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James Albert “Ab” Brinker

Birth
Bartholomew County, Indiana, USA
Death
10 Apr 1943 (aged 81)
Walesboro, Bartholomew County, Indiana, USA
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Walesboro, Bartholomew County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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James A. Brinker was married twice:
1. Ida Mabel Boyd, June 19, 1881, Jackson Co., Indiana
Ida was the daughter of Albert S. Boyd and Margaret Tinder. She died in Bartholomew Co., Feb. 12, 1884, burial place unknown. No known issue of this union.

2. Rosella Knott, August 13, 1885, Bartholomew Co., Indiana
They were parents of twelve children, five dying very young.

The Evening Republican
Columbus, Indiana
Sat., April 10, 1943
James A. Brinker, 81, died at 5 o'clock this morning at the home of a son, Dalton Brinker at Walesboro, following a stroke of paralysis which he suffered Friday morning. He had been ill for four years and bedfast for two weeks.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Bethel Baptist church, conducted by the Rev. Frederick Schlafer, pastor. Burial will be in Daugherty cemetery. The casket will be open at the Barkes and Albright funeral home Sunday morning and until the services.

Mr. Brinker was well known in the county and had followed the employment of digging ditches most of his life. He was known to most of his friends as "Ab the ditcher." He was a member of the Elizabethtown Christian church.

Besides the son at whose home he died, he is survived by five other children, Roy and Charles Brinker of Columbus rural route; Mrs. William Yeager of Montana, Mrs. Carl Gearhart and Mrs. Neal Brooks [Booker] of Columbus; a brother, Charles Brinker of this city; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
James A. Brinker was married twice:
1. Ida Mabel Boyd, June 19, 1881, Jackson Co., Indiana
Ida was the daughter of Albert S. Boyd and Margaret Tinder. She died in Bartholomew Co., Feb. 12, 1884, burial place unknown. No known issue of this union.

2. Rosella Knott, August 13, 1885, Bartholomew Co., Indiana
They were parents of twelve children, five dying very young.

The Evening Republican
Columbus, Indiana
Sat., April 10, 1943
James A. Brinker, 81, died at 5 o'clock this morning at the home of a son, Dalton Brinker at Walesboro, following a stroke of paralysis which he suffered Friday morning. He had been ill for four years and bedfast for two weeks.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Bethel Baptist church, conducted by the Rev. Frederick Schlafer, pastor. Burial will be in Daugherty cemetery. The casket will be open at the Barkes and Albright funeral home Sunday morning and until the services.

Mr. Brinker was well known in the county and had followed the employment of digging ditches most of his life. He was known to most of his friends as "Ab the ditcher." He was a member of the Elizabethtown Christian church.

Besides the son at whose home he died, he is survived by five other children, Roy and Charles Brinker of Columbus rural route; Mrs. William Yeager of Montana, Mrs. Carl Gearhart and Mrs. Neal Brooks [Booker] of Columbus; a brother, Charles Brinker of this city; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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