tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4551923277997505052024-02-18T15:40:25.909-08:00Bunnell-Bonnell Family BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-83064084772302137212023-06-23T12:21:00.000-07:002023-06-23T12:21:18.437-07:00Bonnell-Bunnell Scholarship Funds<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> We all know Claude Bonnell's Database (link listed on this blog, but how many of us knew he was a devoted supporter of his alma mater, the University of Delaware? According to this <a href="https://www1.udel.edu/PR/Messenger/02/3/bunnel.html" target="_blank">2002 article on the University of Delaware's website </a>"He has created scholarships at Harrington High School, American University and at his golf club. His endowment of The Bunnell Family Scholarship for science students at UD is now worth more than $462,000."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My curiosity was raised. How many other Bonnell-Bunnell scholarships have been created by generous donors? I spent a couple hours on the internet and found quite a few.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This list is by no means comprehensive. It only includes the ones I found after a short internet search. <i>If you know of any not listed here, let me know and it will be added.</i></span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Brian Bunnell Scholarship</span></b></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In honor of Bunnell’s dedication to the school, a permanent and ongoing scholarship in his name was formed to be awarded to a student who personifies his love for adventure and learning science. the scholarship will be awarded to one of two seniors at Conifer High School, Winter Park, Colorado. Brian Bunnell was snowboarding on Berthoud Pass on Dec. 26 when he was caught in an avalanche. Despite rescue efforts, he did not survive. Bunnell was a chemistry teacher at Conifer High.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #0e0e0e; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bonnell Family Endowed Scholarship</span></b></p><p style="color: #0e0e0e; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN</span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="color: #262626; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Bonnell Foundation: Living with Cystic Fibrosis Scholarship Program</span></b></p><p style="color: #262626; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A scholarship for students with cystic fibrosis</span></p><p style="color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bunnell Fellowship Program American Foundation for the Fellowship of the Hand</span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The purpose of the Bunnell Traveling Fellowship, in honor of ASSH founder Sterling Bunnell, MD, is to provide scholarship funding for a young hand surgeon to pursue an educational or research goal that requires national and international collaboration, and which fosters the principles of scholarship of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bunnell Scholarship</span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Bunnell Scholarship provides scholarships to students at any campus of the University of Alaska. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="color: #14161c; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Charles Bunnell Mining Scholarship</span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Charles Bunnell Mining Scholarship provides financial assistance to students in the School of Mineral Engineering, UAF College of Engineering and Mines of University of Alaska, Fairbanks</span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Dolores Bunnell Scholarship at Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA</span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This scholarship honors Dolores (Dee) Bunnel by establishing a scholarship for early childhood educators and professionals.</span></p><p style="color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Dr. John Bunnell Scholarship of Music Fund, Community Foundation of New Jersey</span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This scholarship supports Madison High School Graduates Pursuing Higher Education and the Fine Arts</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The Ed Bunnell Scholarship</b> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This Scholarship is an endowed fund that was created to recognize the contributions of Dr. Ed Bunnell, the first Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Special Programs, toward promoting adult learning and continuing education at the University of South Alabama. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Joseph Ruwet Bunnell Scholarship Fund.</b> </span></p><p style="color: #131313; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The annual scholarship is awarded to a deserving Litchfield High School Student Athlete, Litchfield, Connecticut.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Kate Sterling Bunnell Scholarship Endowment Fund</span></b></p></div><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This scholarship offers financial assistance for college expenses to Stratford, Connecticut resident students.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Kiel Bonnell Scholarship Fund</span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A memorial scholarship named for a young man, Kiel Bonnell who died at age 18 in a plane crash. His family decided to use the funds they were saving for Kiel’s college education to create this scholarship for any high school senior or current college student who is a member of or attends Grace United Methodist Church or other area churches in Alamogordo, New Mexico.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="color: #262626; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Kenneth L. and Bonnita L. Bonnell Family Army ROTC Scholarship Honoring the U.S. Army Value of Selfless-Service</span></b></p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Recipients must be an Ohio State University Army Cadet from Union County. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="color: #0f0f0f; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Rick Bonnell Memorial Scholarship. </span></b></p><p style="color: #0f0f0f; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Hornets launched the scholarship last season as part of the team’s efforts to honor the legacy and impact made on the organization, its fans and the city of Charlotte by former Charlotte Observer Hornets beat writer Rick Bonnell.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Robert Allen Bunnell Scholarship</span></b></p><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The scholarship is awarded to an incoming graduate student in Journalism and Public Affairs at American University. </span></p></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Stella Joy Bunnell Endowed Scholarship</span></b></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Stella Joy Bunnell Scholarships support nursing students at Rhode Island College, Zvart Onanian School of Nursing. It was established by Brian Krueger, Stella's grandfather in Stella's memory. </span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Vickie Bunnell Advanced Education Scholarship</span></b></p>
<p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This Scholarship was founded by the Bunnell family and the Kiwanis Club of Colebrook, Vermont in Vickie’s memory to encourage post-secondary education by area residents who have decided to return to school after a break in their education following high school.</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #14161c; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">William L Bonnell Company, Inc. Scholarship</span></b></p></div><div><p style="color: #14161c; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">this scholarship is awarded to seniors in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial and Systems Engineering with an interest in operations at Georgia Institute of Technology.</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-87892570814384105272023-06-14T15:18:00.001-07:002023-06-14T15:18:29.588-07:00Claude A. Bunnell, and His Incredible Legacy<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">This post is inspired by a chapter in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><span style="color: #141414; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><b>Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link</span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">: </span><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">Charlie Bunnell's <a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" target="_blank">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note</a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We all owe a great deal to Claude A. Bunnell, whose database is incredible (linked to this blog). When he died, Charlie published his obituary, taken fr<span style="text-align: justify;">om the Chandler Funeral Home website</span> in the newsletter:</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Claude A. Bunnell, age 89 of Lima PA, formerly of Wilmington DE and Long Boat Key Fl, passed away on Sept 5, 2010 after a long illness. </i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>He is survived by his wife of 61 years Sara Hackett Bunnell and 4 sons, Steven C, David E, Donald H, and Thomas B. Another son, Robert A predeceased him. Surviving also are 4 grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild. </i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Services will be held at the CHANDLER FUNERAL HOME, 2506 Concord Pike, Wilmington DE on Friday Sept 10, 2010 at 11:00am. The family will greet friends at 10:30 am prior to the service. </i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>In lieu of flowers, donations to ACTS Hospice, 812 N. Bethlehem Pike, Ambler, PA 19002 would be appreciated. </i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In its <a href="https://www1.udel.edu/PR/Messenger/02/3/bunnel.html" target="_blank">2002 Report of Private Support,</a> the University of Delaware honored Claude A. Bunnell for his financial support. He had attended UD thanks to a "loan" fund established by Pierre S. and Alice du Pont. Recipients were not required to make direct repayment, but to give back to the University when they were able to do so.