HANCOCK COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: BONHAM, Robert (1903)
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This obit, from the family Bible is dated in pencil "Approximately three weeks
after July 31, 1903:

NOBLE LIFE NOW ENDED

Robert Bonham Passes Away Suddenly at Home on Defiance Ave.  LIFE LONG RESIDNT
OF HANCOCK COUNTY.  Widow and six children left to mourn loss of husband and
father.

     Robert Bonham of Defiance Avenue, Findlay, died this morning at 12:30
o'clock.  He leaves a widow and six children to mourn his loss.  The children
are William Henry Bonham of North Main Street, and Edward Walton Bonham living
on the old home-stead in !
Portage township, and four daughters, Elta, one of the most popular teachers in
the city; Violet, Mary and Keturah, all living at home.
     Mr. Bonham was born July 27, 1834, and was married to Sarah Jane Moorhead
May 14, 1863.  He enlisted in the Twenty-first Regiment in 1861 and served
three years in the Civil War.  He was, at the time of his death, a member of
Stoker post, G.A.R.of this!
 city.
     Mr. Bonham moved to town last fall from his farm in Portage Township,
where he had lived for years, one of the most honored citizens of the county. 
He was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of this city and was ordained
elder the last Sunday h!
e attended church.  Mr. Bonham leaves a wide circle of acquaintances and
friends who have known him for years sto be one of the most genial, good
natured and strictly honest men of the county.  He always had a good word for
everybody.  While he was in the S!
outhland fighting for the maintenance of the Union he obsesrved the same rules
of integrity and morality that have characterized his conduct ever since.
     The cause of his death was muscular rheumatism aggravated by a numnber of
complications.
     The funeral will probably be held at__o'clock Saturday.

Submitted by Peggy O'Leary, Orange, TX





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