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Harrison Co Marriages 1785-1894:
James Bonnet & Martha Hughes, d/o Jesse, 3/6/1791
Bob Tanner says the marriage was 21 Feb 1791
Elizabeth is linked as a daughter because of the obit of her daughter Elizabeth Wolfe
L. V. McWhorter's "Border Settler's of Northwestern Virginia":
MARTHA, born in December, 1773, captured by the Indians,
December, 1787; returned from captivity, December, 1790; married
Jacob Bonnett in 1792, a brother to John Bonnett who was killed
on the Little Kanawha, and lived all her life near West's Fort,
now Jane Lew, just below the main road and opposite the present
Methodist Episcopal Church, where she died in December, 1834, and
was buried at the old Harmony Church Cemetery on Hacker's Creek.
Her grave is marked by a plain sandstone slab, on which is the
following inscription:
MARTHA, DAUGHTER OF JESSE HUGHES
BORN DECEMBER, 1773
MADE PRISONER BY THE INDIANS DEC., 1787
RETURNED FROM CAPTIVITY, 1790
MARRIED JACOB BONNETT, 1792
DIED DEC., 1834
AGED 61 YEARS.
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