Jane Elkins Bonney married Jarius Abijah Bonney before the overland trip to Oregon. Her history included a partial scalping.
One report states:
Jane's orginal family name is unknown. She was the lone survivor of an attack near Buffalo, NY appx 1801, and partially scalped. The Elkins raised her, and she married Jarius Bonney before coming to Oregon via Ohio and ILL leaving from MO.
Above notes given to me by FAG member John Reeder who later stated that there is a dating problem. According to the story, Jane was scalped before she was born, an obvious discrepancy.
MRS. BONNEY'S AWFUL FATE.
Particulars of the bad Accident Which Resulted in Her Death.
A Wamic, Wasco county, correspondent sends the following particulars of the death by fire of Mrs. Jane Bonney, of Hubbard, Marion county, who was at the time visiting her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Broyles, which was briefly mentioned in the telegraphic dispatches: Mrs. Broyles, having lit her mother's pipe, went to the corral, a short distance away, to milk, leaving the old lady alone, sitting in her chair, smoking. She had been absent perhaps some fifteen minutes, when she was startled by hearing her mother cry "Oh! I'm all on fire!" She ran to her mother's aid as fast as she could, screaming for help, which soon came, but not until the poor woman was fatally burned, her clothing being nearly consumed. She lived in great suffering for 12 hours, when death came as a welcome relief. It never will be positively known how she caught fire, but the supposition is she turned the contents of her pipe into her lap, which set fire to her clothes, which were of cotton material, easily ignited.
Mrs. Bonney was one of the early pioneers of Oregon, crossing the plains in 1845, with her husband and several small children. Many are the startling adventures she could relate of hair breadth escapes from warlike Indians, which harassed them along their route to their new home in the far West. Their provisions falling, they spent the winter of 1845-6 in California where the few white people had to remain in forts to protect them from hostile Indians, starvation stared them in the face many times during that long winter. In the spring they started by trail with a pack train to Oregon, there being no road at that time.
Mrs. Bonney was born in New York in 1808. At 3 years of age her parents and relatives were all massacred by Indians and herself scalped and left for dead, where she was found and cared for by stranger hands.
She was married in 1838. Her husband died in 1856. She leaves eight children to mourn her loss. Mr. Truman L. Bonney, Mr. William E. Bonney, Mr. B. F. Bonney, of Clackamas county, Mrs. Amanda Reasoner, of Clackamas county, Mrs. Martha Rhodes, of Tualatin, Washington county, Mrs. Flora Hutchinson, of Marion county, and Mrs. Samuel Broyles, of Wamic, Wasco county.
Oregonian, Sunday, Aug. 24, 1890, page 4, col. 3-4
One report states:
Jane's orginal family name is unknown. She was the lone survivor of an attack near Buffalo, NY appx 1801, and partially scalped. The Elkins raised her, and she married Jarius Bonney before coming to Oregon via Ohio and ILL leaving from MO.
Above notes given to me by FAG member John Reeder who later stated that there is a dating problem. According to the story, Jane was scalped before she was born, an obvious discrepancy.
MRS. BONNEY'S AWFUL FATE.
Particulars of the bad Accident Which Resulted in Her Death.
A Wamic, Wasco county, correspondent sends the following particulars of the death by fire of Mrs. Jane Bonney, of Hubbard, Marion county, who was at the time visiting her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Broyles, which was briefly mentioned in the telegraphic dispatches: Mrs. Broyles, having lit her mother's pipe, went to the corral, a short distance away, to milk, leaving the old lady alone, sitting in her chair, smoking. She had been absent perhaps some fifteen minutes, when she was startled by hearing her mother cry "Oh! I'm all on fire!" She ran to her mother's aid as fast as she could, screaming for help, which soon came, but not until the poor woman was fatally burned, her clothing being nearly consumed. She lived in great suffering for 12 hours, when death came as a welcome relief. It never will be positively known how she caught fire, but the supposition is she turned the contents of her pipe into her lap, which set fire to her clothes, which were of cotton material, easily ignited.
Mrs. Bonney was one of the early pioneers of Oregon, crossing the plains in 1845, with her husband and several small children. Many are the startling adventures she could relate of hair breadth escapes from warlike Indians, which harassed them along their route to their new home in the far West. Their provisions falling, they spent the winter of 1845-6 in California where the few white people had to remain in forts to protect them from hostile Indians, starvation stared them in the face many times during that long winter. In the spring they started by trail with a pack train to Oregon, there being no road at that time.
Mrs. Bonney was born in New York in 1808. At 3 years of age her parents and relatives were all massacred by Indians and herself scalped and left for dead, where she was found and cared for by stranger hands.
She was married in 1838. Her husband died in 1856. She leaves eight children to mourn her loss. Mr. Truman L. Bonney, Mr. William E. Bonney, Mr. B. F. Bonney, of Clackamas county, Mrs. Amanda Reasoner, of Clackamas county, Mrs. Martha Rhodes, of Tualatin, Washington county, Mrs. Flora Hutchinson, of Marion county, and Mrs. Samuel Broyles, of Wamic, Wasco county.
Oregonian, Sunday, Aug. 24, 1890, page 4, col. 3-4
Jane Elkins Bonney married Jarius Abijah Bonney before the overland trip to Oregon. Her history included a partial scalping.
One report states:
Jane's orginal family name is unknown. She was the lone survivor of an attack near Buffalo, NY appx 1801, and partially scalped. The Elkins raised her, and she married Jarius Bonney before coming to Oregon via Ohio and ILL leaving from MO.