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Claude repaid with gifts of more than $378,000 to UD, including $100,000 for the expansion of Colburn Laboratory. He also created scholarships at Harrington High School, American University and at his golf club.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What a legacy he left behind!!</span></p><p style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-82497155674116844472023-06-09T08:45:00.003-07:002023-06-09T08:45:44.340-07:0051st Bonnell Reunion in Alton, Illinois July 15<p> <b style="color: #151719; font-size: 24px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Attention Any Bonnells Who Live in the Midwest (or want to go there for fun and family).</span></i></b></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151719; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">51st Bonnell Reunion </span></b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151719; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2023 </span></b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151719; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">11 AM – 5 PM EDT</span></b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #151719; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gordon Moore Park, Alton, Illinois</span></b></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #151719; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bring a side dish to share. Also any meat to throw on the grill. Lunch will be at noon so if you want food to be grilled you must arrive before then. Bring paper plates, napkins and utensils for your family. </span></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #151719; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And if someone wants to send me a report and photos, we'll post them on the blog.</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-39149210675814754682023-06-04T09:49:00.000-07:002023-06-04T09:49:08.316-07:00Bunnell Graves Near the Bunnell House, Winona County, Michigan<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); color: #101010; font-family: Times; font-size: large;">This post is based on a chapter in former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link: </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" style="font-family: Times;" target="_blank">Charlie Bunnell's Bonnells & Bunnells of Note.</a></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br />Ann Marie Middleton, Bay City, Michigan, previously sent information on brothers Willard and Lafayette Bunnell. From the archivists, Marianne Mastenbrook and Walt Bennick, at The Winona County Historical Society in Michigan, where the Willard Bunnell House is located, Ann received information on the Bunnell graves that were originally near the Bunnell House there.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“From what we have found out, the graves were moved from the Bunnel House property and put on the land that belonged to the Smith Family in Homer. However, these graves are only marked with "rocks" and the area is not taken care of as a Cemetery. It is very, very hard to get to and a resident of Homer provided a map for us, and if someone goes, she must lead the way. [Marianne Mastenbrook]”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUIn5f1BTrxrilKHDQwa-8tfzZ5Gw7SB0lXTiwBARqNDRt0ggXsg7NDJFRDKkpstosm9hYvXdAiuTx0hVjdkf5GTb44mt6wFSJHtUA8pw7Xx4c5H8lZ-X5_fh2SlSB4BJ1FzZLP29j_74wwSBchj0KdNiKYuORfBQQEdyEwZCGDt-eGT8zzoV0WiTV/s604/Screenshot%202023-05-24%20at%2013.39.15.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="604" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUIn5f1BTrxrilKHDQwa-8tfzZ5Gw7SB0lXTiwBARqNDRt0ggXsg7NDJFRDKkpstosm9hYvXdAiuTx0hVjdkf5GTb44mt6wFSJHtUA8pw7Xx4c5H8lZ-X5_fh2SlSB4BJ1FzZLP29j_74wwSBchj0KdNiKYuORfBQQEdyEwZCGDt-eGT8zzoV0WiTV/s320/Screenshot%202023-05-24%20at%2013.39.15.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Ann Marie - Please find photos and the Bunnell Grave Site attached. The grave site is along the top of a narrow ridge that extends up from the Bunnell House. It is leaf covered and the tomb stones are but pieces of limestone that have been placed at the head and foot of each grave. They are not marked, or at least no markings can be seen. It has been reported that there are nine graves at the site, but I counted only a couple of "markers." The markers are difficult to seen. On the b/w photos I tried contrast to enhance the stones, they are near the center of each photograph. - Walt Bennick, Archivist”</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">[Charlie’s Note: Six photos were provided; 3 color, 3 B&W, none that showed anything like a pile of stones even.]</span></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-27136361289680006082023-06-02T08:54:00.000-07:002023-06-02T08:54:13.077-07:00Bonnell and Bunnell Members of the Grand Army of the Republic Post in Aurora, Illinois<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Whenever I receive a newsletter from a genealogy society I look for Bonnells and Bunnells. The latest issue of The Quarterly Journal of the Illinois State Genealogical Society (Spring 2003 Vol. 55 No. 1) has a wonderful article by David C. Bailey, Sr.; Roger L. Knigge, Pamela Nila, and Eric Pry: <b>A Roster of Aurora Post #20 GAR in Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, Part 1.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>It's an amazing article as every fact is supported by footnoted sources. </i>If you have ancestors in Aurora, get hold of this article.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Three Bonnell-Bunnell men were members. I've linked the sources to associated web pages.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Alanson Dorman Bunnell </span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Born 10 November 1817 in Connecticut. Died 25 June 1897; buried West Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, Illinois (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75642527/alanson-dorman-bunnell" target="_blank">Find A Grave Memorial 75642527</a>)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Corporal, Company F, 2nd Connecticut Infantry, (Connecticut. General Assembly. <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/fl-89262-tn-244642/page/26/mode/1up" target="_blank">Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion</a></i>. Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1889. page 26.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Orville M. Bunnell</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Born 4 August 1823 in Genoa, New York. Died 14 March 1896, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81668815/orville-mortimer-bunnell" target="_blank">Find A Grave Memorial 81668815</a>) (<span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://apps.ilsos.gov//isavital/deathsrch.jsp" target="_blank">Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre-1916</a>)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Quartermaster, Sergeant, Company I, 6th Ohio Calvary. (<i><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/211482/?offset=0#page=354&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=" target="_blank">Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion. 1861-1866,</a></i> Vol 11 (eleven), p. 348<i>)</i></span></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">William L. Bonnell</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Born about 1845, in New York (based on age at enlistment)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Died 4 August 1918 Biloxi, Mississippi (<i>"Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900"</i>, National Archive Catalog ID 2588825–image available on Fold3.com)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Private, Company C, 124th New York Infantry (<i><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081799821&view=1up&seq=7" target="_blank">Register of New York Regiments in the War of the Rebellion</a></i>, Vol. 36, p. 513 "Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Syracuse, to serve one year, and mustered in as private, Co. C, September 4, 1864; mustered out with company, June 3, 1865, near Washington D.C.")</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-42813435657272007422023-05-31T08:47:00.000-07:002023-05-31T08:47:23.656-07:00Willard Bradley Bonnell & The Two Towns of Homer<p style="color: #101010; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This post is based on a chapter in former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link: <a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" target="_blank">Charlie Bunnell's Bonnells & Bunnells of Note.</a></span></p>
