This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DEBRUNNER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fm.2ADI/254 Message Board Post: My DEBRUNNER family was in Chanute Kansas in the late 1870s and early 1880s before they left by train for "the first place that has a nice boardwalk and a nice school". There youngest son, John George b. 1881 had a terrible wheat allergy and the family had to move. Vitus DeBRUNNER (sometimes seen with 1 "n") b 1843 came from Switzerland to New York. His fiance latter joined him and she Christina MUELLER and Vitus married in NY in 1862. Vitus played violin for the Philharmonic for a period of time. The couple moved to Kansas (where I notice there are other DeBrunners) and began their family. Mary and Annie were born first, then John George. The family got off that train in Pomona California and continued their lives from there. John George met and married Edna Cornelia MAYNARD and continued the DEBRUNNER line . . . Mary DEBRUNNER m. R. Monroe THURMAN Annie DEBRUNNER m. CORWIN