Shasta County
Biographies
Peter F. Terbush
Peter F. Terbush a native of New York was born about 1820. Terbush was one of the earliest settlers of Shasta County arriving in the Fall of 1849. The forty‑niner spent the Winter mining away on the Trinity River but did not strike any valuable claims in that territory. Terbush returned to Shasta County the following year, and in the general election of 1852 he became a Deputy County Assessor.
His occupation was farming and he owned a ranch located on Dry Creek in Western Shasta near Piety Hill, which is now the relocated town of Igo. It was Peter F. Terbush and John C. Spencer a resident of Horsetown, that founded the Eagle Creek Debating Club in 1861. Spencer was the proprietor of the Spencer Hotel at Horsetown, located in the Clear Creek territory.
The Eagle Creek Debating Club gathered in the Eagle Creek School house, to debate about news of local interest, and this was not a private club it was open to the public. The settlement of Eagle Creek became the town of Ono in 1883.
The forty‑niner died at Shasta City on January 1, 1866, due to paralysis from injuries of the spine. Terbush left a widow and five children to mourn his death. Burial was made in the Igo Cemetery.
Contributed by Jeremy M. Tuggle
Resource: The Shasta Courier, Saturday, January 6, 1866. Obituary of Peter F. Terbush.
The Northern Argus, Saturday, April 20, 1861.
Mrs. Salome Bicking-Bruning.
Another Pioner Gone. We are again called upon to chronicle the death of another Shasta pioneer. Last Saturday evening Mrs. Slome Bruning, while conversing pleasently with a neighbor, was suddenly stricken with paralysis and fell to the ground in the yard at her residence on Main St., (Shasta City.) She was carried into the house where she lay speechless and seemingly unconcious, breathing heavily, until Tuesday morning when death came.
Mrs. Bruning was a native of Alsace and aged 68 years, 2 months and 4 days. She came to New York when in her teens and was married to Jacob Bicking at Chicago. Her husband came to California and soon afterwards she joined him in Shasta, leaving New York by steamship, February 28, 1852, and coming by the Panama route to San Francisco.
Her first husband died a number of years ago and she afterwards married Henry Bruning who also died some years ago. She was the mother of eight children, seven by her first husband and one by the second. Of these two sons survive her, George J. Bicking and Edward Bruning.
Mrs. Bruning was a woman of much force of character of generous disposition and many excellent quallites which secured for her a large circle of warm friends. her tastes were domestic, and the home circle and its wants, always received her careful and kindest attention and supervision.
The funeral which took place Tuesday evening, was largely atted and showed the respect and esteem in which the departed was held. The remains were laid to rest in the family plot in the pioneer cemetery, Judge Bush, of Redding, making feeling remarks appropriate to the sad occasion, C.H. Behrens reading the burial service.
The surviving sons, bereft of an affectionate mother, have the sympathy of the community in the affliction that has taken from them the best friend they can ever know.
Contributed by Jeremy M. Tuggle
Transcribed from the Shasta Courier, Saturday, August 15, 1896. Obituary of Mrs. Salome (Bicking-Bruning).