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Jacob Brosius
(1744-1822)
Maria Catherine Newman
(1754-1830)
Henry Meyer
(Abt 1755-1810)
Katharine Diehl
(Abt 1755-)
Jacob Brosius
(1774-1862)
Marie Eva Meyer
(1785-1846)
William Lewis Brosius
(Abt 1829-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Zerelda Ruth Osborn

William Lewis Brosius 1 2 3 4

  • Born: Abt 1829, Hancock, Washington County, Maryland 1 2
  • Marriage (1): Zerelda Ruth Osborn in 1849
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  General Notes:

At the time of the 1850 census, Lewis was a farmer in Daviess County, Missouri. At the time of the 1860 census, William was a farmer in Marysville, Yuba County, California. He had $25 in personal assets. James J. Osborn, 40 born in Kentucky, was listed with the family. He was a school teacher.

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  Additional Information:

• Military Service: Pvt, Company G, 2nd Cavalry Regiment California, Union: the Civil War. 5 6

• Alt. Birth, 1827. 7


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William married Zerelda Ruth Osborn, daughter of Jesse Osborn and Margaret Orr, in 1849. (Zerelda Ruth Osborn was born in Aug 1834 in Indiana 8.)


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Sources


1 1850 United States Federal Census, District 27, Daviess, Missouri; Roll M432_398; Page: 365; Image: 209. Repository: Ancestry.com.

2 1860 United States Federal Census, Marysville Ward 2, Yuba, California; Roll M653_72; Page: 891; Image: 351; Family History Library Film: 803072. Repository: Ancestry.com.

3 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) (Copyright (c) 1980, 2002), data as of March 29, 2010; Film #: 538348. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150.

4 Herbert Willard Brosius, Brosius Family Tree (Brosius 2009 Gedcom).

5 American Civil War Soldiers, Enlistment Place: Marysville, Yuba County, California. Repository: Ancestry.com.

6 U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, Repository: Ancestry.com.

7 Lewis Walton Brosius, Genealogy of Henry and Mary Brosius and their descendants with other historical matters connected therewith (Wilmington ?, Delaware, 1928), page 409.

8 1900 United States Federal Census, Santa Cruz Ward 3, Santa Cruz, California; Roll T623_112; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 90. Repository: Ancestry.com.


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