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Dr Enos Thompson Bonney

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Dr Enos Thompson Bonney

Birth
Farmington, Franklin County, Maine, USA
Death
6 Aug 1869 (aged 34)
Bellville, Austin County, Texas, USA
Burial
Quitman, Clarke County, Mississippi, USA
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Son of Hannah and Hervey Bonney of Maine and Massachusetts, (descendant of Elder William Brewster who arrived on the Mayflower). He migrated westward with his brothers and graduated from medical school at Keokuk, Iowa in 1855. Before the Civil War he was a young doctor in Bellville, TX. During the War, the citizens of Galveston were so alarmed at the poor conditions of wounded Confederate soldiers, that funds were raised, medical supplies procured and all were sent to Quitman, MS. Young Dr. Bonney went also as one of the Confederate surgeons in charge of the hospital in Quitman until General Sherman's Union troops burned it down. In Quitman, he met and married Eliza Evans, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Sylvanus Evans. Eliza died one year after giving birth to their only child, Evans. After the war, Enos returned to Bellville, to prepare a new home for his infant son. Sadly in 1869, he died of "melancholia."

In the 1940s his grandsons Walter Bonney and Robert Bonney had his body exhumed at Bellville, TX and reinterred in Quitman, MS next wife Eliza and her parents Judge Sylvanus Evans and Mary Jane Marshall Evans.

Son of Hannah and Hervey Bonney of Maine and Massachusetts, (descendant of Elder William Brewster who arrived on the Mayflower). He migrated westward with his brothers and graduated from medical school at Keokuk, Iowa in 1855. Before the Civil War he was a young doctor in Bellville, TX. During the War, the citizens of Galveston were so alarmed at the poor conditions of wounded Confederate soldiers, that funds were raised, medical supplies procured and all were sent to Quitman, MS. Young Dr. Bonney went also as one of the Confederate surgeons in charge of the hospital in Quitman until General Sherman's Union troops burned it down. In Quitman, he met and married Eliza Evans, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Sylvanus Evans. Eliza died one year after giving birth to their only child, Evans. After the war, Enos returned to Bellville, to prepare a new home for his infant son. Sadly in 1869, he died of "melancholia."

In the 1940s his grandsons Walter Bonney and Robert Bonney had his body exhumed at Bellville, TX and reinterred in Quitman, MS next wife Eliza and her parents Judge Sylvanus Evans and Mary Jane Marshall Evans.

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