<p style="color: #101010; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Charlie wrote, "Ann Marie Middleton provided me with multiple sources for information on Willard Bradley [CB320351], brother of Lafayette Houghton Bunnell. An article about Lafayette was in the Newsletter, Vol. VII, No. 2, 1 April 1993, paged 16 - 20. An article about Willard Bunnell was in Vol. IV, No. 2, 1 Apr 1990, pg 24, but these sources provided a bit more detail.”</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Willard Bunnell was born in Homer, Cortland County, NY in 1814, the son of Dr. Bradley and Charlotte (Houghton) Bunnell. By 1815 his family had moved to Rochester, NY and at the age of 10 he ran away from home, first to Buffalo and then as a cabin boy on one of the steamers that plied the Great Lakes. His father caught up with him and brought him back home, but he left again for the lakes and was taken in and trained by a Captain Fox, a friend of his father. By the time he was 18 he was an excellent ship pilot. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was while he was a steam boat captain that he met his future wife, Matilda Desnoyer whose father was a fur trader. The couple married 20 July 1837 in the house of the Justice of the Peace, Abram Whitney, in Saginaw, Michigan Territory. Matilda’s father signed to allow her to marry though under the age of 18. At the time both Willard and Matilda listed their residences as the Town of Saginaw. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1841 he evidently was still a seaman as an interesting event occurred. As he was helping to unload some goods from the ship into the cellar of a Mr. McDonald’s trading store in Saginaw, he and two other sailors spotted a box of money containing $800 that McDonald had hidden. Later that evening they went back and stole it and brought it on-board, bringing the ship’s mate into the plot. However one of the sailors, an Englishman, felt that Bunnell and the other sailor (Dezalia) had shortchanged him and the mate. Seems that the mate and the Englishman had $130 each out of the total $800. The following winter he told Justice Williams at Detroit. A trial was held for the Englishman, the mate and Dezalia. But Willard had heard about the confession and disappeard. At the time, Willard’s parents, brothers and sisters and wife all lived in the Saginaw vicinity.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One winter night the town heard that Willard was in the neighborhood and a posse set out to capture him. He was hiding in a wood cutter’s shanty and had just kindled a fire to thaw out his moccasins. With the posse appearing Willard took off barefoot, but an icy crust on the snow lacerated his feet and he had to surrender. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He was being held in a hotel (there being no jail) waiting for his feet to heal enough so he could travel to another town that had a jail. The night before his departure one of his brothers, a sister and his wife came to visit him. Evidently a swap was done: the brother and sister supposedly left, leaving only the wife there with Willard. At the end of the evening however, the sheriff found instead the brother and sister were there and Willard was long gone. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He ended up with one of the Indian tribes until summer and then went to La Crosse, Wisconsin where his wife joined him. About this time, Willard gave up the ships and sea to become a fur trader like his father-in-law. At some point he had become familiar with the local Indian tribes and had learned some of the languages. He was asked to help with the relocation of the Winnebagoes in 1848 and while doing that he heard that soon the Dakotas led by Chief Wapasha would be relocated. So he obtained a traders license and was allowed by Wapasha onto their summer camp area at the present site of Winona, MN. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1849 the Chief gave him permission to build a log cabin there about 200 feet from the present Bunnell house. After the present house was built, Willard’s brother Lafayette Bunnell lived in the cabin until 1901.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Apparently Willard was not the right type of person to develop a town site. In 1851, when trying to acquire a claim to the nearby prairie area, another claimant blocked Willard claiming that he was there first. Squatter's rights seemed to prevail and occupation of the place was nine/tenths of the law. The controversy finally led to violence. Bunnell and Johnson each destroyed the other's shanty which was their evidence of a claim on the land. There ended up a fist fight which Willard seemed to have won, but none the less, he gave up on that claim to concentrate on his other site down river. There is a fascinating 8 page (349-356) description of this incident in Lafayette Bunnell’s book, source #3 below.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However Willard then turned his attention to trying to build a town on the Bluffs above Homer in 1853. Once again squatter’s rights came into play and his rival was a Daniel Dougherty. In this fight, Willard’s thumb was bit to the point of mutilation and eventual amputation. Once again Willard lost the fight. Then finally came the issue of selection of a county seat. On January 2, 1854, the elected county board composed of Bunnell, a compatriot named Pike, and John Laird of Winona. The first vote ended in each member picking their own town. On January 30, 1854, Bunnell and Pike voted for Chatfield and that settled it.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the late 1850s Willard had a new house building the town that he had named Homer, after his home town. It is a rural gothic style and is now owned by the Winona County Historical Society. Willard died in 1861 before the house was actually finished. But his wife Matilda and their children lived there until her death in 1867. Willard and Matilda had 8 children: David, John, Louise, Frances, Minnewah, Minnie, Irene, and Willard.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Matilda is as interesting as Willard. Dr. James Cole, a writer said this of her: </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Mrs. Bunnell was the first white woman that came into this part of the Territory of Minnesota to live and the first to make her home … [in] Winona county. … Although remarkably domestic in her habits, and observant of matters connected with her household duties, which make home desirable, she was able to paddle her own canoe and was a sure shot with either the rifle or fowling piece. While in general appearance and manners lady like and modestly feminine, she had remarkable courage and self-possession … The Indians respected and feared her although only a ’woman.’ </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mrs. Bunnell was of French descent. Besides speaking French, she was able to converse fluently with the Chippewas, Winnegaboes and Sioux, and had some knowledge of other dialects.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Willard’s lineage is: William1, Benjamin2, Benjamin3, Gershom4, Job5, John6, Bradley7,Willard8.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Charlie based his article on these sources, most of which are available online:</span></p><p style="color: #141414; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/historysaginawc01millgoog" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">History of Saginaw County Michigan,</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> by James Cooke Mills, Saginaw, MI, Seemann & Peters, 1918, pages 111 - 113.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">2)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofwinonac00hill" target="_blank">History of Winona County</a>, H.H. Hill and Company, Chicago, 188, pages 576 - 579.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">3)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028913353" target="_blank">Winona (We-no-nah) and its Environs on the Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Days</a>, by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, M. D., Winona, MN, Jones and Krosger, 1897, multiple pages throughout the book.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">4)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7946122/" target="_blank">"Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, M.D., Discoverer of the Yosemite,"</a> </span>by Horace A Kelly, M.D.; Annals of Medical History, Vol. III (Summer,1921), Francis R. Packard, M.D. Editor, Paul B. Hoeber, New York, 1921, pages 179 - 193.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">5)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog" target="_blank">Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance</a>, by Warren Upham, Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, 1920: pg. 582</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">6)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2xQUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">"The First Criminal Trial in Saginaw County," </a> </span>Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, Vol. VII, Thorp & Godfrey, Lansing, 1886, pages 258 -260.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">7)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/797984-proceedings-of-the-state-historical-society-of-wisconsin-at-its-annual-meeting-1914">Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin</a> at its Sixty-First Annual Meeting, Published by the Society, 1914</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">8)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Timbertown Log, Saginaw Genealogical Society, Winter 1981 - 82, Volume X, Issue 2, pg. 46.