Above notes given to me by FAG member John Reeder who later stated that there is a dating problem. According to the story, Jane was scalped before she was born, an obvious discrepancy.
MRS. BONNEY'S AWFUL FATE.
Particulars of the bad Accident Which Resulted in Her Death.
A Wamic, Wasco county, correspondent sends the following particulars of the death by fire of Mrs. Jane Bonney, of Hubbard, Marion county, who was at the time visiting her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Broyles, which was briefly mentioned in the telegraphic dispatches: Mrs. Broyles, having lit her mother's pipe, went to the corral, a short distance away, to milk, leaving the old lady alone, sitting in her chair, smoking. She had been absent perhaps some fifteen minutes, when she was startled by hearing her mother cry "Oh! I'm all on fire!" She ran to her mother's aid as fast as she could, screaming for help, which soon came, but not until the poor woman was fatally burned, her clothing being nearly consumed. She lived in great suffering for 12 hours, when death came as a welcome relief. It never will be positively known how she caught fire, but the supposition is she turned the contents of her pipe into her lap, which set fire to her clothes, which were of cotton material, easily ignited.
Mrs. Bonney was one of the early pioneers of Oregon, crossing the plains in 1845, with her husband and several small children. Many are the startling adventures she could relate of hair breadth escapes from warlike Indians, which harassed them along their route to their new home in the far West. Their provisions falling, they spent the winter of 1845-6 in California where the few white people had to remain in forts to protect them from hostile Indians, starvation stared them in the face many times during that long winter. In the spring they started by trail with a pack train to Oregon, there being no road at that time.
Mrs. Bonney was born in New York in 1808. At 3 years of age her parents and relatives were all massacred by Indians and herself scalped and left for dead, where she was found and cared for by stranger hands.
She was married in 1838. Her husband died in 1856. She leaves eight children to mourn her loss. Mr. Truman L. Bonney, Mr. William E. Bonney, Mr. B. F. Bonney, of Clackamas county, Mrs. Amanda Reasoner, of Clackamas county, Mrs. Martha Rhodes, of Tualatin, Washington county, Mrs. Flora Hutchinson, of Marion county, and Mrs. Samuel Broyles, of Wamic, Wasco county.
Oregonian, Sunday, Aug. 24, 1890, page 4, col. 3-4
One report states:
Jane's orginal family name is unknown. She was the lone survivor of an attack near Buffalo, NY appx 1801, and partially scalped. The Elkins raised her, and she married Jarius Bonney before coming to Oregon via Ohio and ILL leaving from MO.
Above notes given to me by FAG member John Reeder who later stated that there is a dating problem. According to the story, Jane was scalped before she was born, an obvious discrepancy.
MRS. BONNEY'S AWFUL FATE.
Particulars of the bad Accident Which Resulted in Her Death.
A Wamic, Wasco county, correspondent sends the following particulars of the death by fire of Mrs. Jane Bonney, of Hubbard, Marion county, who was at the time visiting her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Broyles, which was briefly mentioned in the telegraphic dispatches: Mrs. Broyles, having lit her mother's pipe, went to the corral, a short distance away, to milk, leaving the old lady alone, sitting in her chair, smoking. She had been absent perhaps some fifteen minutes, when she was startled by hearing her mother cry "Oh! I'm all on fire!" She ran to her mother's aid as fast as she could, screaming for help, which soon came, but not until the poor woman was fatally burned, her clothing being nearly consumed. She lived in great suffering for 12 hours, when death came as a welcome relief. It never will be positively known how she caught fire, but the supposition is she turned the contents of her pipe into her lap, which set fire to her clothes, which were of cotton material, easily ignited.
Mrs. Bonney was one of the early pioneers of Oregon, crossing the plains in 1845, with her husband and several small children. Many are the startling adventures she could relate of hair breadth escapes from warlike Indians, which harassed them along their route to their new home in the far West. Their provisions falling, they spent the winter of 1845-6 in California where the few white people had to remain in forts to protect them from hostile Indians, starvation stared them in the face many times during that long winter. In the spring they started by trail with a pack train to Oregon, there being no road at that time.
Mrs. Bonney was born in New York in 1808. At 3 years of age her parents and relatives were all massacred by Indians and herself scalped and left for dead, where she was found and cared for by stranger hands.
She was married in 1838. Her husband died in 1856. She leaves eight children to mourn her loss. Mr. Truman L. Bonney, Mr. William E. Bonney, Mr. B. F. Bonney, of Clackamas county, Mrs. Amanda Reasoner, of Clackamas county, Mrs. Martha Rhodes, of Tualatin, Washington county, Mrs. Flora Hutchinson, of Marion county, and Mrs. Samuel Broyles, of Wamic, Wasco county.
Oregonian, Sunday, Aug. 24, 1890, page 4, col. 3-4
Gravesite Details
I have not as yet been able to find when or where Jane's daughter Emily Bonney Broyles died or was buried.
Family Members
Children
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Harriet Newell Bonney Harris
1833–1905
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Truman Lawrence Bonney
1835–1915
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Martha Jane Bonney Rhodes
1837–1928
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Elder Benjamin Franklin Bonney
1838–1926
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Emily E. Bonney Broyles Patison
1842–1923
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Ellen Francisco Bonney Bidwell
1846–1915
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Amanda Arilla Bonney Reasoner
1848–1929
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William Edward Bonney
1850–1929
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Flora Miranda Bonney Hutchinson
1856–1918
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