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Peter Martin Bruner

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Peter Martin Bruner

Birth
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
24 Oct 1909 (aged 80)
Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Conestoga, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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The son of Owen & Anna (Martin) Bruner, he married Elizabeth Ohmit and fathered Peter Martin (b. 07/08/56), Rebecca J. (b. @1858), Martha H. (b. 1859), Jacob Martin (b. 05/18/62), and Mary E. (b. 12/31/69). In 1860, he was a merchant living in Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

A Civil War veteran of brief and uneventful duration, he enlisted and mustered into state service at Conestoga Township September 12, 1862, as a private with Co. A, 18th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 26, 1862. The unit served on an emergency basis during a crisis that terminated with the battle of Antietam, a fight in which the 18th Pennsylvania Militia never took part.

Cause of his death is listed as "uremia" caused by "chronic nephritis."

From the Gettysburg Compiler dated November 3, 1909

Peter M. Bruner died at his house in Lancaster last week at an advanced age, over 80 years. Interment was made in Lancaster Cemetery. He was the father of Peter M. Bruner, proprietor of the City Hotel of this place.
The son of Owen & Anna (Martin) Bruner, he married Elizabeth Ohmit and fathered Peter Martin (b. 07/08/56), Rebecca J. (b. @1858), Martha H. (b. 1859), Jacob Martin (b. 05/18/62), and Mary E. (b. 12/31/69). In 1860, he was a merchant living in Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

A Civil War veteran of brief and uneventful duration, he enlisted and mustered into state service at Conestoga Township September 12, 1862, as a private with Co. A, 18th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 26, 1862. The unit served on an emergency basis during a crisis that terminated with the battle of Antietam, a fight in which the 18th Pennsylvania Militia never took part.

Cause of his death is listed as "uremia" caused by "chronic nephritis."

From the Gettysburg Compiler dated November 3, 1909

Peter M. Bruner died at his house in Lancaster last week at an advanced age, over 80 years. Interment was made in Lancaster Cemetery. He was the father of Peter M. Bruner, proprietor of the City Hotel of this place.


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