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">9)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160216104528/http://www.winonahistory.org/sesqui/fndation/" target="_blank">Laying the Foundation</a>, an online article on a Winona Historical Society web page that is no longer available but was captured by Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">10)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <a href="http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/saginaw/earlymarriages/fulltranscript.asp?s_marID=10" target="_blank">Willard Bunnell-Matilda DesNoyes Narriage Record</a>,</span> Early Saginaw County Marriages, , Transcribed from: Records for the count of Saginaw, Michigan Territory, 1835 - 1864 - Saginaw County Clerk</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-70236906741082917712023-05-29T20:45:00.000-07:002023-05-29T20:45:24.641-07:00Elizabeth Taliaferro Bunnell Endorses Herbert Tarreytown Cigaettes<div class="separator"><p style="clear: left; float: left; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-kerning: none; text-align: left;">This post is inspired by a chapter in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-kerning: none; text-align: left;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><span style="color: #141414; font-kerning: none; text-align: left;"><b>Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-kerning: none; text-align: left;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link</span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none; text-align: left;">: </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-align: left;">Charlie Bunnell's </span><span style="color: #0000e9; font-kerning: none; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e00fd; font-kerning: none; text-align: left;">.</span></span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPeHo63sNq_2UcJA6Ve-g6_zeptvR47PS3BRe_ep8spFJbfzuha6QZzP5p6XgN-uKtSJQyoQtg7duOcICV5ZaJNNmKprO51Dp9X7_JGEFABZzKs-oKz3DL1Xayz8SoL5cY6833TL_mVkIcKcD7b_mmJZsRbONrByleypdE_mqTfB3EK4pQh9hXBzZc/s920/Screenshot%202023-05-23%20at%2012.51.45.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="386" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPeHo63sNq_2UcJA6Ve-g6_zeptvR47PS3BRe_ep8spFJbfzuha6QZzP5p6XgN-uKtSJQyoQtg7duOcICV5ZaJNNmKprO51Dp9X7_JGEFABZzKs-oKz3DL1Xayz8SoL5cY6833TL_mVkIcKcD7b_mmJZsRbONrByleypdE_mqTfB3EK4pQh9hXBzZc/w168-h400/Screenshot%202023-05-23%20at%2012.51.45.png" width="168" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The fine print</span></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> in this old advertisement reads: “Miss Elizabeth Taliaferro Bunnell, lovely young socialite of Richmond, VA., at The Greenbrier. Discriminating in her choice of cigarettes, Miss Bunnell says: ‘I smoke Herbert Tareyton because the cork tip adds so much to fine-tasting tobacco.’”</span></span></span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Elizabeth is 361053, the daughter of Frederick Hartsock and Louise Brander (Taliaferro) Bunnell. Her lineage is: William<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>1</sup></span>, Nathaniel<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>2</sup></span>, Isaac<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>3</sup></span>, Abraham<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>4</sup></span>, Abraham<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>5</sup></span>, John<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>6</sup></span>, Jonathan<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>7</sup></span>, Samuel<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>8</sup></span>, Franklin<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>9</sup></span>, Frederick<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>10</sup></span>, Elizabeth<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>11</sup></span>. <br /></span></p><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Z_afNGtah4EHbNID4gtK5jyc2g1oNqaT64zNW4W8SfEJ3xtZSerKyOKaAYNdYG6AdZgQdkjVRGVH1m5xqjIhSO41__WvW_tx8AUYRk207Bs4Mu8YRtgbIc5Ch79humhXIyLwbc3rZ6nctdllLVEOY6lJdMgmykyCYZFO54Rk0vktc3R9w0_61Jmo/s404/Screenshot%202023-05-23%20at%2012.57.37.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="332" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Z_afNGtah4EHbNID4gtK5jyc2g1oNqaT64zNW4W8SfEJ3xtZSerKyOKaAYNdYG6AdZgQdkjVRGVH1m5xqjIhSO41__WvW_tx8AUYRk207Bs4Mu8YRtgbIc5Ch79humhXIyLwbc3rZ6nctdllLVEOY6lJdMgmykyCYZFO54Rk0vktc3R9w0_61Jmo/w164-h200/Screenshot%202023-05-23%20at%2012.57.37.png" width="164" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Some of us old-timers might remember the Tarreytown ad campaign featuring all kinds of folks with black eyes saying, "I'd rather fight than switch."</span></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-55039994283598885762023-05-24T12:36:00.000-07:002023-05-24T12:36:44.721-07:00William P Bonnell, Mayor of Union Township, Union County, New Jersey.<p> <span style="font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">This post is based on a chapter in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><b>Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">: </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">Charlie Bunnell's </span><span style="color: #0000e9; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: underline;">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e00fd; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">According to Wikipedia's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e00fd; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Township,_Union_County,_New_Jersey" target="_blank">Union Township, Union County, New Jersey</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">Union Township, Union County, New Jersey, is governed under New Jersey's township form of muniipal government. The article lists the mayors of Union, and among them is:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><b>William P. Bonnell, 1896, 17th term.</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">The 1900 US Census records a William P. Bonnell living in this township, living with his wife, Melissa, and daughter, Mabel. He is buried in Roselle Park, Union Count, New Jersey, but neither his obituary or that of his wife mentions a term as mayor.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">Can anyone confirm that this man served a term as mayor? If so, let us know, and we'll revise this post to include more information.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e00fd; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-66233081423644078212023-05-21T10:59:00.001-07:002023-05-21T10:59:27.184-07:00Five Bunnells and Their Strings<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;">This post is a chapter in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;"><b>Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link</span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">: </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Charlie Bunnell's <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" target="_blank">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This chapter is about <b>The Bunnell Strings</b>. You can watch them play <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7pr6i6Tbxk">Healer of My Heart</a> on YouTube.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Charlie wrote: </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Several months ago Anne McDade Barrett of Oceanside, California, sent me a lengthy newspaper clipping from Good News, etc, a San Diego county (California) Christian Newspaper. It was the story of a quintet, The Bunnell Strings. Anne had also done some research and found the names of the parents. I finally contacted them, or at least their “leader,” Keren Bunnell who was happy to provide some family information for the database and newsletter.</i></span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">First, their story:</span></i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The family consists of 4 sisters (Keren, Kimberly, Corrie and Cara) and one brother (Ross). Their parents were James Phillip and Julie Ann Bunnell. James was a Lt. Commander in the Navy and served in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their mother home-schooled them and made sure that they all started violin lessons by age 5. Their father died in 2007 and three years later their mother passed away. James and Julie Bunnell are buried in Fort Rosencrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Keren was the only one of legal age at the time and was able to convince the courts to grant her guardianship of her four siblings. The family live together and play at events together. </span></i></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">From their website: (Editor's note, the site is no longer active.)</span></i></p><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Keren, 25 years old; Kimberly, 23; Corrie, 22; Cara, 20; Ross, 18; bring together a rare ensemble of double bass, cello, viola, and two violins. They have played for several television stations performing as soloists with the Orchestra Nova on KPBS, Salute to Teachers on Cox Channel 4, UT-TV and KUSI News. The siblings have won awards in various competitions, including first place in the VOCE regional and state competitions and the ASTA competition in the chamber ensemble division. They are recipients of many scholarships assisting them in their studies at San Diego State University under the direction of the critically acclaimed Hausmann Quartet.