2,500 Attend Notable Reunion of Brubaker-Hershey Families

Largest Clan Gathering That Was Ever Held In Lancaster County Turns Peaceful Brubaker Homestead, Near Brunnerville, Into Scene of Memorable Social Event…

The first annual Brubaker-Hershey Family Reunion was held on the ancestral Brubaker Valley Road farm of Menno Brubaker, between Brickerville and Brunnerville, Elizabeth Township, in Lancaster County.

This was the first of two joint Brubaker-Hershey Family reunions held.  After 1920, the families held seperate reunions.

To the right is a newspaper article, publisher not known, from probably Monday, September 15th or Tuesday, September 16th, 1919. 

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