B. L. BONNETT

BONNETT

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 13:35:56

B. L. BONNETT was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, November 30, 1839. His parents, Simon and Marinda (Boggs) Bonnett, natives of Virginia, were married in Ohio. The Bonnetts are of English origin, and grandfather Bonnett was a soldier in the war of 1812. Grandfather Ezekiel Boggs was a native of the Old Dominion. B. L. Bonnett is one of a family of three sons and three daughters. The mother died January 25, 1879, at the age of sixty years, and the father is now living at Gambier, Knox county, Ohio, and is classed with the octogenarians. He has been a farmer all his life; is a Republican in politics and a Methodist in religion.

The subject of our sketch was a lad of twelve years when his father moved to Knox county, Ohio, and there he grew up on a farm and received his education in the public schools. During the war he enlisted, November 13, 1861. in Company K, Forty- third Ohio Infantry, and served most creditably until January 15, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Pocataligo, South
Carolina. Returning to Ohio via New York and Buffalo, he spent six weeks in Mount Vernon, and then came west. After living four years in Muscatine county, Iowa, he sold out his interests there and came to Adams county. In 1871 he settled on wild prairie land in section 10, Lincoln township, where he now resides. Here he owns eighty acres of well improved land.

Mr. Bonnett was married in Knox county, Ohio, February 27, 1860, to Jane Horn, who was born and reared in Knox county. Her parents, Isaac and Pheobe (Ulery) Horn, natives of Pennsylvania and residents of Knox county, Ohio, reared a family of nine children. Mr. and Mrs. Bonnett have two children, viz.: Luella A., born October 22, 1865, is the wife of Joseph Krouth, of Lincoln township, this county, and has one daughter, Clara May, and Elmer E. Ellsworth, born
March 11, 1869, who resides with his parents.

Mr. Bonnett is a Republican, and a member of the G. A. R., Jake Miller Post, No. 484, of which he is Quartermaster.