CHARLES DEBRULER, the second child of Micajah G. and Mary, was born in Granville county, North Carolina April 19, 1785. He was twelve years of age when the family moved to Orange county, that state, where he spent his early manhood and where he married Elizabeth Rae Hargrave, a daughter of William and Sarah, Feb. 20, 1816. Possessing ambition and the high qualities of manhood which were fostered in his father’s home, he readily consented to migrate to the new state of Indiana where slavery was not permitted and where there would be better educational advantages. He joined the family colony that settled in Pike county, Indiana near Highbanks in the spring of 1818. At this time they had one child, William Greenfield. They soon possessed a tract of forest land which was converted into a profitable pioneer farm. Both Charles and Elizabeth R. had been trained to look upon work as elevating and their example could not but have a fine influence upon their children as well as the community. They made the best of pioneer conditions and enjoyed life. It was a happy home until the tragic death of the husband and father. He was accidentally drowned in Patoka river at Beech creek Dec. 22, 1835. His body was not found until the following April. The children of Charles and Elizabeth R. were: William Greenfield, Susannah, Jabez M., Eliza and Charles Rufus.
A historical, biographical, and genealogical account of certain branches of the DeBruler and Hargrave families
Eva Bruler, 1938 pgs 17-18
A historical, biographical, and genealogical account of certain branches of the DeBruler and Hargrave families
Eva Bruler, 1938 pgs 17-18
CHARLES DEBRULER, the second child of Micajah G. and Mary, was born in Granville county, North Carolina April 19, 1785. He was twelve years of age when the family moved to Orange county, that state, where he spent his early manhood and where he married Elizabeth Rae Hargrave, a daughter of William and Sarah, Feb. 20, 1816. Possessing ambition and the high qualities of manhood which were fostered in his father’s home, he readily consented to migrate to the new state of Indiana where slavery was not permitted and where there would be better educational advantages. He joined the family colony that settled in Pike county, Indiana near Highbanks in the spring of 1818. At this time they had one child, William Greenfield. They soon possessed a tract of forest land which was converted into a profitable pioneer farm. Both Charles and Elizabeth R. had been trained to look upon work as elevating and their example could not but have a fine influence upon their children as well as the community. They made the best of pioneer conditions and enjoyed life. It was a happy home until the tragic death of the husband and father. He was accidentally drowned in Patoka river at Beech creek Dec. 22, 1835. His body was not found until the following April. The children of Charles and Elizabeth R. were: William Greenfield, Susannah, Jabez M., Eliza and Charles Rufus.
A historical, biographical, and genealogical account of certain branches of the DeBruler and Hargrave families
Eva Bruler, 1938 pgs 17-18
A historical, biographical, and genealogical account of certain branches of the DeBruler and Hargrave families
Eva Bruler, 1938 pgs 17-18
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