Children of Henry Bonzo and Sadie Wilson:
Notes for Henry and Sadie:
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HENRY BONZO, son of Peter Lewis Bonzo and Rebecca Brooks, was born February 28, 1859, and died September 23, 1910. He married SARA JANE WILSON in November of 1891. She was born May 05, 1870, and died December 24, 1941. She is usually called Sadie.
Theophilus L. Bonzo was born in December of 1892 and died a month later in January of 1893 of typhoid fever. He rests at North Sewickley cemetery.
Mary Anna Bonzo married Carl Byron Runyan.
James Wilson Bonzo married Sue Ruth Moser.
HENRY BONZO:
CENSUS: 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
From the 1910 US Census: "Brother James, age 48, and Sister-in-law Emma, age 43, were living with Henry."
From Direct Descendants: Henry was the twin brother of Mary Anna. Henry and James bought the farm (100 acres) from their father's (Peter Lewis) estate at $50.00 and acre. They ran it together as the 'Bonzo Brothers Stock Farm', specializing in heavy draught horses, Belgians and Percherons. The farm was later owned by the Carbeau family and called Bilbobern Farms. Charles Carbeau purchased it from Mary Anna Bonzo Runyan in the 1940's. Henry died of typhoid fever contracted at the Butler County Fair where he had gone to show horses.
Obituary: 23 Sept 1910 New Castle News page 9; 27 Sept 1910 had been assumed previously.
Henry rests at North Sewickley cemetery.
SARA JANE WILSON:
CENSUS: 1900, 1910, 1920
Name and dates from the Bonzo history by Rex Bonzo. The 1910 census indicates 3 children -- 2 living. In 1920 "Sarah J. Bonzo" is living with her in-laws James C. Bonzo and wife Emma Smith Bonzo.
