Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Obit of Oliver Young Bonner (10 Nov 1861 - 19 Jan 1929; son of John Laird Bonner
    and Sarah Elizabeth Bonner)

Fairfield Recorder - Feb 14, 1929

"Boys, I Am Going Home"
     "... at 6:30 PM Saturday, January 19th, 1929, Oliver Young Bonner, son of
     John L. Bonner and Sarah Elizabeth Bonner, went home.
     ...He and his faithful wife, Sallie Hope Robinson, whom he married
     December 20th, 1883, who was both his help-meet and companion,
...
     ...In such a home the devoted parents reared a loving and dutiful family,
     eight sons and one daughter, all living but one daughter who died in
     infancy;  Jim Billie, Bettie, Paul, Tom, John L., Joel, Hunter, Oliver and
     Sneed, these with the wife, one brother, T. H. Bonner, and two half
     brothers, Wirt and Millen, survive and sorrow, but not as those who have
     no hope.  He lived to see all these noble sons settle in life, and fortune
     has so smiled upon the children the father was as far removed from anxious
     care concerning them as his beautiful, peaceful, God-loving home was
     removed from the noise and turmoil of the busy city.
   He did not leave to his children that doubtful blessing, a large fortune,
   but left the price heritage which money cannot buy, a name without stain, a
   reputation without blemish.
    ..  Born November 10th, 1861, for sixty-eight years his home was at the
    Bonner Settlement in Freestone County, Texas.  There he attended school,
    spent the days of his boyhood and manhood, and in his youth was baptised,
    and received into the church by Rev. W. H. Millen,
and thereafter, he had almost completed three-score years and ten, he rests
from his labors.  The sorrowing multitude who attended his funeral and burial
in the Bonner Cemetery testified as no language can to the character of the
man..."