only family members she left anything to were her uncles John Breniman and Gottlieb Breniman. Article #6 of her will states "My experience with my relatives other than the uncles named in this will has been so unpleasant that I do not wish any one of them to receive any of my property or act as executors of my estate".

Brooklyn Chronicle, 01 April 1887
Miss Bertha Brenniman will teach in Madison this summer.

Events

Birth12 Sep 1868Brooklyn, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA
Birth12 Sep 1868Brooklyn, Poweshiek Co., IA
Occupation1911Teacher - South Dakota, USA
Death8 Oct 1952Brooklyn, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA
Death8 Oct 1952Rochester, Olmstead Co., MN
BurialAft 8 Oct 1952Brooklyn Memorial Cemetery, Brooklyn, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA
BurialAft 8 Oct 1952IOOF Cemetery, Brooklyn, Poweshiek Co., IA
EducationIowa College (Grinnell College), Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA
Reference No1269

Families

FatherChristian Durig BRENIMAN ( - 1924)
MotherJulia Annah "Annah" PIERCE (1845 - 1916)
SiblingBarbara Irene BRENIMAN (1870 - 1930)
SiblingDr. Elbridge Maxwell BRENIMAN (1871 - 1944)
SiblingFrances Julia "Fanny" BRENIMAN (1874 - 1911)
SiblingMarie Elizabeth BRENIMAN (1876 - 1941)
SiblingEdward Everett BRENIMAN (1878 - 1961)
SiblingCarolina Virginia "Callie" "Virginia" BRENIMAN (1883 - 1969)

Notes

Death

Bertha died at the Rochester Health Center in Rochester, Minnesota. I am under the assumption, therefore, that she died of a catastrophic disease such as cancer, but I do not know that.

Endnotes

1. Cemetery Photos and Data: , by williamknight57; ; findagrave.com, . Online www.findagrave.com; John Alden Headstone; Printout dated 29 May 2017, "Findagrave.com," online database (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 Feb 2012), entry for Bertha Annah Breniman, Compiled by Rose Rathbun, 2002, Poweshiek, Iowa # 6581539..

2. Obituary Obittree.com, online website, entry for Daniel Guy Fader, d. 12 Jan 2012, https://obittree.com/obituary/ca/ontario/niagara-falls/morse--son-funeral-home/daniel-fader/1095181/, Brooklyn (Iowa) Chronicle, date unknown.

3. GEDCOM file submitted by Patricia Breniman Rowell, Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa. Imported on 26 May 2017..

4. Prof. L. F. Parker History of Poweshiek County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, 1&2 (Chicago, Illinois, USA: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1911), Prof. L. F. Parker, History of Poweshiek County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, CD-Rom (Chicago, Illinois : The S. J. Publishing Co., 1911). Entry for Christian D. Breniman, p. 662.. Hereinafter cited as History of Poweshiek County, Iowa.

5. Cemetery Photos and Data: , by williamknight57; ; findagrave.com, . Online www.findagrave.com; John Alden Headstone; Printout dated 29 May 2017, "Findagrave.com," online database (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 Feb 2012), entry for Bertha Annah Breniman, Compiled by Rose Rathbun, 2002, Poweshiek, Iowa # 6581539..

6. Obituary Obittree.com, online website, entry for Daniel Guy Fader, d. 12 Jan 2012, https://obittree.com/obituary/ca/ontario/niagara-falls/morse--son-funeral-home/daniel-fader/1095181/, Brooklyn (Iowa) Chronicle, date unknown.

7. Removal Permit, Rochester Health Center, dated 09 Oct, 1952.

8. GEDCOM file submitted by Patricia Breniman Rowell, Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa. Imported on 26 May 2017..

9. Cemetery Photos and Data: , by williamknight57; ; findagrave.com, . Online www.findagrave.com; John Alden Headstone; Printout dated 29 May 2017, "Findagrave.com," online database (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 Feb 2012), entry for Bertha Annah Breniman, Compiled by Rose Rathbun, 2002, Poweshiek, Iowa # 6581539..

10. Tombstone, Poweshiek Co., Iowa, IOOF Cemetery, Brooklyn.

11. GEDCOM file submitted by Patricia Breniman Rowell, Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa. Imported on 26 May 2017..

12. Prof. L. F. Parker History of Poweshiek County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, 1&2 (Chicago, Illinois, USA: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1911), Prof. L. F. Parker, History of Poweshiek County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, CD-Rom (Chicago, Illinois : The S. J. Publishing Co., 1911). Entry for Christian D. Breniman, p. 662.. Hereinafter cited as History of Poweshiek County, Iowa.