Turner County, SD Biographies.....Bones, John T. August 8, 1853 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

JOHN T. BONES, residing in section 23, Brothersfield township, has long been
prominent among the substantial and influential farmers and land owners of Turner
county. He was born August 8, 1853, near the Mohawk river in the state of New York,
of Irish-English parentage.

His father, William Bones, is a native of Ireland. Having married in England, he
came to America about the year 1846, and engaged in the business of peddler in the
state of New York. In 1865 he removed to Sibley county, Minn., where he is now a
prosperous farmer. The mother of the subject of this review was Elizabeth Aldersee,
a native of England. After her marriage she came to America with her husband and
died in 1859, when our subject was but six years of age. Of this marriage there were
three children, all sons, named as follows: William H., John T., and George E.

After the death of Elizabeth (Aldersee) Bones, William Bones married Martha Holland,
a native of England. She died in 1889. Of this marriage were born one son, James H.,
and one daughter, Mary, now the wife of Benjamin Young, of Ottertail county, Minn.

John T. Bones is the second child of his father’s first marriage. At the age of two
years, with his father’s family he was removed from his native state to Dodge
county, Wis., where eleven years of his life were spent, after which the family
again removed west to Sibley county, Minn., where he remained until his twenty-third
year. Then, in 1876, he located in Yankton county, Dak. Ter., and engaged in the
business of teaming to the Black Hills. In 1878 he removed to Turner county and took
up 160 acres of land and located upon it, and still owns the tract. From this farm
he removed to his present home on a farm located by his wife before their marriage.
In addition I to the tracts above mentioned, our subject owns 160 acres in Home
township and 240 in Brothersfield township, making in the aggregate 720 acres owned
by himself and wife.

On November 26, 1879, Mr. Bones was married to Miss Mary Wagner, a native of
Minnesota, and daughter of Simon Wagner of Sibley county, Minn.

Of this marriage five children were born, in the order following: Harry, Victoria,
Walter, Frederick’ Isabel. These children were all born in Turner county, and are
all at home with their parents at date of this sketch.

Mr. Bones has always been a stanch Republican in politics, and has taken an active
interest in local political affairs. For many ' years he has held the office of
clerk of the school district, and is closely connected with the educational
interests of his locality, and is regarded as a man to be entrusted with matters so
important and so difficult as those in relation to the public schools.
Mr. Bones holds membership in good standing in the following lodges: A. F. & A. M.,
Parker lodge No. 36; M. W. A., and A. O. U. W., No. 2, Parker. He enjoys to a high
degree the esteem and confidence of his neighbors and fellow citizens, and is
deserving of a prominent place in the history of Turner county.


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