Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



The Fairfield Recorder
Fairfield, Freestone County, Texas
Thursday, April 18, 1929 - pg 1

OLD SOLDIER RESPONDS TO LAST ROLL CALL

  Irvin H. Bonner, aged 86 years, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. James 
E. Sneed, in Teague, Monday, following a short period of declining health.
Burial was in the Fairfield cemetery Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. J. Walter 
Simpson, pastor of Stewards Mill Presbyterian Church, conducting services.
  Mr. Bonner was born in Alabama, coming to Texas in 1852, with his parents, the
family locating in the Stewards Mill community, where Mr. Bonner lived until he
moved to Fairfield a number of years ago to assume duties as County Tax Collector.
Later he made him [sic, his] home with his daughter in Teague.
  Mr. Bonner is the last of a family of seven children. He is survived [by] his
daughter, Mrs. Sneed of Teague, and Mrs. E. Bonner of Camden, Ala.
  He was an ex-Confederate, a true son of the Old South, and he possessed the
genuine sterling qualities of the old Southerners that distinguished them as
gentlemen and princes of the earth. His exceptional qualities, honest[l]y,
integrity, gentleness and kindness secured for him the love and admiration of
our entire citizenship.