Bonzo Family Photo Album -- Theophilus Bonzo

THEOPHILUS BONZO, son of Jean Gabriel Bonzon and Mary F. Powell, was born April 07, 1845 in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and died May 27, 1938 in Madison township, Scioto County, Ohio.
He married (1) MARY RECORD January 26, 1867 in , Scioto County, Oh.. She was born November 17, 1847 in Madison township, Scioto County, Ohio, and died November 22, 1870 in Madison Township, Scioto County, Ohio.
He married (2) REBECCA DEVER (pictured above on her Wedding day) on January 04, 1874 in Scioto County, Ohio, daughter of Jackson Dever and Rebecca Matheny. She was born August 24, 1857 in Scioto County, Ohio, and died March 18, 1936.

THEOPHILUS BONZO:
CENSUS: 1850, 1860, 1880

LDS Film 1126140, Batch 7729404 Baptized LDS: February 02, 1978
Endowments LDS: February 02, 1978, SG

Marriage license clearly gives 4 January for marriage with Rebecca Dever, not 1 January (as stated in LDS records).

From a Bonzo Descendant: ...a story my father (Lyle Edgar Bonzo) told me about uncle Tuff. When I was growing up, Dad (Lyle) and I often walked over to the heavily wooded eighty acres where Tuff and Rebecca had lived. I loved to play in their abandoned log house. There was spring with good water that never went dry. Dad would make an event out of cleaning the leaves out of it after our long walk, and we'd get a cold drink. Aunt Becky's flowers still bloomed wild. (The owner, [...], eventually burned the log house down--which Dad thought was a terrible waste) Anyway, Dad would tell me about the pond Tuff had dug out by hand below the spring and how he'd stocked it with a delicious fish that no one else in the community had. (I think it was yellow perch...if there is such a thing.) Dad was a boy and lusted to go after those fish, but Tuff must have been afraid he'd fish them out, and only rarely let him fish there.
Anyway, there came a day when Tuff and Becky decided to move out west somewhere where their two boys lived. For whatever reasons, they eventually moved back and wished they'd not sold their farm. They moved into a house in Minford with only a small yard. Becky told my Dad that one morning Tuff woke up at the crack of dawn. She asked him what he was getting up so early for, and he said, "Get up Becky, we've got a big day. You know what we've got to do today!" The only thing scheduled was making a lettuce bed in their back yard. My Dad found the story both humorous and sad. Tuff had been used to hard farm work his whole life. Had complained to Dad that the farm was so hilly and uneven he couldn't even find a spot level enough to "set a milk bucket." But in his old age was so excited about making a lettuce patch he couldn't sleep.

Tuff rests at Mt Carmel Cemetery, Minford, Scioto County, Oh.

MARY RECORD:
From a Bonzo Family researcher: "Mary was born in 1849."
From Scioto County Death Records: "Mary died of consumption."
From www.scioto.org: Her marker reads "BONZO Mary w/o Theophilus 17 Nov 1847 22 Nov 1870"
Other information from LDS film: Batch 7729404, film 1126140 and Pearl (Kronk) cemetery, Scioto county, Ohio, where Mary rests

REBECCA DEVER:
CENSUS: 1880
Other information from LDS film: Batch 7729404, film 1126140. Several researchers give marriage as 1 Jan 1874, and birth date as April, 1856. Becky rests at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Minford, Scioto County, Oh.