Jacob Bonnett

1761 - Abt 1847  (86 years)

• Name	Jacob Bonnett
  Born	1761	Frederick Co, VA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1847  [1]
  Person ID	I4094	WVPioneers
  Last Modified	24 May 2005

  
  

  Father	Samuel Bonnett,   b. Between 1734 and 1740, Paoli, Chester Co., PA ,   d. 17 Dec 1789, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Mother	Mary Elizabeth Lorentz,   b. 1741,   d. 15 Oct 1819, Lewis County, West Virginia, USA  (Age 78 years)
  Married	Between 1755 and 1760
  Family ID	F2605	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha Hughes,   b. Dec 1773,   d. Dec 1834  (Age ~ 61 years)
  Married	6 Mar 1791	Harrison County, West Virginia, USA   [2]
  Notes	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.
  Children	1. Elizabeth Bonnett,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Jacob H Bonnett,   b. 28 Dec 1802, Lewis County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 6 Jul 1881, Roane County, West Virginia, USA  (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F1410	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1761 - Frederick Co, VA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S204] Hughes Family. [S72] Marriage Records, Harrison Co, WV.