Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries




Freestone Co, Tx - Obit of Martha Bonner (wife of James Isaac Bonner)

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Fairfield Recorder - 19 Apr 1907 issue
   Mrs. J. I. Bonner Dead

   At the home of her son, at Eureka, Mrs. J. I. Bonner died last Saturday night 
after an illness of about seven months.
  Mrs. Bonner was 74 years old last November. She was the widow of Dr. J. I. 
Bonner, and came to Texas from Alabama, locating near Stewards Mill, in 1853, 
and for many years lived in Fairfield.
   She leaves two sons and two daughters - Pierre and Jim Bonner, and Mesdames 
A. D. Anderson and W. B. Robinson.  
   She was buried at Eureka.
   
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Fairfield Recorder - 10 May 1907 issue

             OBITUARY

EUREKA, APRIL 25, 1907
  Mrs. Martha Bonner died April 14th, 1907, at the home of her son, J. A. Bonner,
near Eureka, Navarro county. Mrs. Bonner was born in Wilcox Co., Ala., November
14, 1832. She was married to Dr. J. I. Bonner in the same county on Oct 1, 1851.
With her husband she moved to Freestone Co., Texas in 1852.
  Mrs. Bonner was the mother of six children - four sons and two daughters - four 
of these survive her:  Mrs. Sallie Bell Robinson, Mrs. Willie B. Anderson, J. A.
Bonner and Pierre Bonner.
  Mrs. Bonner died as she lived - a quiet, humble Christian. We sorrow not as 
those who have no hope. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, from henceforth
and their works do follow them."
             W. L. P.

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Fairfield Recorder - 7 Jun 1907 issue

"Tribute to Mrs. Martha Bonner
 
Entered into life.
 
  After seven long months of suffering, rest - God's rest - came to Mrs. Martha 
Bonner. Hers was a life of which truth, service, charity and Christianity were 
the keynote.  Tho' an earnest and consistent member of Presbyterian church, Mrs. 
Bonner did not confine her good deeds to the members of any religious faith.  
Her generous Christian heart full of milk of human kindness, responded promptly 
to every cry of suffering and distress.  If but one rose could be offered by each 
whose life has been brightened by her, a mountain of flowers would rise above the 
newly made grave.
  Mrs. Bonner was a native of Alabama, having been born in Wilcox County, and in 
1851, was married to Dr. J. I. Bonner, of Dallas county.  Two years later they 
moved to Texas and settled in Freestone county. Of two sons and four daughters 
born to the union, the sons, Mr. J. A. [James Andrew] Bonner of Eureka, Mr. W. P. 
[William Pierre] Bonner of Wichita Falls, and two daughters, Mrs. W. B. [William 
Walter Brice] Robinson of Palestine, and Mrs. A. D. [A. Dowan] Anderson of 
Fairfield, now remain.  The father, two sisters, and now the dear mother, have 
finished their day's work, but not their lives.  The soul, freed from the body, 
has returned to the God who gave it - to the land of eternal day, peace and joy...."

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