Sarah Ann Bridges
Wife of Henry Hickman Bruner, whom she married, probably in 1824 in Lawrence County, Indiana. She was with him in Appanoose County, Iowa, in 1850 and in Mercer County, Missouri, in 1860, when she was recorded as unable to read or write, and was a founding member of the Somerset Methodist Episcopal Church in 1858. Probably the mother of Eli Woodruff Bruner.
Life
- c. 1804BornKentucky
Aged 47 in 1850 and 56 in 1860, born Kentucky.
- 1824Married Henry Hickman Bruner
- 1840LivedMartin County, Indiana
A woman 30-40 in Hickman's household, as the research reads it.
inferredprobable - 1850Lived
- 1860LivedSummersett Township, Mercer County, Missouri
In her husband's household (family 815).
documentedproven - 1873Died1873
The master tree's year (27 Sep 2026); the older Bruner research file says her death date is unknown. No source given.
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Family
- Father
- William Henry Bridges
1766 - 16 Aug 1852, of Johnston County, North Carolina, as the Ancestry tree has him; no record attached, not yet imported.
compiledpossible - Mother
- Elizabeth (Betsy) Wright
1773-1850, North Carolina, as the Ancestry tree has her (a daughter of John Wright and Penelope Clark); no record attached, not yet imported.
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Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Henry Hickman Bruner, married in Lawrence County, Indiana, in 1824. Recorded as unable to read or write in 1860. A founding member of the Somerset Methodist Episcopal Church, Mercer County, Missouri, in 1858. The 1886 sketch of her probable son David M. Bruner says she died in Arkansas.
Open questions
- Her parents. The Ancestry tree names William Henry Bridges and Elizabeth (Betsy) Wright of North Carolina, with nothing attached; she was born in Kentucky about 1804.
- When and where she died; the source for the master tree’s 1873. A photograph posted as Hickman Bruner and Sarah Bridges shows a woman in a dress of the 1890s (picture): either she lived into the 1890s or it is someone else.