{"id":588,"date":"2014-03-14T18:49:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T23:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?page_id=588"},"modified":"2014-03-14T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T23:49:14","slug":"brasel-benjamin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/brasel-benjamin\/","title":{"rendered":"Brasel, Benjamin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><b>Benjamin Brasel<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Born 11\/13\/1855&#8211;Died 12\/15\/1935<\/p>\n<p>Spanish-American War Veteran<br \/>\nTwo-term Sheriff of Morgan County.<\/p>\n<p>Son of\u00a0Jessie and Susan Honeycutt Brasel<br \/>\nGrandson of John and Rhoda Stonecipher Brasel<br \/>\nG-Grandson of James and Nancy Hall Brasel<br \/>\nG-G-Grandson of\u00a0\u00a0Richard &amp; Obedience Snow Braswell<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nBuried in Brasel Cemetery<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/Benjamin1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OBITUARY OF BENJAMIN BRASEL<br \/>\nDecember 19, 1935<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Brasel, 80, Spanish American War veteran, died in Veteran&#8217;s hospital at Johnson City Sunday morning.\u00a0 Mr. Brasel is survived by six children, Mrs. D. A. McPeters, Harriman, Mrs. Walter McPeters, Strawberry Plains; Mrs. Jack Wilson Rockwood, Mrs. Harry Kreis, Wartburg, Blaine Brasel, Rockwood, Ray Brasel, Oakdale; 29 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.\u00a0 Mr. Brasel was a member of the Baptist Church.\u00a0 Funeral services were held at his home church, Liberty, Tuesday at 10 o&#8217;clock.\u00a0 Burial was in Union burying ground near Wartburg where Mr. Brasel made his home.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/ObitBenBrasel.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/BraselGrave.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grave\u00a0of\u00a0\u00a0Ben Brasel,\u00a0\u00a0buried Brasel Cemetery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/Sarah1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><span>Sarah F. Wilson Brasel\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Born 4\/13\/1856. Died 2\/26\/1915\u00a0wife of Ben<\/p>\n<p>Daughter of\u00a0\u00a0Charles and Abanatha Wilson<\/p>\n<p>They had 12 children the youngest\u00a0was my grandmother Lillian.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/FredAddieEdie3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>FRED ADOLPHUS\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0B. 10\/10\/1878\u00a0\u00a0 D.04\/1934 \u00a0Fred, Addie and Edie<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/BlaineAnniechild2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>JAMES BLAINE\u00a0<span>B. 12\/11\/1884\u00a0\u00a0 D.&#8211; \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Blaine, Annie and Child<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/Bessie,Ida,Lillian2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BESSIE MELINDA\u00a0B. 02\/02\/1892\u00a0\u00a0 D.&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>IDA LEE \u00a0 B. 04\/28\/1896\u00a0\u00a0 D.&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">\u00a0<\/span>LILLIAN MYRTLE \u00a0 \u00a0B. 10\/16\/1899\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 D. 2\/13\/1997<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/Ida2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>IDA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Brasel Born 11\/13\/1855&#8211;Died 12\/15\/1935 Spanish-American War Veteran Two-term Sheriff of Morgan County. Son of\u00a0Jessie and Susan Honeycutt Brasel Grandson of John and Rhoda Stonecipher Brasel G-Grandson of James and Nancy Hall Brasel G-G-Grandson of\u00a0\u00a0Richard &amp; Obedience Snow Braswell . Buried in Brasel Cemetery OBITUARY OF BENJAMIN BRASEL December 19, 1935 Benjamin Brasel, 80, Spanish&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/brasel-benjamin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brasel, Benjamin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-588","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}