Barron Family *See notes below....................... Back to DIRECTORY

Bertha (Berthie) Broncho Breuninger

(1/1/1887)-(3/14/1973)

  This work has been most difficult because of the spelling of Bertha's last name on several
 different documents. Several spellings Have come up in the research. Breuninger, Breuinger,
 Breninger, Brenninger,brinegar and Brevinger to name a few. Ma Barron wrote this her self and she
 spelled it like this (her handwriting):


  On the marriage license it was writtin like this:


  Here are some cropped pictures and they show her as we remember her. That is Arlin with her 
in the third photo.

* UPDATE NOTE !--- Many of you have made contact with me about our Indian heritage and our 
Grandmother Bertha Breuninger. I have been searching for two years now along with my other 
research, for Bertha in any census or any other record previous to 1910. A few nights ago 
I discovered a census record in Philadelphia Pennsylvania where she and her sister were 
living at 324 South eleventh street along with about 120 other displaced Indian children
at the "Lincoln institution". This is written on the upper right side of the census report.  
  I have taken the liberty of making an assumption based on the Carlisle Indian school 
located just North of Philadelphia.
About the Carlisle  Indian Industrial School
  I have also read the stories here and other places.

About the Indian Schools

An Indian Boy's story  

Please read ANNA BENDER's story 

"She previously attended the Lincoln Institution in Philadelphia for seven years"

" The only home I can distinctly remember was the Lincoln Institution in Philadelphia.
 I do not recollect the trip from my home in Minnesota, where I came with two older 
brothers John and Charles when I was six years old.
  My brothers went to the Education at Home on forty-ninth street leaving me 
at the girls' school on "eleventh" street. Here I spent the happy days of my childhood 
with other children, brought as I had been, from their western homes."

   Many questions will go unanswered here but if you know the history and can put the fragments of this 
information together in your mind and imagination you may come up with the same or equivalent story 
as I have.
  For those of you who do not subscribe to Ancestry .com the census I have found places them 
in the 1900 U.S. census of Philadelphia Pennsylvania in  Philadelphia county enumeration 
district # 1041 on page four of six. All six pages are Indians and all are located at the address 
mentioned above.
  Now in this census report Both Bertha and Ada say they are of the MENOMINEE  tribe and that 
their father is from Wisconsin and that their mother is from Indian Territory (Eastern Oklahoma).  
  According to verbal traditions passed on to us from our families Bertha was well educated. She even 
continued her education in Anadarko Oklahoma after her marriage to Hamlett Barron. She was also said 
to be adopted by the Breuninger family and it has always been said that she was Cherokee and/or Choctaw.
After reading the census report from 1900 where she and Ada stated they were in fact MENOMINEE. I am
of the opinion that they were or at least thought they were at that time. Later census reports
have her listed as white or Cherokee. Please look at the census links on the main page for these facts.
  I am still researching and finding out more about her as well as others in our family tree but wanted 
to get this posted and placed on are page as soon as possible.
  Here is an image of the census report I found in the 1900 Philadelphia Pennsylvania documents.
It is very hard to read this print. 
Bertha and Ada Breuninger 1900
Bertha and Ada Breuninger 1900 Indian report on the same page

Forced Assimilation. Students and teachers assemble outside of the Lincoln Institution, an Indian Girls’ School in Pennsylvania, circa 1884. Children as young as six were sent to boarding schools to “unlearn” their native culture.

 



 Now This is a very rough draft and I have started it on this date 8/01/2003. Please email me
if you have more information (dates names ect.)or can correct my spelling errors and/or add
dates and names.