</span></i></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The five of them live together in the family home. Each member of the family has specific duties for their home lives, professional lives and academic lives to run smoothly. The eldest, Keren, handles the bills, plays the viola and is an accounting major. Kimberly is the cellist of the group, the cook and “not too far away from getting two bachelor degrees at San Diego State University in Music Performance and Public Administration.” The next eldest at 22 is Corrie who uses her music composition education to do the musical arrangements for the group, as well as playing violin and acts as the quintet’s leader. Next in line is 20 year old Cara who is one of the violinists and is a college junior. The youngest and only male is Ross who plays the bass, provides some of the humor and is carrying a double major of political science and music. </span></i></p></div><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The genealogy:</span></i></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">When I turned to the database to see if the family was there, I found three James Phillip/Philip Bunnell pages with conflicting information. After sharing them with Keren, we were able to determine that there are likely two James Phillip Bunnells; one born in Maine who married Joan Viemeau and had two children, and Keren’s father who was born in California and married Julie Ann Modzelewski. The third James Phillip was also her father but contained only minimal information. The pages were updated and the five children added to the database. James Phillip Bunnell, father of this musical group, is 380091 in the database. The children are 390107 thru 390111. The quartet’s lineage is: William<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>1</sup></span>, Benjamin<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>2</sup></span>, Benjamin<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>3</sup></span>, Benjamin<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>4</sup></span>, Isaac<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>5</sup></span>, Isaac<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>6</sup></span>, Clark<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>7</sup></span>, Isaac<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>8</sup></span>, Charles<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>9</sup></span>, Edward<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>10</sup></span>, Ellwood<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>11</sup></span>, Gene<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>12</sup></span>, James<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>13</sup></span>, Bunnell Strings<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>14</sup></span>. </span></i></p></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-77938033586216634262023-05-18T19:50:00.000-07:002023-05-18T19:50:56.671-07:00Bonnell's Quickstep (aka Virginia Quickstep)<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;">This post is based on a chapter in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-kerning: none;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><span style="color: #141414; font-kerning: none;"><b>Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-kerning: none;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link</span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">: </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Charlie Bunnell's </span><span style="color: #0000e9; font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e00fd; font-kerning: none;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Steve Bonnell, Montoursville, Pennsylvania, sent Charlie the following snippet from <i>The Fiddler’s Companion</i> website, <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/BONN_BONNY.htm#BONNELL%2527S_MARCH"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/</span></a>: </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px 36px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">BONNELL'S QUICKSTEP. AKA "Bonnell's March," "Virginia Quickstep," "The Dancing Mustang," "Major Crichton's Delight" (Eng.), "Davy Knicknack" (Eng.), "Hoe Cake." American, Quickstep or March. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard. AABB. The tune is international in origin, according to Bayard (1981), in Britain and Europe, but in Pennsylvania it is known as a tune for fife and drum bands. The Pennsylvania versions are named for a renowned fifer from Geene County named "Doc" Bonnell. Bayard found two Flemish versions, and says Dutch authority Florimond van Duyse considered it a fife or flagolet tune dating to the latter 18th or beginning 19th century. Sources for notated versions: Bayard's 'A' version is from the Hoge MS; various other versions ('B' 'H') were collected from southwestern Pa. fifers and fiddlers. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 210, pgs. 165 167. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e00fd; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">[Charlie could find nothing on who this “Doc” Bonnell might be. Neither can the editor of this blog. If anyone has pertinent information, please let us know.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The song can be heard here: <a href="https://musescore.com/julianchambers/virginia-quickstep/piano-tutorial" target="_blank">Virginia Quickstep</a> It's certainly a lively tune.</span></p><h1 class="item-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: #2c2c2c; display: inline-block; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px;"><span class="breaker-breaker" itemprop="name" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sheet music was found in </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/concertinahowtop00devi/page/59/mode/1up" target="_blank">The concertina and how to play it</a> : including 250 patriotic and sacred songs and well known melodies, by Paul De Ville, 1905, on InternetArchive.</span></span></h1><div><span style="color: #2c2c2c;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44);"><br /></span></span><dl class="metadata-definition" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: #2c2c2c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; line-height: 1.428571; margin-left: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: top; width: 58.333332%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4v7TJcSihhaz1zeOcru8asGeIcn6tb3RGBY2HHAYBCDWOhBF8XFSJIO-fgpVSS9ib2uCow5aX_5G9CakecNs84rTGxlKlufuvls65sO5p6tL-btm5uFtNBOcNIBeR3MFE20SPsvtjN6fkXY_k7Hfuzctg84Qv1mpBMcBFYDrHk4Wys3U_X7AIVT5t/s1336/Screenshot%202023-05-12%20at%2011.26.21.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="1336" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4v7TJcSihhaz1zeOcru8asGeIcn6tb3RGBY2HHAYBCDWOhBF8XFSJIO-fgpVSS9ib2uCow5aX_5G9CakecNs84rTGxlKlufuvls65sO5p6tL-btm5uFtNBOcNIBeR3MFE20SPsvtjN6fkXY_k7Hfuzctg84Qv1mpBMcBFYDrHk4Wys3U_X7AIVT5t/w640-h188/Screenshot%202023-05-12%20at%2011.26.21.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></span></dd></dl><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-18970986099714939042023-05-17T13:12:00.000-07:002023-05-17T13:12:38.903-07:00Burrells in an Inscription in the Parish Church of Cuckfield<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">In a recent post we wrote about Bunnell/Bunnell/Burrell etc. archers in the Hundred Year's War. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">That post was inspired by a chapter in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;"><b>Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link</span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">: </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Charlie Bunnell's <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" target="_blank">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">It started with a quote from </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities</i><span style="text-align: justify;">, by William S. Walsh, J.B. Lippincott Company, London, 1898; pages 293- 296: "The boys go round asking for money in the name of St. Crispin, bonfires are lighted, and it passes off very much in the same way as the 5th of November. It appears from an inscription on a monument to one of the ancient family of Bunell, in the<b> parish church of Cuckfield</b>, that a Sir John Bunell attended Henry V to France in the year 1415 with one ship, twenty men-at-arms, and forty archers …"</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">The Webmaster of <a href="http://CuckfieldCompendium.co.uk">CuckfieldCompendium.co.uk</a> wrote Charlie:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="text-align: justify;">"</span></span><span style="text-align: justify;">I have never heard of Bunell in relation to Cuckfield church but it doesn't mean to say that it isn't. However the name Burrell is significantly associated with Cuckfield and according to this link it was Sir John Burrel that attended Henry V. Gerald and Ninian Burrel were both vicars of Cuckfield Holy Trinity Church."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">"</span><span style="text-align: justify;">Please see the top of the left hand column on page 634 (</span><i style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KikAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA634&lpg=PA634&dq=sir+john+burrell+in+cuckfield+church&source=bl&ots=OVrrYHr2z1&sig=0d3bYjHTtPyBkod5ny3T55sEwds&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-Xf2Usa-B7Kw7AafkIHoAQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sir%2520john%2520burrell%2520in%2520cuckfield%2520church&f=false" target="_blank">A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours,</a></i><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KikAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA634&lpg=PA634&dq=sir+john+burrell+in+cuckfield+church&source=bl&ots=OVrrYHr2z1&sig=0d3bYjHTtPyBkod5ny3T55sEwds&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-Xf2Usa-B7Kw7AafkIHoAQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sir%2520john%2520burrell%2520in%2520cuckfield%2520church&f=false" target="_blank"> Volume 4</a> (Google eBook)."</span></span></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The recommended page in the chapter <b>Burrell of Broomepark </b>reads:</span></span></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>In Cuckfield church, in Kent, there are numerous monuments to the memory of the ancestors of Lord Willoughby, and upon the oldest of them is the following inscription:</i></span></span></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>"<b>Gerrard Burrell</b>, D.D. Archdeacon and Residentiary of Chichester, settled at Cuckfield 1446, died April 1509. He was the youngest son of <b>Sir John Burrell</b>, of Devonshire, who attended Henry V, to France 1415, with one ship, 20 men at arms and 40 archers. His grandfather, <b>Ralph Burrell</b>, descended from an ancient family in Northumberland, married Sismonda, daughter and co-heir of Walter Woodland, in Devonshire."