Eva Pearl Horine & Charles Jesse Azariah Bruss On their wedding day, April 7, 1907

Eva Pearl Horine (1887-1919)

Eva Pearl Horine Bruss and her son Herman Bruss, ca. 1909

K2 Eva Pearl Horine, born July 13, 1887, died January 12, 1919, of Influenza (view Death Certificate). She is buried in Fort Jefferson Cemetery, Fort Jefferson, Ohio. Eva married April 7, 1907 Charles Jesse Azariah Bruss, born 1879, died June 3, 1957. Jesse was a teacher in Arcanum, Ohio, and later a city letter carrier in Greenville. Jesse married (2) Pearl Sebring of Rossburg, Ohio.

JESSE BRUSS, MAIL MAN 36 YEARS, DIES

Mr. Bruss carried mail on city routes for 36 years prior to retiring in 1947. Earlier he was a teacher for several years in one and two-room schools in Butler township, Darke county, where he was born and reared. His birthplace was at what is known as Bruss' corner, which derived its name from his family.

He had resided at 509 Sweitzer street in Greenville, and for more than forty years and was a member of St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church here.

Surviving are his wife, Pearl; two sons, Herman of Columbus and Lowell of Greenville; a daughter, Mrs. Marilyn Ober of Springfield; eleven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a brother, Ed Bruss of Dayton and four sisters, Mrs. Lucy Oda and Mrs. Mary C. Tamplin, both of Piqua, and Mrs. Mina Baker and Mrs. Kemme Slonaker, both of Greenville.

Services will be held Thursday at two p.m. at the Zechar funeral home here with the Rev. A. Kenneth Kuhn officiating. Burial will be in the Fort Jefferson cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m., Wednesday.

Child of Eva Pearl Horine and Charles Jesse Azariah Bruss:

L1 Herman Vincent Bruss (at right with his mother, ca. 1909), born November 28, 1908, died March 29, 1964. Married December 24, 1927 Grace McGriff, born July 4, 1911 died April 8, 2005 in Columbus, Ohio; daughter of Gorman McGriff (born May 12, 1891, died June 17, 1959) and Bertha Mae Davis McGriff McGee (born January 31, 1893 and died August 15, 1935). Grace married (2) May 31, 1969 Clark Clayton Cornell, died December 27, 1991.