William Harry Bronston was the son and eldest child of Charles Sumner Bronston (c.1858–1929)
& Matilda Jane Tunnell (c.1857–c.1890) who were married 22 Oct 1896 in Anderson County, KS. She went by Jane or Jennie.
Charles was a newspaperman, from a long line of newspaperfolk - his father William H Bronston and mother Nancy "Nannie" Bailey Bronston and her father before her, abolitionist William Shreve Bailey. The elder Wm H Bronston was the son of Jacob Bronston and nephew of Thomas Springer Bronston, Sr. of Kentucky.
It is not known what happened to this marriage, but a family photo torn in half, shows only the mother and two daughters, and suggests enmity.
~There is no further record found of the mother, Jane Tunnell Bronston.
~William Harry appears to have gone to work and Charles disappeared.
~His sisters, Nellie and Ella, went to live with their paternal grandmother, Nannie Bronston, and shortly afterward moved to Portland, OR.
~Charles Sumner Bronston remarried in 1893 (2 daughters). He abandoned them.
~Charles married again in 1902 in Illinois (7 more children.)
~Charles died of cancer from printers ink.
& Matilda Jane Tunnell (c.1857–c.1890) who were married 22 Oct 1896 in Anderson County, KS. She went by Jane or Jennie.
Charles was a newspaperman, from a long line of newspaperfolk - his father William H Bronston and mother Nancy "Nannie" Bailey Bronston and her father before her, abolitionist William Shreve Bailey. The elder Wm H Bronston was the son of Jacob Bronston and nephew of Thomas Springer Bronston, Sr. of Kentucky.
It is not known what happened to this marriage, but a family photo torn in half, shows only the mother and two daughters, and suggests enmity.
~There is no further record found of the mother, Jane Tunnell Bronston.
~William Harry appears to have gone to work and Charles disappeared.
~His sisters, Nellie and Ella, went to live with their paternal grandmother, Nannie Bronston, and shortly afterward moved to Portland, OR.
~Charles Sumner Bronston remarried in 1893 (2 daughters). He abandoned them.
~Charles married again in 1902 in Illinois (7 more children.)
~Charles died of cancer from printers ink.
William Harry Bronston was the son and eldest child of Charles Sumner Bronston (c.1858–1929)
& Matilda Jane Tunnell (c.1857–c.1890) who were married 22 Oct 1896 in Anderson County, KS. She went by Jane or Jennie.
Charles was a newspaperman, from a long line of newspaperfolk - his father William H Bronston and mother Nancy "Nannie" Bailey Bronston and her father before her, abolitionist William Shreve Bailey. The elder Wm H Bronston was the son of Jacob Bronston and nephew of Thomas Springer Bronston, Sr. of Kentucky.
It is not known what happened to this marriage, but a family photo torn in half, shows only the mother and two daughters, and suggests enmity.
~There is no further record found of the mother, Jane Tunnell Bronston.
~William Harry appears to have gone to work and Charles disappeared.
~His sisters, Nellie and Ella, went to live with their paternal grandmother, Nannie Bronston, and shortly afterward moved to Portland, OR.
~Charles Sumner Bronston remarried in 1893 (2 daughters). He abandoned them.
~Charles married again in 1902 in Illinois (7 more children.)
~Charles died of cancer from printers ink.
& Matilda Jane Tunnell (c.1857–c.1890) who were married 22 Oct 1896 in Anderson County, KS. She went by Jane or Jennie.
Charles was a newspaperman, from a long line of newspaperfolk - his father William H Bronston and mother Nancy "Nannie" Bailey Bronston and her father before her, abolitionist William Shreve Bailey. The elder Wm H Bronston was the son of Jacob Bronston and nephew of Thomas Springer Bronston, Sr. of Kentucky.
It is not known what happened to this marriage, but a family photo torn in half, shows only the mother and two daughters, and suggests enmity.
~There is no further record found of the mother, Jane Tunnell Bronston.
~William Harry appears to have gone to work and Charles disappeared.
~His sisters, Nellie and Ella, went to live with their paternal grandmother, Nannie Bronston, and shortly afterward moved to Portland, OR.
~Charles Sumner Bronston remarried in 1893 (2 daughters). He abandoned them.
~Charles married again in 1902 in Illinois (7 more children.)
~Charles died of cancer from printers ink.
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