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Mary Ann Brunner was a German, but a member of Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church. She is listed in the Rocky Springs session book of 1833. The only other Bruner who was listed in the session book was Selena Bruner who was dismissed in 1851. Mary Bruner being a German seems insignificant now but that wasa rare occurance back in the 1840s. The Germans refused to live with the Scotch-Irish in the Backcountry over the slavery issue. The majority of the Germans refused to hold slaves. As a demarcation boundary, the Germans settled on the south bank of the Saluda River. That German settlement spread down the Saluda and atthe fork of the Broad and Saluda Rivers, it is now called The Dutch Fork. Dutchmeant Deutsch which is German in their language.
Mary Ann Bruner married Whitner Richard Taylor and they lived between Cold Water and Scuffletown, S.C. Fortheir children, see Whitner Richard Taylor on spouse link. It is not known whenMary Bruner Taylor died. This generation endured the War of Northern Aggressionand Reconstruction after the war. Many graves went unmarked during these decades. Mary Bruner Taylor's grave is located to the left of the 1st magnolia tree along with her husband and father-in-law and mother-in-law in the Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery. The are fieldstone marked. (see grave locator)
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