1845 William H. Brenizer was born on March 29. [1]
1867 William H. Brenizer and Martha A. Wheeler were married on January 20 in Morrow County, Ohio. [2] [3]
1870 William H Brenizer (age 25), Martha A Brenizer (age 22), and Adah M Brenizer (age 2) lived in Westfield Twp, Morrow County, Ohio. [4]
1935 Martha Brenizer died on February 16 and was buried at Lime Ridge Cemetery, Lime Ridge, Sauk County, Wisconsin. [5]
1939 William H. Brenizer died on September 27 and was buried at Lime Ridge Cemetery, Lime Ridge, Sauk County, Wisconsin. [6]
A biosketch reported [7]:
William H. Brenizer, farmer, Sec. 28; P.O. Lime Ridge; son of Adam and Jane R. (Elliott) Brenizer; was born in Morrow County, Ohio, March 29, 1845. Enlisted in July, 1864, in Co. A, 174th Ohio V.I. and served till the close of the war. He was married in Morrow Co, January, 1868, to Martha, daughter of Upton and Eliza Wheeler; she was born in Maryland. Mr. B. and family came to Wisconsin in 1870, and located on Sec. 28, town of Ironton, Sauk County; have 80 acres of land; they have two children - Ada and Owen; he has been Clerk of his school district one year, and Director three years.
William Brenizer was named as an early settler of Baraboo. [8]:
William H. Brenizer and his wife Martha Wheeler, daughter of Upton and Eliza (Dearholt) Wheeler and his brother, Hugh H. Brenizer and Mr. and Mrs. Upton Wheeler and V. I. Van Loon were settlers of the period of about 1870-71.
[1] Erma Burt, Brenizer Bible, Described in a letter to the Ohio Genealogical Society (25 March, 1980).
[2] Erma Burt, Brenizer Bible, Described in a letter to the Ohio Genealogical Society (25 March, 1980).
[3] Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[4] United States Federal Census, 1870, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial 50883524, [FindAGrave].
[6] Find A Grave Memorial 15527546, [FindAGrave].
[7] Western Historical Society. The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880), 772, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Merton Edwin Krug, History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley (Madison : Krug, 1929), 345, [HathiTrust].