Samuel Brandenburg
Samuel Brandenburg is a farmer who settled in Shelby County in 1839. He was born in Maryland in 1732, and his wife in Virginia in 1795. Their children are Elizabeth, S. W., Samuel, Dorothea, Christena, Joel, Catharine, and Mary. His father was in the Revolutionary war, was wounded, and drew a pension after he had reached old age. He enlisted when quite a young man, and served through the war under Gen. Marion. Mr. Brandenburg hauled wheat to Dayton, and exchanged it for salt. He died in 1845, aged sixty-three years.
Samuel Brandenburg, deceased, was born in Maryland, in 1785. He migrated to Ohio in 1814 and located in Montgomery County, where, on the 2d day of March, 1817, he married Miss Catharine Brenner, daughter of Lewis and Dorothy Brenner. Miss Brenner was born in Virginia, July 12, 1795, and came to Ohio with her parents in 1814, and settled in Montgomery County. Mr. and Mrs. Brandenburg settled on a farm in Montgomery County, remained until 1839, when they came to Shelby County, made improvements, and settled on the farm in Jackson Township, now owned by their son Lewis W. Brandenburg, where Mr. Brandenburg died in November, 1846. Mrs. Brandenburg remained on the farm in Jackson Township with her children, until they all grew to be men and women and were married. ln 1866, she left the farm, and has, since that time, been making her home with her children. For the last ten years she has been staying with her son Joel Brandenburg in Franklin Township, where she is now residing at the advanced age of 87 years. In about 1859, she had the misfortune to lose her eyesight by a cataract, and has since been in darkness. She reared a family of eight children, viz., Elizabeth, Lewis W., Samuel, Dorothy A., Christina, Joel, Catharine, and Mary. Elizabeth, Samuel, and Dorothy are dead.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883