Thomas Jefferson BRUSTER
Data furnished by Barbara Brooks, great grand daughter. The certified copy
of the marriage certificate from Coles County, Illinois spells the name
"Breuster". He and Nancy Jane Hay were married by J.W.Vaughan, a minister
of the gospel. The spelling of the name is taken from the Bruster family
records. Thomas was a farmer in his early married years, sometime after the
family moved to Marshalltown, Iowa he became day janitor for the Dunham
Company. Thomas died of a stroke.
In 1900 Nancy Jane Hay Bruster, her husband Thomas, son Ellsberry Bruster
and his wife Lula May Pinno Bruster, daughter Lily Bruster Winkler and
her husband Harry Winkler, daughter Annie (a teenager) moved from Anderson
County, Kansas to Marshalltown, Iowa where they lived the remainder of their
lives.
Data furnished by Barbara Brooks
Data furnished by Barbara Brooks. She stated "We know they had a child
died buried in Kansas".
Lily spent her first 11 years in Coles County, Illinois. Her parents then moved
to Garnett, Kansas where she lived until her marriage in 1895. She and her
husband lived on a farm 12 miles S.E. of Garnett until 1900 when they moved to
Marshalltown, Iowa.
Data furnished by Barbara Brooks. He and his wife moved to Marshalltown
in 1899.
Data furnished by Barbara Brooks
He married Nancy Jane Hay 31 Dec 1868 at Coles, Illinois . Nancy Jane Hay was born at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania 2 Feb 1844 daughter of Simon Gilbert Hay and Mary Ann Chilcott .
They were the parents of 4
children:
Robert Bruster
born 4 Jan 1870.
Lily Mary Bruster
born 16 Aug 1871.
Ellsberry (Elzie) Bruster
born 29 Jan 1872.
Analiza (Annie) Bruster
born 20 Oct 1885.
Thomas Jefferson Bruster died 22 Feb 1929 at Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa .
Nancy Jane Hay died 23 Apr 1932 at Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa .