Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWCZ-565
• Bopæl: USA; Price
• Bopæl: 1880, Springdale, Kane, Utah, United States
• Bopæl: 1900, Minnie Maud, Price, Sunnyside, Precincts Price town, Carbon, Utah, United States
• Bopæl: 1920, Price, Carbon, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1930, Sunnyside, Carbon, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1940, Price, Carbon, Utah, USA

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• AFN: 1KL4-43
• FSID: K2W3-49H
• Indvandring: 10 dec. 1856, Utah, USA
• Obituary: 16 feb. 1905, Utah, USA

Notater:

Heimatort: Illnau Effretikon bei seiner Geburt
SHORT HISTORY OF HANS ULRICH BRYNER JR.
-prepared by Barbara Redd MacPhee from longer histories by Lura Redd in “Redd Review”
Corrected 11 Sep 2017

Hans Ulrich Bryner Jr., the son of Hans Ulrich Bryner and Verena Wintsch was born in Illnau, Effretikon, Zurich, Switzerland, 22nd of April 1827. He died 8 March 1905 at St. George, Utah. His father was a shoemaker and young Ulrich, as they called him, picked up and delivered the shoes for his father. His parents were good religious Lutherans and taught their children to pray, to be obedient, honest, prompt, industrious and thrifty.

When Ulrich was ten years old, his father bought a large farm, which changed their lives. His mother no longer spent her time at the loom spinning thread for shoes, and his father left his cobbler's bench to look after the farm. Ulrich learned to do farming chores such as plowing, mowing and pruning. His sisters did the hoeing. Such things as weaving, spinning and knitting were done at night after the day in the fields. His father mended shoes at night while young Ulrich read the Bible to the family.

They were allowed to go to the best entertainments that came along. They attended school from age six to twelve and did very well in their studies. By the time Ulrich was grown, he could speak six or seven languages. They were a happy united family and were fairly well off. They were always grateful for their early training and for their heritage.

As a boy of 16, Ulrich was very sick, and began to think a lot about death. His best friend became sick at about that time, and he had died. Ulrich had feelings that he might die also. One night, he had a dream in which a man with grey beard and strange looking eyes took him by the hand and led him, in darkness, halfway around the world. Here the heavens opened and he saw the glorious city of Zion. There was a wall with three gates, but when Ulrich tried to go in, the man told him. “You can’t go through now, but if you are faithful and true, the time will come when you will be allowed to go.”

He told the dream to his family who, at first, thought it was from the delirium of his illness, but eventually, as he was so sure it was to come true, his family believed, but for years they pondered its meaning.

Ulrich learned the butchering trade. He entered contests which were held to encourage the workers to excel. His specialty was killing hogs he could kill, scald, scrape, hang and draw a hog faster than most anyone. He had won four cups as prizes. He received promotions until he became superintendent of the slaughterhouse. He was also buyer for the establishment and went about the country buying animals. His many languages came in handy in this assignment. He, wanted, eventually to get into government service and worked toward that end.

In 1849 he married Anna Maria Dorothea Mathys, who was born 14 July 1828 at Wiedikon, Zurich, Switzerland, daughter of Johannes and Anna Dorothea Meyer Mathys. Their first child, Mary, was born 23 June 1851 at Wiedikon. The only child Hans ever saw, in this life. They were happy and free from care for two years. Then one day at work, he was trying to beat his own record in preparing for another contest. He had the hog hanging up, and its foot slipped off the cross stick (gambrel) and struck him in the eye, splitting the pupil. Both eyes became infected. His parents took him to Germany to eye specialists, but antibiotics not yet developed, they could do nothing. He was blind.

Friends came to Maria saying "Give him up and let him go home to his parents, they are well enough off to take care of him. You don't want to be saddled with a blind man all the rest of your life. What can he do for you now? You would be better off without him."

But her mother said, "No, Maria will not desert him, he needs her now more than he ever did." Of course Maria stayed with him, but nothing could comfort him. Their home was one of mourning. They could see no future, and felt that all their happiness was completely destroyed.

One day as Maria sat by his side, her mother came in and said, "You can do nothing but pray about it perhaps the Lord will open a way for you. I believe the hand of the Lord is in it, for a whispering voice always says to me, "Don't feel sorry that Bryner is blind, it's good for you all but you don't know it yet." Ulrich's family was kind to them, and all were willing to provide for them, but Ulrich could not be happy. He felt that the Lord had cast him aside.

Now, after four long sorrowful months, Ulrich had another dream. He writes in his history, “I found myself in a great dark room with no glimmer of light. Three fires appeared, each of a different size. A man with a grey beard and peculiar eyes stood beside me. The same man I had seen before. He had an open book in his hands. He crossed out my sins and they fell to the floor. A voice said to me, “You will have to go through the middle fire.” I said, ‘I am able to stand that, too.’

“The wall opened so wide that we could pass through it. The light came in as bright as noon-day and we were shown the road to Zion. We had to cross the sea with a great company and take a long journey across the great prairie into the mountains to reach the City of Zion.” Hans knew from his vision of the fire that his life wasn't going to be easy and that troubles lay ahead for him.

A few months later, it was reported that Mormon missionaries were in the area. At Ulrich’s insistence his family walked the two hours to Zurich to see if the man of his dreams was there. His sister went up close to one of the missionaries who had a grey beard, and strange eyes. He was wearing very thick glasses and his eyes were crossed. Elder George Meyer was the man of the dream. He was invited to come to the Bryner home.

Here he preached the good news of the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ and the vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ to the Prophet Joseph Smith. These missionaries were invited to stay at the Bryner’s that night, and from that time on, the Bryner home became the headquarters for missionaries in that area of Switzerland. Ulrich and twelve of the Bryner and Mathys families were baptized.

Right away, the Bryners and Mathys wanted to join the Saints in Utah; and they began to make preparations for the long journey. They couldn't all go at once, so Hans’ brother, Casper and his wife, Barbara Ann, went first to lead the way and make preparations for the others to follow. The most ardent and thrilled of the group was Hans’ mother in law, Anna Dorothea Meyer Mathys. She worked hard and planned carefully for the trip, but she passed away before the sailing date. All the rest of the family, eventually came to USA and crossed the plains to Utah.

Because of political unrest, Swiss government forbade citizens to move from home areas. Consequently, they had to leave home under cover of darkness in order to make their way to the America. Forty-two days on the boat, “Enoch Train”, brought them from England to Boston. Then the long trip to Florence, Nebraska where they joined a wagon train for the 1000-mile, four-month trip across the Western Plains to the Salt Lake Valley.

There were many dangers and hardships. When the cattle stampeded, their wagon was upset. An older woman who was riding them, shielded little Mary with her body. Mary lived, but the heroic woman died. Also, the arm of the young driver they had hired was broken, which meant Maria had to assist her blind husband with the driving, acting as his eyes. Other times, when Hans was not driving, he held onto the back of the wagon, plodding along in the cloud of dust stirred up by the wheels.

Early winter storms battered them as they labored toward the mountains of Zion. Finally, they caught up with the tragic Martin Handcart Company, and were rescued near Martin’s Cove, by companies sent out by Brigham Young. After four grueling months of travel, they were met by Caspar, in Salt Lake, who took them home to Lehi. Later the two brothers farmed in Logan area, but eventually they were called to help settle Dixie. The land around St. George. Hans and Maria settled in the New Harmony area where they reared their family.

Lura wrote:
“Freighting at that time was the most remunerative job one could do, so Grandfather went into freighting. He had always been a good horseman, and knew all the angles. The only thing he lacked was his sight…As the children grew up, one went with their father to Salt Lake on freighting trips. They drove a four horse team ahead of him and Ulrich drove a single team that had been trained to follow … I guess they all had a turn to go with him on his freighting trips.

“Grandfather was not only a good judge of horses, he knew wagons. He had a very good, but not a new wagon. One day the young boys came in, all excited with the news that a man was here who would trade them a new wagon for their old one.

“When they told Grandfather, he said that sounded funny to him and said, ‘Let me look at that wagon.’ They took him out to see it… All seemed in order until he got behind it and measured the width of the box.

" ‘A narrow gauge wagon, I wouldn't have it if you gave it to me.’ All the wagons in the territory had been wide gauge, (and the deep ruts in the roads were made by them, so a narrow gauge Wagon would not fit into the ruts. It would be a bumpy ride. With left wheels in a deep rut or track, and right wheels way up out of the track.)

