Frank Joseph and Elizabeth Brinkmann

 

Frank Brinkman was born in Hanover Germany 21 Nov 1840. He emigrated to the United States in 1859 and was in Cincinnati by 1870 working as a cabinet maker. He married Elizabeth Moeller in 1876. She was born in 1857 in Germany also. Frank joined the Confederate Army when the Civil War began. He served in Co. A, 4 KY Cavalry as a Musician–Chief Bugler. After the marriage, the family moved to Newport where Frank worked as a steamboat cook.

Children of Frank Brinkmann and Elizabeth Moeller

1. Frank Joseph Brinkman b-1 July 1877 in Newport; d-1 Feb 1941 in Newport; br-St Stephen Cemetery; m-Flora Anna Betz 24 Apr 1915 in Newport; Flora died in childbirth in 1920; m-2 Anna
2. George Fred Brinkman b-5 Sep 1879 in Newport; d-21 May 1963 in Newport; br-St Stephen Cemetery; m-Mary Ann Stadtmiller
3. Nettie Brinkman b-5 October 1883 in Newport; d-19 Jan 1919 in Southgate; br-Evergreen; never married
4. Mary Brinkman b-1887 in Newport
5. Albert Eldridge Brinkman b-16 Aug 1891 in Newport; d-8 Sep 1941 in Cincinnati; br-St Joseph New Cemetery in Cincinnati

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Elizabeth Moeller Brinkman died 22 August 1901 in Newport and was buried in St John's Cemetery. By 1910 Frank, a widower, was living in Southgate and working as a bridge contractor, meaning at the time he stationed and collected fares on the bridge from Newport over to Covington.

Frank died 21 June 1916 in Southgate of diabetes and was buried 24 June in Evergreen.

Elizabeth Brinkman 1901 obituary.

Frank Joseph Brinkman 1916 obituary.

 

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