William Brussow was born in Germany in 1838 and when a small boy came with
  his family to America, settling in Wisconsin. In 1857 he joined a company going
  to Kansas. He took a claim on Lyons Creek about three miles above where the
  Lyona Church was afterward built. He improved his land and lived on it until
  his death in 1892.
       Mina Ollhoff was born in Germany in 1840. At the age of 17, her mother
  having died, she came with her father and other relatives to America arriving
  in Wisconsin in 1857. The following year she came to Kansas and settled in the
  Lyona community. In 1865 she married William Brussow. They reared five children -
  one son and four daughters. After the death of her husband, Minnie Brussow lived
  in Woodbine next door to her son and his wife, who cared for her for many years.
  She died July 17, 1931, just five days before the death of her son, William Frank 
  Brussow.   
               
  Source: Woodbine, Kansas Centennial, 1887 - 1987, 
          Woodbine through the years pg. 68
          Submitted by Estelle Brussow