</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-12334415064121460712023-05-16T13:59:00.000-07:002023-05-16T13:59:44.920-07:00Bunnell/Bonnell/Burrell Archers in The Hundred Years War<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">This post is inspired by a chapter in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;"><b>Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link</span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">: </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Charlie Bunnell's <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" target="_blank">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">From </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities</i><span style="text-align: justify;">, by William S. Walsh, J.B. Lippincott Company, London, 1898; pages 293- 296: "The boys go round asking for money in the name of St. Crispin, bonfires are lighted, and it passes off very much in the same way as the 5th of November. It appears from an inscription on a monument to one of the ancient family of Bunell, in the parish church of Cuckfield, that a <b>Sir John Bunell </b>attended Henry V to France in the year 1415 with one ship, twenty men-at-arms, and forty archers …"</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Cecil Bunnell, Genoa, New York, 13071-9707, wrote that his daughter Diana found a website <a href="https://www.medievalsoldier.org" target="_blank">The Soldier in Medieval England</a>. The site's home page says, "</span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; text-align: left;">Our </span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; text-align: left;">database contains the names of soldiers serving the English crown between 1369 and 1453. Most were fighting the French. In this second phase of the Hundred Years War major invasions of France were launched, including that of 1415 which culminated in Henry V’s victory at Agincourt 1415. We have also included soldiers serving in other theatres (Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Spain, Calais etc), and in all types of service (expeditions on land and sea, garrisons, escorts, standing forces)."</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;">When Ceci searched for Bunnell, there were no hits, b</span></span><span style="text-align: justify;">ut the following one popped up when he searched Bonnell. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb1sd8vTgYlWlAVFr72F8XIrv7GDBKjdXcGEVv-T55MjzdCOO5De_q-J15cB_Wjo8l4ptCgjFQvcCHOqEO-hFK8FqqOG9SUT6Ux6Bqlw2MSEvHNL2LCOa01YWW8qhoNBFRrSmqVUau221UoinQwubeGsNp_2my4fEjzKyeT56iBV459HenA_mb0wes/s1412/Screenshot%202023-05-09%20at%2011.10.21.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="1412" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb1sd8vTgYlWlAVFr72F8XIrv7GDBKjdXcGEVv-T55MjzdCOO5De_q-J15cB_Wjo8l4ptCgjFQvcCHOqEO-hFK8FqqOG9SUT6Ux6Bqlw2MSEvHNL2LCOa01YWW8qhoNBFRrSmqVUau221UoinQwubeGsNp_2my4fEjzKyeT56iBV459HenA_mb0wes/w640-h109/Screenshot%202023-05-09%20at%2011.10.21.png" width="640" /></a><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Humphrey was the youngest son of Henry IV King of England and brother to Henry V. The expedition to France was part of the Hundred Years War.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I searched the data base, with the following results:</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><b>John Bonnell, </b>origin Northwich Hundred, Hampshire; rank Archer, service Expedition, France; commander <b>Henry V, King of England; </b>service date 1417</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><b>Matthew Bonnell</b>, Archer; service Field Service, against Montfort l'Amaury, Houdan etc. mustered: Sees; commander John FitzAlan (1408-1435) Earl of arundel, Lord Maltravers</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><b>Martin Bunel, </b>Archer; service of Harfleur</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Thomas Bonel, </b>Archer, Garrison of Verneuil; origin, status, Captain blank</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Martin Bonnel</b>, Archer; service Garrison of Alencon; Captain Count of Mortain, Earl of Dorset, Duke of Somerset Edmund Beaufort.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>William Burel</b><b>, </b><span style="background-color: white;">Archer, service Garrison of Tombelaine; captain the Duke of Suffolk (William de la Pole)</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>William Ie Burel, </b><span style="background-color: white;">Archer, service Garrison of Tombelaine; captain the Duke of Suffolk (William de la Pole)</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Martin Burel, A</b><span style="background-color: white;">rcher; captain Sir Thomas Kirkby; service Field Service at the siege of St. Denis, mustered Garges. </span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><b>Jehan Burel, </b>Archer; service Garrison of Domfront (with creu); captain Lord Thomas Scales.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><b>Thomas Burrel</b>, Archer; service Garrison of Mantes (additonal) mustered Vernon; captain Sir Thomas Hoo.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><i>It's interesting that John Bonnell's commander was changed from the Duke of Gloucester to King Henry V. Clearly it's the same archer since the source information is the same.</i></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>The website cites specific sources for each individual's information</b>, which I chose not to record here. Instead I encourage you to explore the fantastic database on your own. Maybe you'll find one of your ancestors was among that Band of Brothers.</span></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-11555230233103331902023-05-12T10:42:00.000-07:002023-05-12T10:42:23.070-07:00More Bonnell -Bunnell Patents<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Charlie Bunnell's article on Earl Bonnell's golf tee patent inspired me to look for other Bonnell-Bunnell patent holders. Fortunately <a href="https://patents.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Patent Search</a> makes this easy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"Bonnell" brought up more than 6,000 results.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I learned many interesting things.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the mattress world there's a thing called the <b>Bonnell Spring. </b><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444;">The end turns on a mattress spring may be knotted or unknotted. Coil springs having knotted end turns are known as </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444;">Bonnell</b><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444;"><b> Springs</b> in the industry. The diameter of the end turns may be identical to the diameter of the central convolutions of the coil spring. <i>I wonder what Bonnell invented them? </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444;"><i>A Clayton C. Bonnell is associated with many patents for devices that improve the U.S. Post Office's mail processing systems. These include </i></span>methods and systems for creating and using a location identification grid and intelligent bar code systems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"Bunnell" brought up almost 6,000 results.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If you think you had an inventive Bonnell or Bunnell (or any other surname) in your family, check out the patents. The Google site lets you download pdf versions of most applications. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And let us know if you identify the inventor of the Bonnell Spring.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-89475087976919229882023-05-09T11:07:00.000-07:002023-05-09T11:07:09.718-07:00Earl Caterson Bunnell and A Better Golf Tee<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Another story from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;"><b>Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link</span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">: </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Charlie Bunnell's <a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>From E-bay, I purchased a copy of the patent application for a “Golf Tee Packet and Golf Tee” invented by Earl C. Bunnell of Stratford, Connecticut. The application was filed 13 April 1926. It is clever and was to replace the little mound of clay or dirt that was being used as a tee at that time. Figure 1 shows the “tee” as it is before being “assembled. Figure 4 shows it in use after slot 19 was inserted into slot 16. Figure 6 shows how they would be sold: A packet of them with each layer containing a new tee.</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2yTBcUeFek8DqpJjsau0h5ToPeAXxeUfXopfx8nIQL7n5FrWD0HplY-Ng2sVSaORavfChsC8KBp4qy8VJ1YEqt6ACWj19cLCGiWHcXt-lRLNHok2HU8jWhbpeuMYXqOJ2HgLNoNujTj0sWBwAnkwFYsJJwqJKydbJ40rejHXSemnjnU8DCM72hgG/s1464/Screenshot%202023-04-19%20at%2010.49.46.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="1464" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2yTBcUeFek8DqpJjsau0h5ToPeAXxeUfXopfx8nIQL7n5FrWD0HplY-Ng2sVSaORavfChsC8KBp4qy8VJ1YEqt6ACWj19cLCGiWHcXt-lRLNHok2HU8jWhbpeuMYXqOJ2HgLNoNujTj0sWBwAnkwFYsJJwqJKydbJ40rejHXSemnjnU8DCM72hgG/w640-h173/Screenshot%202023-04-19%20at%2010.49.46.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>This inventor appears to be Earl Caterson Bunnell, 350151 in Claude Bonnell's database. He was a draftsman and mechanical engineer. His lineage is William(1), Benjamin(2), Benjamin(3), Gershom(4), Joseph(5), James(6), Ephriam(7), William(8), Earl(9), Earl(10).</i></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Earl, however, was/is not the only Bonnell/Bunnell inventor. John C. Bonnell submitted a patent in 1880 for a “Blank Book.” J. R. Bonnell in 1898 invented a water gun. James Bonnell in 1945 applied for a patent on the first Donald Duck and there were numerous other Bonnell/Bunnells whose patent applications can be found for sale on e-bay.