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From: "Sandra Ferguson" <>
Subject: Lewis Bonnett
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:51:45 -0400


As an early Easter gift (we give presents for EVERYTHING around here!),
my daughter gave me a plate she'd found, with the image of Lewis Bonnett.
It says he was born near Wheeling, Ohio Co, VA in 1778 (also, death info),
and on the back "Presented by Mr and Mrs George W. Bowers, Mannington WV, at
the Bonnett Reunion, August, 1937."
She got it for me because of my interest in Ohio Co Va/WV history
.....my own maternal family got there by a fluke, and settled....my several
times great grandparents were coming up the Ohio by steamboat, when it
struck a tree and they had to 'put into' Wheeling, VA, for repairs. While
there my greatgreat grandfather, Reuben Bullard, decided to accept a job
offered him there, went on to establish a printing business, and the family
stayed from1844 till 1959. (my husband refers to what struck the steamboat
as 'my family tree'!!!).
Anyway, I decided to do a bit of research on the fella on the plate,
Lewis Bonnett, and to my GREAT surprise, here is yet another tie to Chester
Co....according to a site I found, .the original emigrant, Jean Jacques
Bonnet and his wife were originally from Friedrichstahl, in Baden, Germany,
and emigrated here sometime before 1733, the date of their first PA born
child. A site I found says that their child, LEWIS BONNET, was born in Feb
of 1737 , married Elizabeth Waggoner in Paoli and died in 1808, Ohio Co, WV.
(he. As the Lewis of the plate was said to have been born in1778, I imagine
he was the son of grandfather Jean and father, Lewis?
Does anything know anything about this family? Its strange, though,
that so many of the things I've 'picked up', through the years, have
unknowingly (by me, at least) had ties to Chester.....go figure!
So, any Bonnet ancestors out there?


Sandra




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