Children of Mary Bonzo and August Schweinsberg:
Notes for Mary and August:
MARY BONZO, daughter of Peter Lewis Bonzo and Margaretta B. Zahler, was born June 18, 1830 in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and died March 19, 1915. She married FREDERICK AUGUST SCHWEINSBERG. He was born February 1824 in Heis(e)beck, Hessen, Germany, and died December 01, 1904 in Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
Christian Saylor Schweinsberg married (1) Margaret Catherine Murray and (2) Rebecca Centennial Smiley.
Margaret Schweinsberg was born about 1852, and died May 13, 1925. She married Henry Lewis who was born in January 1858. Margaret had been widowed by the time of the 1910 Census.
Wilhelmina Schweinsberg, AKA Mina, was born about 1854.
Sophia Schweinsberg was born about 1856 and died April 22, 1864. She rests at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Charles Schweinsberg married Elizabeth Ruckert.
Mary Ann Schweinsberg married Henry G. Steffler.
Abraham Schweinsberg was born about 1862.
Jennie Schweinsberg married John Devinney.
Ella Schweinsberg was born about 1868 and married James Connor who was born about 1867. Their daughter, Lucy, born about 1901, married Leo P. Bittner. Lucy and Leo's daughter, Virginia L. Bittner, was born about 1918.
MARY BONZO:
CENSUS : 1850, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
Birth and death dates and burial site are from the obituary in the Saturday, March 20, 1915, Beaver Falls Evening Tribune and from death certificate. Died 6 PM (Register's docket 11 page 311) (7:30 P.M. on death certificate.) Birth and Baptism dates are from St. Paul's German Lutheran and Reformed Church records (Zelienople, PA), which gives the name as Maria and the birth as 18 Jan 1830. Mary was Christened on November 14, 1830, and rests at Mount Hope Cemetery, Wayne Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
FREDERICK AUGUST SCHWEINSBERG:
Death date is from the December 1, 1904 obituary in Beaver Fall's The Daily Tribune. Birth month is from the 1900 census. August immigrated in 1840, arriving in Baltimore on the ship Active from Bremen on July 23. The hometown of Heisebeck is listed on the passenger list obtained from the federal archives. Ross Smiley stated August was buried in Mt. Hope. The obituary says burial would be in Burry's Church (St. Johns) in Marion Township., but a later note says the body was taken to Wurtemburg. August owned a plot in Mt. Hope (near Wurtemburg) on which are erected headstones for his father and one daughter.
CENSUS : 1850, 1870, 1880, 1900
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