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Nathaniel Bonnell III

04 Thursday Jun 2020

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Nathaniel Bonnell III was born on June 3, 1756 in Passaic County, New Jersey to Captain Nathaniel Bonnell II and Elizabeth Allen. The younger Nathaniel had seven siblings…Abigail, Caleb, Phebe, Jane, Jonathan, Jacob and Elizabeth. After his mother died in 1774, his father remarried and five more children were added to the family…William (who died in infancy), Nancy, Chloe, William II, and Enoch.

Nathaniel was a young man when the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired and like many of his family, he took up arms on behalf of the Colonies. serving under Captain Abraham Lyons in the Continental Army. After the War, Nathaniel married Martha Crane in 1783. Together they had eight children…Philemon, Huldah, Johnathan C., Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, Sarah and Maline.

The Bonnell family was one of the founding families of New Jersey and were instrumental in the development and growth of the area. Nathaniel was a part of that as owner of the sawmill in New Providence. He lived to the age of fifty-seven, perishing on April 15, 1814. He is buried in New Providence, New Jersey.

Nathaniel Bonnell III was my 1st cousin, 8x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • Family Records or Genealogies of the first settlers of the Passaic Valley, New Jersey, John Littell, 1852.
  • New Jersey Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index
  • New Jersey Wills and Probate Records
  • Find a Grave website
  • Headstone Applications for Military Veterans

Louis Newton Spinning

29 Friday May 2020

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Louis Newton Spinning was born May 29, 1858 in Summit, New Jersey, the oldest of four children born to Charles Spinning and Martha Osborne. His three siblings were Maurice, Bessie and Harry. The family resided in Summit throughout Louis’s childhood with his father supporting the family as a butcher. When Louis became old enough to be employed, he worked as a bank clerk. He continued in this profession for his entire life.

In 1884, Louis married Caroline Wood, a dressmaker who was born in England. She came to the United States as a girl around 1874. Caroline and Louis made their home in the Newark area. They raised three sons–Harford, Kenneth, and Louis–and a daughter Ethel.

In 1922, Louis’s wife was committed to the New Jersey State Hospital at Greystone Park. She would live out the last fifteen years of her life at this institution. Her cause of death was withheld on her death certificate.

Louis continued on with his career in banking, residing with his youngest brother Harry for a time. In 1940, he was living in the household with his grandchildren Anne and John and their divorced mother Marjorie. He would later move in with his son Louis as his years became even more advanced. The elder Louis left this world on Christmas night, 1952 at his son’s home in Clinton, Connecticut. He was laid to rest in New Jersey.

Louis Newton Spinning was my 4th cousin, 5x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census: 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940
  • New Jersey State Census: 1865, 1895, 1905, 1915
  • Find a Grave website
  • Connecticut Death Index
  • New Jersey Death Records

Jonathan Crane Bonnel III

08 Friday May 2020

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Jonathan Crane Bonnel III was born May 8, 1860 in Chatham, New Jersey, the oldest child of Jonathan Jr and Emily Russell Bonnel.  Jonathan was followed by two sisters–Jeannette who never married, and Eloise who died at age six in 1871.

This Bonnel family was instrumental in the development of this area of New Jersey.  Jonathan III’s great-grandfather, also named Jonathan, founded Bonneltown which later was renamed Stanley.  His grandfather, Jonathan C. Sr who went by “Crane”, played an important part in getting the railroad to run a line through what is now Summit, New Jersey.  Jonathan and his father, Johnathan Jr, continued to develop the area economically in the years since.

In 1875, Jonathan’s mother died at the age of forty-three.  His father remarried in 1879 to Sarah English, the daughter of a prominent local doctor.  Unfortunately, that marriage only lasted about a year as Sarah died in 1880.

Jonathan himself married just once.  On June 27, 1892, he married a woman named Carrie in Kings, New York.  Not much is known about Carrie other than she was born in 1856 in Wisconsin, her parents were born in New York and she was likely married once before Jonathan.  There were no children born to this marriage and Carrie disappeared after the 1910 census.  There is some evidence that she might have relocated to Los Angeles.  Jonathan is listed as divorced in the 1915 New Jersey Census.

For several years Jonathan was in poor health.  He was hospitalized when his father died in February 1916.  His sister Jeannette was left control of the family estate and charged with her brother’s care.  Jonathan succumbed to his illness in November 1916.  He is buried in the New Providence Presbyterian Churchyard in New Providence, New Jersey.

 

Jonathan Crane Bonnel III was my 4th cousin 5x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
  • New Jersey State Census, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915
  • New Jersey Death Index
  • New York Extracted Marriage Index
  • Find A Grave website
  • The Chatham Press – December 2, 1916 & February 12, 1916 via Newspapers.com
  • The Central New Jersey Home News  – February 7, 1916 via Newspapers.com
  • New Jersey Marriages
  • US Newspaper Extractions form the Northeast