Robert Bonham

Notes:

Anonymous, Minutes of the Methodist Conferences, annually held in America: from 1773 to 1813, Methodist Episcopal Church, Daniel Hitt and Thomas Ware, pub., New York, NY, 1813: pgs. 91-2. (Reprinted by Magnolia Press, Swainsboro, GA, 1983.) (cited op. cit. (H. E. Bonham): pg. 131.)
"ROBERT BONHAM - a son of Hezekiah Bonham, who was early a member of the first Methodist Society in the western part of Maryland, at Pipe Creek, and a local preacher; the probability is that Robert was a native of Virginia, as his father removed from Maryland to Virginia, and lived in Frederick County, in that state. He was a young man of apparant gracious heart and upright walk, lively in his ministry, and active in duty. He began to travel in 1794, and was stationed in Huntington in 1795; in Bath circuit, in Virginia; in 1796, in Hartford and Caroline; in 1797, in Queen-Ann's, a supernumerary; in 1798, in Talbot, a supernumerary; in 1799, in Strasburg, a supernumerary. He was lingering out his life for three years with advancing consumption; but appeared to be a man of great animal life, under his weight of affliction; at the General Conference he was, by his own account, comfortable and had confidence in God. He died in the month of June, at Baltimore and no doubt rests in Abraham's bosom, where affliction and pain are no more."
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Hezekiah and Mary (Bonham) Bonham had:

1. Zachariah Bonham, born 4 Mar 1763; married (1) Sophia Johnson, married (2) Susannah Hoover.
2. Nehemiah Bonham, born 1765; married Rachel Karr.
3. Robert Bonham, probably born ca 1768. A traveling Methodist minister, he died in June of 1800 of "consumption."
4. Unis (Eunice) Bonham*, who m James Finley.

*Historians of the Finley family state that Eunice Bonham was born about 1785 and that her mother was Mary Cordrey. This suggests that her father, Hezekiah, married a second time, presumably after the death of his first wife and cousin. Moreover, if this is true, then it is also possible that this second wife was the mother of Robert Bonham since he is specifically named as Eunice's brother in a court record made in Wythe County in 1803. However, this remains an open question.

http://web.pdx.edu/~davide/gene/Bonham_Hezekiah_5.htm