</i></span></p><div><br /></div></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-35959245828184762642023-05-03T07:54:00.000-07:002023-05-03T07:54:49.233-07:00Bonnie Bonnell's Filmography (Marion Wright Bonnell)<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Marion Wright Bonnell's life story was featured in a previous post. A second post covered one of those Hollywood happenings that made the papers all across the U.S. This post focuses on her career, since The Three Stooges films are still shown on television.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Under the stage name of Bonnie Bonnell she danced in vaudeville and acted in films. Often she worked with comedian Ted Healy and the Three Stooges. She has her own page on IMDB: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094862/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1" target="_blank">Bonnie Bonnell on IMDB</a> Maybe one of our readers will update her profile there using information from this blog. It should at least show her real name.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Everything anyone could ever want to know about the Three Stooges can be found at <a href="http://ThreeStooges.Net" target="_blank">ThreeStooges.Net</a> There is a whole page on Bonnie, with picture and complete filmography. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bonnie herself can be seen in the readily available film Leonard Maltin narrated, <i>The Lost Stooges, </i>a retrospective of the "Ted Healy & His Stooges" films produced by MGM. <b>Beer and Pretzels</b> (1933) is featured in its entirity. It includes footage from some of her other films: <b>Nertsery Rhymes </b>(1933)<b>,</b> <b>Plane Nuts </b>(1933) and<b> </b><b>The Big Idea </b>(1934).</span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-46598587554736784252023-04-26T08:20:00.000-07:002023-04-26T08:20:05.600-07:00Marion Wright Bonnell (stage name Bonnie Bonnell), Ted Healy and the Christmas Day Fire<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We genealogists and family historians really like stories. The last blog post reported T<span style="text-align: justify;">ed Healy’s clipping files at New York Public Library’s Theatre Collection. included an article, from the New York Daily News, dated December 26, 1935.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">The headline reads: “Ted Healy in Firebug Role Lands in Jail.”</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> and the article mentions Marion Bonnell.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">A search of several digitized newspaper databases shows this story made the papers all over the U.S. People then, as now, loved to read about the crazy antics of folks in Hollywood.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The following transcribed newspaper articles flesh out the story. It's an interesting one in light of Marion Bonnell's alcoholism.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9aSzcEwHe_OcDmPE5LGU9trFWihkzKaWXitEEW1QIGP-0D2utGUYo_iiso-C4Gy3-CLJcPnbBtaV44I_C1Lg2ByDzZFGgCI4GZEOWiHtrzVQMPYeNv1zF-sWjZvgfKn5w2vY-775S0kB07AEkM_tY63aInen6gRn-oCTbztK4DuRwATGzlVt9hKs/s766/Screenshot%202023-03-30%20at%2010.15.09.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="566" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9aSzcEwHe_OcDmPE5LGU9trFWihkzKaWXitEEW1QIGP-0D2utGUYo_iiso-C4Gy3-CLJcPnbBtaV44I_C1Lg2ByDzZFGgCI4GZEOWiHtrzVQMPYeNv1zF-sWjZvgfKn5w2vY-775S0kB07AEkM_tY63aInen6gRn-oCTbztK4DuRwATGzlVt9hKs/w295-h400/Screenshot%202023-03-30%20at%2010.15.09.png" width="295" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/zz002hnnnt/" target="_blank">Ted Healy and "Bonnie" Bonnell stand outside her home at 141 Mayberry Road, Santa Monica, 1935</a><br /></span></p><div></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-indent: -40px;">We gratefully thank the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA for allowing us to use this image. <a href="https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz002hnnnt">https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz002hnnnt</a></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-indent: -40px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Los Angeles Evening Post-Record, Thursday 26 December 1936 page 2 Col B (</b><a href="http://newspapers.com"><b>newspapers.com</b></a><b>)</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">TED HEALY, ‘SUFFERING FROM HEADACHE’, TO FACE ARSON CHARGE</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bald-headed Ted Healy, who makes his living being funny in front of a camera, could ‘remember doing something someone didn’t want him to do” today, but a police repot was filled out with details of a very strange “fire” story assertedly involving the comedian.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“This beef is liable to cost me a $60,000 contract, but right now I’m too sick to care about anything,” remarked the depressed comedian yesterday as he was released from his jail cell under $1000 bond pending a hearing tomorrow on a charge of suspicion if arsib,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The police report asserts that the actor called yesterday on Marion W. “Bonnie” Bonnell, 141 Mabery Road, Santa Monica canyon, and set fire to a pile of papers and clothing atop her gas stove.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In addition to his headache and all the trouble, Healy had a bandaged hand. Miss Bonnell said he cut himself when he poked his fist through a glass door when told by his hostess that he was not welcome.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>However, Healy maintained that Miss Bonnell shot him through the hand to discourage Christmas spirit.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The “house warming,” Miss Bonnell told police, was carried on by Healy, who just piled expensive clothes, furniture and boxes on the stove and set fire to them.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Methodically he broke the larger pieces of furniture into kindling sized logs and piled them on the blaze, she told Capt. Paul Woolfe of the fire department.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Healy’s attorney obtained the actor’s release after eight hours in jail. The funny man is scheduled to appear for hearing at 10 o’clock tomorrow.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Los Angeles Evening Citizen News Thursday 26 December 1935 page 15 Col H (</b><a href="http://newspapers.com"><b>newspapers.com</b></a><b>)</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">…According to police, Healy smashed through the glass front door at the home of Marian(sic.) W. “Bonnie” Bonnell, 141 Mabery Rd. Santa Monica Canyon, and set fire to a pile of papers and clothing on the stove.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>At the height of the excitement, someone fired a shot, it was reported to detectives by Miss Bonnell.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Healy was found in a Beverly Hills hotel and booked on suspicion of arson.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In his cell at the Central Station he said he could not recall what had occurred but did remember that he had had a number of drinks.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Healy refused to join the other prisoners in a roast pork dinner and was released on a $1000 bail on a writ of habeas corpus obtained by Attorneys Jerry Giesler and S. Ward Sullivan from Superior Judge Francis J. Heney.…</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California Thursday 26 December 1935 page 1 Col C (</b><a href="http://newspapers.com"><b>newspapers.com</b></a><b>)</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b>Marion W. Bonnell, 26, in whose apartment Healy supposedly held his impromptu Yuletide celebration, insisted the comedian had “forced his way in.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Was I burned up?” she told police. She pointed to a stack of charred table legs and chairs to illustrate her point.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Healy laughed that off.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I’m too old to play with matches,” he said. “She must have got cold during the night. I went to call on Bonnie, and she fired on me.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He showed a bandaged hand as evidence, claiming the bullet went through his palm. Police said the hand was cut by glass and burned.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>According to Miss Bonnell’s story, Healy attended a Christmas Eve party at her apartment. He left with other guests, and later appeared at her door, demanding to be let in.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Miss Bonnell said she was alone, and the party was over, so she refused. Healy, she claimed, crashed his fist through the glass door and walked in.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>She told Captain Paul Wolfe of the fire department that Healy marched into the kitchen, heaped her expensive clothes on a stove and set fire to them.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>She said she ran out and yelled for help. Healy meanwhile collected the living room furniture, reduced the larger pieces to kindling wood, and set fire to the pile, she said.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Firemen arrived but Healy had departed. He was arrested at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. Police said he appeared to be intoxicated.