Russellville Weekly Rustler, Friday, January 12, 1912 Reinhardt Brenneissen, a former resident of Jefferson City, died last Tuesday in Chicago at the age of eighty-three years. He was a father of Mrs. John F. Tihen of this city. He was a pioneer of Cole County and was one of the men who crossed the plains in search of gold in 1849. For some thirty years he was an officer at the state penitentiary. For the past five years he has lived in Chicago.