Name |
Samuel Bonham |
Birth |
08 Feb 1832 |
Frederick Co, Virginia |
Gender |
Male |
Residence |
1859 |
Sherman, Grayson Co, Texas |
Military |
Civil War, Baylor's Regiment, Texas |
confederate |
Death |
29 Jan 1928 |
Sherman, Grayson Co, Texas |
- Bonham, Samuel - Obituary in Confederate Veteran
Obituary of Samuel Bonham (1832-1922) who was born in Clarke County, Served as County surveyor and moved West in 1854. Once an Indian prisoner, later a CSA soldier in Baylor?s Regiment out of Texas. Died in Grayson Co, TX. Vol 29, 1922
|
Notes |
- According to his obituary in the Confederate Veteran magazine, vol. XXX (1922), p. 310, my great-great grandfather, Samuel Bonham (1832-1922), left Virginia at age 22 for Missouri, then Kansas, where he engaged in surveying and was captured by Pawnee Indians while surveying for the state of Kansas. After surveying for 3 years in Nebraska, he settled in Sherman, Texas in 1859. Apparently he was accompanied to Sherman by his brother, John Bonham, who died in 1860. Samuel Bonham's father, Daniel S. Bonham (1806-1869) was the County Surveyor of Clarke County, Virginia, surveying the line with Frederick County when Clarke County was created in 1838. Samuel Bonham was the County Surveyor of Grayson County, Texas.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/bonham/messages/1159.html
|
Person ID |
I18586 |
Roots |
Last Modified |
15 Apr 2012 |