“About this time they took a load of freight out to Pioche, a booming mining town of that day …That night as they rested up for the trip home, a man came to the inn boss and asked if there was a blind man and a little boy in the grounds … So the inn man introduced him to them (Grandpa and the boy). He said he had a load of nails to take to Las Vegas. He only drove a buckboard which wasn't strong enough to c

Hans blev gift med Margaretha Kuhn den 1 nov. 1868 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Margaretha (datter af Hans Ulrich Kuhn og Regula Gut) blev født den 23 okt. 1839 i Effretikon, Zürich, Switzerland; blev døbt den 27 okt. 1839 i Effretikon, Zürich, Switzerland; døde den 19 feb. 1906 i Price, Carbon, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 22 feb. 1906 i Price, Carbon, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• AFN: 1KJ4-58
• FSID: KWJV-W4C

Notater:

Margaretha was born in Illnau, Zurich, Switzerland, the daughter of Hans Ulrich Kuhn and Regula Gut. She married a cousin, named Kuhn and had a boy, Godfred Henry Kuhn, b 1859, She evidently joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at an early age and probably emigrated to the Salt Lake Valley about 1860 when age 21, settling in Lehi, Utah. On November 1, 1868 she became the second wife of Hans Ulrich Bryner Jr. and moved to Southern Utah settling in Toquerville, about 25 miles north of St. George. Here she became the mother of ten children. When her husband died in 1905, she moved to be with her four daughters and son who were living in Price, Utah. She died there at age 67; almost exactly a year following the death of her husband.

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWVM-K5N
• Beskæftigelse: Schuhmacher
• Indvandring: 12 sep. 1857, Utah, USA

Notater:

Birth: Mar. 30, 1806
Zurich, Switzerland
Death: Mar. 1, 1862
Saint George
Washington County
Utah, USA

Hans Ulrich was born in Bassersdorf, Zurich, Switzerland, the son of Hans Jakob Bryner and Margaretha Homberger. He married Verena Wintsch March 29, 1826 in Bassersdorf. In 1854 he and his wife joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Three years later he, his wife Verena, his daughter Verena (age 25), and grandson Henry Gottfried (age 3) left Liverpool on the sailing ship "George Washington," arriving in Boston April 20, 1857. At age 51 he and his family arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the fall of 1857. His son Hans Ulrich Bryner Jr. had made the journey a year earlier in 1856. Hans Ulrich participated in the Cotton Mission Call to Dixie and died shortly after their arrival in Saint George, Utah where he is buried.

Family links:
Spouse:
Verena Wintch Bryner (1804 - 1896)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Saint George City Cemetery
Saint George
Washington County
Utah, USA
Plot: A-A-38-4-NH

Created by: lstrat
Record added: Mar 17, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 34918985

Hans blev gift med Verena Wintsch den 3 apr. 1826 i St. Peter, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. Verena (datter af Martin Wintsch og Regula Sauermann) blev født den 24 feb. 1804 i Volketswil, Zürich, Switzerland; blev døbt den 26 feb. 1804 i Volketswil, Zürich, Switzerland; døde den 20 aug. 1896 i Price, Carbon, Utah, USA; blev begravet i aug. 1896 i Saint George City Cemetery, Plot: A-A-38-3-WH, 650 East Tabernacle, St George, Washington, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWVM-K5F
• Indvandring: 12 sep. 1857, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1860, Weber, Utah, USA

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: K1DC-QZF

Hans blev gift med Regula Gut den 11 maj 1835 i Bisidon, Zurich, Switzerland. Regula blev født den 6 nov. 1807 i Wangen, Zürich, Schweiz; døde den 26 mar. 1878 i Effretikon, Zürich, Switzerland; blev begravet i mar. 1878. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• AFN: 2B33-RF
• FSID: LHXL-YHC

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: MHTX-VMD

Hans + Margaretha Homberger. Margaretha blev født den 1 dec. 1776 i Effretikon, Zürich, Switzerland; blev døbt den 1 dec. 1776 i Effretikon, Zürich, Switzerland; døde den 1 jan. 1837 i Illnau, Zürich, Switzerland; blev begravet den 4 jan. 1837 i Volketswil, Zürich, Switzerland. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWVQ-3BQ
• Navn: M Homberger
• Navn: Margreth Homberger

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: LKKM-216

Martin blev gift med Regula Sauermann den 29 maj 1802 i Effretikon, Zürich, Switzerland. Regula (datter af Hans Jacob Sauermann og Elisabeth Frei) blev født den 21 nov. 1779 i Volketswil, Zürich, Switzerland; blev døbt den 21 nov. 1779 i Effretikon, Zürich, Switzerland; døde den 30 okt. 1846 i Bisikon, Illnau-Effretikon, Zürich, Switzerland; blev begravet den 3 nov. 1846 i Effretikon, Zürich, Switzerland. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: L5F5-GMY

Konrad blev gift med Magdalena Fischer den 7 dec. 1801 i Illnau, Zürich, Switzerland. Magdalena blev født den 8 jan. 1778 i Hegnau, Volketswil., Zurich, Switzerland; døde den 15 jan. 1844 i Zürich, Switzerland. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]