“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  Dallas;
  Walsworth Publishing Company, 1892.

B.F. BRANDENBURG  is a farmer and stock-raiser, and is one of the well-
known citizens of Dallas county, his postoffice address being Duncanville.  
In brief, a review of his life is as follows:

B. F. Brandenburg was born in La Fayette county, Missouri, October 27, 
1842, the seventh son and ninth child of Absalom and Nancy (Barker) 
Brandenburg, natives of Kentucky.  Grandfather Samuel Brandenburg was 
probably a native of Virginia, and his father, Solomon, was a native of 
Germany.  Samuel Brandenburg moved to Kentucky, settled on a farm and 
reared four sons.  One of these, Absalom, married a daughter of James 
Barker, a native of Kentucky and of English descent.  In 1827, he emigrated 
to Missouri and located in La Fayette county, where he improved a farm and 
resided twenty years.  In 1847, with his wife and eight children, he started 
for Texas, his outfit consisting of four wagons – two drawn by horses and 
two by oxen – and a spring wagon, landing in Dallas county in the fall of 
that year.  Of Calvin G. Cole he purchased 257 acres, a part of which is now 
included in the city of Dallas.  He improved that property and purchased 
other lands until he owned 277 acres, on which he was engaged in farming, 
until his death, which occurred in 1872, at the age of eighty-one years.  His 
first wife died in 1863 and he was subsequently married to Mrs. Patton, by 
whom he had one child.

The subject of our sketch was five years old when he came to Texas.  He 
was reared on his father’s frontier farm and remained with him until the 
breaking out of the Civil war.  He enlisted in February, 1862, in Company C, 
Sixth Texas Cavalry; followed the fortunes of the Army of the Tennessee 
and served until the close of the war.  He then returned to Dallas county and 
engaged in farming.  He was married March 26, 1868, to Miss Sarah 
Josephine Merrifield, a native of Dallas county, Texas, and a daughter of 
William and Catherine (Hickman) Merrifield.  Her parents came from 
Kentucky to this place in 1849 and purchased 320 acres of wild land and 
resided there the rest of their days.  They had eight children who grew to 
maturity and seven are still living.  Mr. Merrifield died in November, 1880 
and his wife in 1882.

After the death of his father, Mr. Brandenburg removed to the old 
homestead, resided there nine years, and in 1883 moved to the Merrifield 
place.  He has a farm of 575 acres of improved land, all in a high state of 
cultivation.  His chief products are wheat, oats and corn.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Brandenburg are the parents of nine children:  William Henry, Hurbert 
Walter, Charles Lee, Lilly Catherine, James Franklin, Jesse James, Oscar 
Merrion, Maud and Alma.  Politically, Mr. Brandenburg is a Democrat.  His 
brothers, James and Thomas, were killed in battle during the late war, the 
latter being in command of his company at the time he was killed.

Submitted by: L. Pingel