Christian Brunner
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| − | Christian Brunner (or Bruner), and his wife Maria (Mary) were a Swiss German couple who traveled overland to California in 1846. After their arrival they settled near Sutter's Fort. | + | Christian Brunner (or Bruner), and his wife Maria (Mary) were a Swiss German couple who traveled overland to [[California]] in 1846. After their arrival they settled near [[Sutter's Fort]]. |
| − | Another group of 1846 emigrants, the Donner Party, was not so fortunate. They were trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada and forced to spend the winter there. Many starved to death. They following spring rescuers set out from the California settlements and brought out the survivors, including the five orphaned daughters of George Donner. Christian and Mary Brunner took in the two youngest, Georgia and Eliza, aged four and five. The little girls called the Brunners "Grandma" and "Grandpa." | + | Another group of 1846 emigrants, the [[Donner Party]], was not so fortunate. They were trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada and forced to spend the winter there. Many starved to death. They following spring rescuers set out from the California settlements and brought out the survivors, including the five orphaned daughters of George Donner. Christian and Mary Brunner took in the two youngest, Georgia and Eliza, aged four and five. The little girls called the Brunners "Grandma" and "Grandpa." |
| − | "A few months later [they] moved to Sonoma where they opened a butcher shop and dairy. The dairy on Second Street East, about two blocks south of the plaza. The butcher shop on First Street East, a few doors north of where First joins Napa Street" (Robert Parmalee, "Pioneer Sonoma") | + | "A few months later [they] moved to [[Sonoma County, California|Sonoma]] where they opened a butcher shop and dairy. The dairy on Second Street East, about two blocks south of the plaza. The butcher shop on First Street East, a few doors north of where First joins Napa Street" (Robert Parmalee, "Pioneer Sonoma") |
During the Gold Rush "At the Christian Brunner home, two blocks or so from the plaza, Mrs. Brunner opened Sonoma's first hospital where under the oak trees she attempted to care for the miner's ills. Eliza Donner was by this time about seven and able to help her adopted grandmother by bringing water to the sick and in other ways assisting around the informal hospital." (Robert Parmalee, ibid) | During the Gold Rush "At the Christian Brunner home, two blocks or so from the plaza, Mrs. Brunner opened Sonoma's first hospital where under the oak trees she attempted to care for the miner's ills. Eliza Donner was by this time about seven and able to help her adopted grandmother by bringing water to the sick and in other ways assisting around the informal hospital." (Robert Parmalee, ibid) | ||
