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 Henry Mellenbruch
1839-1898

Heinrich Friedrich (Henry) MELLENBRUCH
RIN:1105
ID#:000.000
1st Generation

1838, January 3
Born in McLean Township, Anglaze County, Ohio
Father: Heinrich F C MELLENBRUCH
Mother: Anna Maria KOBBE
Ancestry

1839, June 3
Baptized in McLean Township, Anglaze County, Ohio
Shelby County is the New Name-- Anglaze County is Old Name

1847
His family moved to Jackson County, Indiana, when he was about nine years old. St. Paul's Church (Lutheran) also known as Borcher's Church was the family church and sat near the family homestead in Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana.
Bartholomew County Genealogy Society

As a young man he taught school in Indiana.

1855??
Civil War
Indiana in the Civil War

 1862, December 31
Wounded in the the Battle of Stones Creek (Tennessee??)

1865, October 26
Married Mary Sophia Dorothea MEYER in Bartholomew County, Indiana


1866 - 1884
Raised nine children: Louis (1866), Henry (1868), Thomas (1869), Will (1872), Anna (1874), Sophia (1876), Fred (1878), John (1880) & George (1884).
  • Family Photo
  • Family Group Sheet

    1872
    Moved to Brown County, Kansas.

    1886, Engraving of the H.F. Mellenbruch Farm -- Sec.24 Walnut Twp. Brown Co. Kas, T2S R 15 E.

    1887, about
    Early church services were arranged by the leadership of H.F. Mellenbruch with Rev. L.H. Schuch, an Ohio Synod missionary at the Mellenbruch Home.

    1887, December 26
    A mission congregation was organized, starting Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church of Fairview Kansas. -- Church History

    1890, April 27
    Cornerstone was laid for a church building.

    1898
    In the months before the death of H.F. Mellenbruch, he composed a letter to his children summarizing his advice on quality living and suggesting his family hold an annual reunion.

    1898, February 9
    Died at home in Fairview, Kansas, Buried at Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery in rural Fairview Kansas.
    Obituary

    1898, February 15
    Petition for Probate of H.F. Mellenbruch's Last Will filled in Probate Court in Brown County, Kansas.

    1898, Fall
    The first Mellenbruch Family reunion was held in the fall of his death and has been held each year since.

    1932 Memoirs of Mr. & Mrs. H. F. Mellenbruch