Major Paul Kiffen DeBruhl USA World War ll

Major Paul Kiffen DeBruhl USA WWll

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Paul Kiffin DeBruhl served his country in the U.S. Army in the European theatre during the Second World War. he was medically retired due to severe injuries  and loss of one lung which gave him problems his life time.
Major DeBruhl landed in Normandy June 19, nine days after D-Day, with the 79th Division and first saw action at Cherbourg. The battle  for the city itself was terrific, he recalled. After Cherbourg, he moved to St.Lo where he took part in the Famous Breakthrough. The 79th was moving ahead along the Seine near Paris August 10 and Maj.DeBruhl,commanding several advance patrols was ordered to take one of two hills that surrounded the division. The Germans retreating were moving so fast they bypassed Maj.DeBruhl and a communications Sgt. who had hidden in a ditch. Units of Maj.DeBruhls battalion were the first American forces to cross the Seine at Paris.On August 15, he was wounded in the back by shell fragments and on October 23 he was wounded a second time seriously.
Reference;Personal conversations with Paul and an account of an interview with Clarence Gantt of the Asheville Times,Asheville,N.C.  Major DeBruhl was awarded the Silver Star.

William Jesse DeBruhl

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ID: I364 Name: Jesse DeBruhl Surname: DeBruhl Given Name: Jesse Sex: M Birth: 24 Aug 1796 in Kershaw Co., SC Death: 20 May 1860 in Columbia Co., SC Burial: 24 May 1860 First Presby,Columbia,SC _UID: 3DC033574827964A9C1101B732CC3D8B01E9 Note: see 1860 Richland Co (July 16)., census; there is also a Jessie in FL at this time (July 6) - may be same person just counted twice?? Yes, see Abbeville SC Equity Records 1830's was a Richland Co sheriff portrait at Smithsonian Debruhl Marshall House It was in this home that the Confederate General Joseph E. Johnstone, made his headquarters in 1864-1865. When it was vacated by Johnstone, it seemed good to General Sherman's soldiers as fuel for their extensive conflagration and was about to be set in flames when Mrs. John S. Wiley, Jesse DeBruhls widow who was a very young and beautiful woman, appealed directly to General Sherman, whose headquarters were located directly behind the house on the next street. She begged that her home be spared, the soldiers heart softened and he ordered that guards be placed around the house Seventeen year old William Ashley DeBruhl Jr. by his first wife Eliza Donavon was killed in a hunting accident the only son of William Jesse DeBruhl Sr. The 1860 census shows William Jesse DeBruhl age 4 years. Both father and son were alive July 16, 1860. The following story mentions "oil cloth" which was introduced in the 1860's. Dr. Samuel Fair treated the DeBruhl lad and ended up marrying the boys sister Mary DeBruhl. But another document lists Dr Fair being married to Mary DeBruhl in 1853! Evidence points to William Ashley DeBruhl Jr. being born in 1841 and getting killed in a hunting accident around 1852. Doctor Fair treats the boy and marrys his sister Mary DeBruhl. The second wife of Jesse DeBruhl Sr. has a baby boy in 1856 and names him William Jesse DeBruhl. This lad shows up in the 1860 census as living in the DeBruhl Marshall House at 1401 Laurel Street Columbia, S.C. Light Went Out, so Did a Life. Another instance of what proved to be a forerunner of death occurs to me. William Ashley DeBruhl age 17, the only son of Mr. Jesse DeBruhl by his first wife, while shooting bull-bats, received a load of small shot in the head from a gun in the hands of a young man named Bird, a very gentlemanly appearing stranger, (Mr. Bird introduced family painted oil-cloth table covers here--something new.) It was clearly an accident, but poor Bird was completely broken down by it. I was present when the shooting occurred. We were boarding at the time at the Globe Hotel, kept by Mr. William Reeder and his wife, where the post office now stands. Fearful of worrying young DeBruhl's relatives by his appearing at the house, he engaged me to go twice a day to inquire about the wounded youngster. The patient seemed to be doing very well, although the physicians could see no hopes for his recovery. This was in the oil lamp days. One night while the solitary lamp in the sick room was apparently burning all right, it suddenly went out. Young DeBruhl noticed it, turned to his mother and said quietly, " I know what that sign means--goodbye," and died before the lamp could be relighted. Dr. Samuel Fair, of Newberry, who had graduated in Paris and lately begun the practice of medicine in Columbia, attended the young man, and afterwards married his sister. The grave is unmarked in the Presbyterian Church yard. by Jullian Selby S.C. 975.73 South Carolina Gazeteer. Change Date: 8 Nov 2010 at 00:00:00 Father: Edward Cornwallis DeBruhl b: 10 Dec 1749 in Halifax,,Nova Scotia, Canada c: 16 Dec 1749  Mother: Patience Stevens b: ABT 1772 in ,,VA Marriage 1 Eliza Donavan b: 1799/1800 in ,,SC Married: ABT 1816 in ,,SC Children  Mary D DeBruhl b: 22 Feb 1817 in ,,SC  Annie B DeBruhl b: ABT 1821 in ,,SC  Harriet B DeBruhl b: ABT 1822 in ,,SC  Edward DeBruhl b: ABT 1824 in SC  William Ashley DeBruhl b: ABT 1825 in ,,SC  William J DeBruhl b: 1825 in Columbia SC  Elizabeth A DeBruhl b: 1827 in ,,SC Marriage 2 Mary Cornelia Huson b: 13 Apr 1834/1836 in VA Married: ABT 1855 in SC Children  William Jesse DeBruhl b: 2 Oct 1856/1859 in Columbia, SC