Brun Serves in Dakota 18 Years
Pastor and Mrs. Nikolaus Brun on their wedding day.
Source:
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/sd/mcphersn/church/stjames.txt
Born in Odessa, Russia, on August 13,
1864, Nikolaus Brun, son of Leo and Sophie Brun, went to Germany as
a young man and attended the Missionsanstalt at Neuendettelsau. In
America he attended the Missouri Synod Seminary in St. Louis for a
short time but soon joined the Iowa Synod and, receiving further
education at Springfield, Missouri, and Wartburg Seminary, was
ordained in Berlin, Nebraska, on April 24, 1892.
He married Anna Pett, sister of
Pastors Otto and Ernest Pett, on April 26, 1893. Of the Dakota
congregations he served for 18 years, only St. James and one in
Ashley, North Dakota, still exist today. After serving Leola from
1895 to 1897, he went to Krem, north of the present Hazen, North
Dakota, 1899-1900; Jewell, North Dakota, 1902; Ashley, 1903-1904;
Belle, 1905-1907; and Esmond, 1908 -1912, both in South Dakota.
After Bethune, Colorado, where he
served the Immanuel church until 1915, he moved to the Zion church
of Phillipsburg, Kansas, where he remained active until 1924. After
his death on April 19, 1925, Mrs. Brun moved to Longmont, Colorado,
with the four youngest children. She passed away there March 1,
1956, and was buried beside her husband at Phillipsburg.
Information furnished by Marie, now
Mrs. Frank Oehlke, of St. Paul, Minnesota, the oldest of the ten
children, also reveals that a brother died in infancy at Bethune.
[ See
Franz BRUNN-2638 ] Other
children are Mrs. Gus (Amelia) Adolf
[ Amelia BRUNN
Adolf-2648 ], of
Wapato, Washington; John, of Enderlin, North Dakota; Mrs. John (Beatta)
Gundel, Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Richard (Dorothy) Gundel, Cupertina,
California; Mrs. J. W. (Albertine) Fonda, Poplar Bluff, Missouri;
Mrs. Annie Ring, Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Jesse (Wilma) Merlan,
Moscow, Idaho; and Herman, of Long Beach, California.
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Leo Brun born about 1840 in Odessa,
Ukraine, Russia and died 1870 in Russia. He married Sophia Akin. She
was born about 1840 in Odessa, Ukraine, Russia and died in 1915 in
Russia. They had at least one son - Nickolaus born 8/13/1864 in
Odessa, Ukraine, Russia and died 4/19/1925 in Phillipsburg, Phillips
Co. KS. Nickolaus married Anna Maria Wilhemina Pett in 1893 in ND.
Nickolaus and Anna had the following children - Maria Magdalena
Emilie, Amelia Sophia Johanna, John Alexander Sigmund, Beatta Renata
Caroline, Dorothea Augusta Wilhelmina, Albertina Antonia Rosina,
Frank Gustav, and three others with unknown names. Albertina married
James William Fonda and they lived in Poplar Bluff, MO.
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