Notes for Jacob and Rachel:
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JACOB D. BONZO, son of Peter Lewis Bonzo and Rebecca Brooks, was born March 23, 1848, and died in 1911 or 1913. He married RACHEL RUNYAN. She was born in 1860, and died in 1935. There were no children to this union.
JACOB D. BONZO:
CENSUS: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
From the Bonzo history by Rex Bonzo: "...no children. He was in a wheelchair for many years."
Bonzo Family researcher find that there were no children to the marriage, but that Jacob had a daughter out of wedlock. No other info was found for this child. Tombstone has 1848-1911 according to Bonzo folder Beaver County Historical Library. Jacob rests at Upper Presbyterian Cemetery.
RACHEL RUNYAN:
CENSUS: 1900, 1910, 1920
From Mary (Esther Runyun) May: " She was my father's Aunt."
"Rachel Bonzo 78 acres New Brighton, Marion Township." according to the 1917 Beaver County Farm Directory (reprinted by tri-state Genealogical Society, East Liverpool, Ohio 43920 1984.)
