Person:Laurent Brickner (18)

memory from son, James: Laurent, along with his children would pick uphis father, Johnny Brickner, and go into Bascom church at St. Patrick's.Laurent's wife, Ruth, was not a church goer at that time. She was on andoff through the years with attending masses

1. ↑ St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tiffin, Seneca Co., Ohio records, Subject:Baptisms Marriages Deaths and First communions, Film: film: MS-891. (Center for Archival Collections, Jerome Library, BGSU, Bowling Green,Ohio, 43403)
   baptisms.
2. ↑ Probate Court records, Seneca County, Ohio
   Book 5 page 8A.
3. ↑ The Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune, Location: Tiffin, Ohio
   http://www.oweb.com/advertiser-tribune/Text/Obits033099.html.
4. ↑ Ruth (Zimmerman) Brickner. Ruth (Zimmerman) Brickner, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn, Informant Address:Tiffin, OH.
5. ↑ Obituary. (further information available upon request).
6. ↑ St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tiffin, Seneca Co., Ohio records, Subject:Baptisms Marriages Deaths and First communions, Film: film: MS-891. (Center for Archival Collections, Jerome Library, BGSU, Bowling Green,Ohio, 43403)
   Baptisms.
7. ↑ Ruth (Zimmerman) Brickner. Ruth (Zimmerman) Brickner, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn, Informant Address:Tiffin, OH.
8. ↑ United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626).
9. ↑ United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626)
   ED#74-20; sheet 6B; image 12.
10. ↑ Ruth (Zimmerman) Brickner. Ruth (Zimmerman) Brickner, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn, Informant Address:Tiffin, OH.
11. ↑ Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).
12. ↑ The Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune, Location: Tiffin, Ohio.
13.   James Herbert Brickner. interview on family to James Herbert Brickner, Interviewer: Kristina KuhnKrumm, Informant Address: Tiffin, Ohio. (2004; by phone and in person).
14. ↑ Sponsors were Joseph L Brickner and Rose Brickner
15. ↑ renting their home for $10
16. ↑ renting a home owned by Henry Brickner located at the intersection of"old fostoria road" and S.R. 18. Before this they had rented half abrick home owned by Hammer on SR 18 just 1/4 mile from this pointtowards Bascom. Memory of Ruth:
    
    "Laurent and I were the only ones that didn't move home (with their folksduring depression). We never moved out. We kept our own. We leftHammer's and moved to Brickner's. We didn't have no electricity outthere. My iron, my washer, my sweeper, lamps... nothing worked. We got acouple cows, we had plenty of ground. Laurent raised potatoes and soldthe potatoes. Yea, we made it go.
    We was one of the few though. There was very darn few people that madeit on their own, but Laurent was a worker. Laurent never laid down onthe job. We milked cows. We had two cows. His mother helped us get that.Then we had our own milk and we sold cream. We got a (cream) separater,run it (milk) through the seperator and sold cream. We churned our ownbutter. We had all the milk we could use. And then I canned everythingthat there was to be canned. Man, I used to have a bunch of cannedgoods. I even canned strawberries, they ain't very good canned but itwas "sumptin" to eat. We had a lot of chickens. We hatched then. Wewould set the old hen on some eggs, and she'd hatch out chickens. Wealways raised a couple pigs and butchered them every year. We gave themmilk from the cows after we run it through the seperator. We'd take thatskim milk and go out to give it to the hogs. Boy did they grow on that.They have good meat. Old Henry Brickner owned the place, and for thepigs, we'd take ears of corn out of his crib. He told Laurent to goahead and use the corn, and keep track of how much it is. How much youuse and then he sold it to us real cheap. We worked like dogs there, butwe always lived good. Our kids never did without during that. We gotmarried in '29 and Depression started in '30 until about '38 we had fourkids. That didn't help any either."
17. ↑ "Gem Manufacturing retiree Laurent J. Brickner, 93, 1340 Woodland Ave.,died in St. Catherine of Bloomville at 6:43 p.m. Sunday, March 28, 1999.He was born in Bascom July 14, 1905, to John and Frances (Baldauf)Brickner. On Feb. 9, 1929, in St. Wendelin Catholic Church, Fostoria, hemarried Ruth G. Zimmerman. She survives. Other survivors include threesons, Dr. Eugene Brickner of Akron and James H. and Larry Brickner, bothof Tiffin; three daughters, Patricia Smith, Mrs. Donald (Phyllis) Kuhnand Mrs. Paul (Pamela) Bonnell, all of Tiffin; a sister, Ruth Swisher ofAdrian, Ohio; 24 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and fivegreat-great-grandchildren.He also was preceded in death by two sisters,Evelyn Reindl and Mabel Sager; five brothers, Roman, Wade, Michael,Ralph and Clem Brickner; and two grandchildren. Mr. Brickner, avolunteer at St. Vincent DePaul, had been employed as a machinist at theGem Manufacturing in Bascom for 53 years. He was a member of St. MaryCatholic Church. A funeral Mass in St. Mary Catholic Church will be at9:30 a.m. Wednesday, with the Rev. Frank A. Murd as celebrant. TheRosary will be recited at the church at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday. Burial willbe in Seneca Memory Gardens. Visitation is 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. today at theHoffmann-Gottfried Funeral Home, where a Wake service will be at 8:45.Memorials may be made to St. Vincent DePaul."