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Los Angeles Times, Friday Morning, 27 December 1935 Part II page 8 Col A (</b><a href="http://newspapers.com"><b>newspapers.com</b></a><b>)</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">ALIBI READY, SAYS HEALY</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Comedian Insists He’s Guiltless</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Witnesses to Aid Defense at Hearing on Suspicion of Arson, He Asserts</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ted Healy, 39-year-old film and vaudeville comedian, yesterday announced thorough his attorney that he is prepared to produce witnesses to his innocence in a quarrel at a woman’s home in Santa Monica Canyon which led to his arrest on suspicions of arson.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>George Johnson, chief of the complaint department, set a hearing for Healy and his witnesses for 10 a.m. tomorrow.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">FREE ON BOND</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Healy has been free on a $1000 bond since 2 p.m. on Christmas Day. He spent eight hours in the City Jail after Marion W. (Bonnie) Bonnell, his onetime comedy partner with his three stooges, had complained to the West Los Angeles police station that the comedian broke into her home at 141 Mayberry Road and started a fire.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">CALL FROM WRITER</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Meanwhile the comedian was pondering the conflicting array of stories purporting to tell of the gay Christmas Eve party that began at his apartment in a Beverly Hills hotel and continued toward Santa Monica.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>West Los Angeles Police Officer Stebbins related that early Christmas morning he received a telephone call from Mordaunt Shairp, an English writer living at 78 Ocean Way. There Healy was said to have come with a companion—seeking additional Christmas cheer.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>After Healy had departed, Shairp notified police of a broken window in his home, assertedly caused by one of the men.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">ARRESTED LATER</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b>Healy was arrested several hours later at his Beverly Hills apartment.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the comedian was little disposed late yesterday to discuss Christmas Eve affray which led to his eight-hour imprisonment in the City Jail Christmas morning.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Earlier Healy had spoken freely of his trip to Miss Bonnell’s canyon cottage where “someone” had shot and wounded him in the left hand, according to his story to police officers. The morning after the episode, the actor could throw no light on the arson charges.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">WOMAN’S MOVE IGNORED</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Capt. Paul Wolfe of the fire department arson squad announced that although Miss Bonnell had declined to prosecute charges, the matter could not be abandoned.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Investigation of the Santa Monica house, he said, showed unmistakable evidence that someone had started a fire of clothing and books. Miss Bonnell accused Healy of that in her <b>call </b>to the West Los Angeles Police Station.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><i></i></b><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Los Angeles Times, Saturday Morning, 28 December 1935 Part II page1 Col B (</b><a href="http://newspapers.com"><b>newspapers.com</b></a><b>)</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">TED HEALY TO APPEAR AT HEARING</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Fire Department Will Ask Complaint on Charges of Starting Fire</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>TedHealy, 39-year-old screen and vaudeville comedian, at libertu under $1000 bond after being booked on suspicion of arson following a fire in the Santa Monica Canyon home of an actress friend, today will appear at 10 a.m. in the District Attorney’s office for a hearing.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Arrested following complaint of Marion W. (Bonnie) Bonnell, his one-time vaudeville partner, that he had entered her home Christmas Eve and ignited a pile of clothing and books, Healy maintained he has witnesses to refute the charges.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Capt. Paul Wolfe of the fire department arson squad said that despite the dropping of prosecution by Miss Bonnell the department will seek a complaint.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Los Angeles Times, Sunday Morning, 29 December 1935 Part II page 2 Col D (</b><a href="http://newspapers.com"><b>newspapers.com</b></a><b>)</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">TED HEALY EXONERATED AS TWO BACK HIS STORY</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Statements of two friends absolving him of blame for an asserted attempt to start a fire in the cottage of an actress friend in Santa Monica Canyon on Christmas Eve, yesterday won exoneration for Ted Healy, 39-year-old comedian, at the District Attorney’s office.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The actor appeared at the office of George Johnson, chief of the District Attorney’s complaint department with his attorneys, Jerry Giesler and Mark Sullivan and with two friends who supported his plea of innocence.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Johnson declined to issue a complaint.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The friends were A.C. Bishop-Jones and W.V. Jamieson, who said they accompanied Healy to the residence of Miss Marion W. Bonnell Christmas Eve at the time he was reported to have attempted to set a fire in the place.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The two men declared that although Healy entered the house he remained there but a moment speaking to Miss Bonnell and made no effort to set any fire.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Miss Bonnell previously told officers that Healy came to her house earlier in the evening and that she fired two shots to frighten him away. Later, she said, he returned with his two friends and attempted to start a fire by lighting a pile of clothing and books in the kitchen.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: -40px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-40059296631811273412023-04-24T12:55:00.000-07:002023-04-24T12:55:14.161-07:00Bonnells and Bunnells in England Before 1850 (a Charles E. Bonnell Project)<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Charles E. Bonnell </span><span style="font-size: medium;">has spent a lifetime helping Bonnell and Bunnell descendants find their ancestors. As editor of the Bonnell-Bunnell Family Newsletter he compiled and shared an incredible amount of information and countless family stories. Yet the amount of research he has done over the years is amazing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In one of those efforts he tried to identify every Bonnell and Bunnell (and surname variations) in England prior to about 1850. He examined 65 different sources, <span style="background-color: white;">including register transcripts, wills, archival records, books and articles and online databases.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">He identified more than 700 individuals and created excel spreadsheets to track them. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The entry for each states the type of event recorded, the date and the source of the information.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: #2c2c2c;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">People were found in England, Wales, Scotland, the Channel Islands, France, Barbados and the Netherlands.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">This work has been published on InternetArchive <a href="https://archive.org/details/complete-book" target="_blank">Bonnells & Bunnells in England Before 1850</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Contents include:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Complete List of Names</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Cheshire by Town</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Cheshire by Date</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Essex</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">London</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Norfolk</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Shropshire</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Sources and Notes</span></span></li></ul><div><br /></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-79946434987243913712023-04-19T10:40:00.000-07:002023-04-19T10:40:57.873-07:00Marion Wright Bonnell (stage name "Bonnie Bonnell") and the Three Stooges<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Here's another fascinating story from </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link: </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Charlie Bunnell's Bonnells & Bunnells of Note </a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><i>Steve Bonnell referred Charles to an article about <b>Bonnie Bonnell</b> who appeared in some of the Three Stooges movies. CharlieI contacted the author, Bill Cappello, who agreed to publication of his article in the newsletter. It also serves as an interesting study in research methods.</i></span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><i>“The Search . . . for Bonnie Bonnell, by Bill Cappello</i></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> By now, I suppose all Three Stooges fans have seen the MGM shorts they made with Ted Healy. Also appearing in these shorts is a young lady referred to in the opening credits as “Bonny.” I became interested in knowing more about “Bonny.” What was her real name? Was she still living? If alive, and willing and able to talk, she would be valuable from an historical point - she would know first hand how Healy really got along with Howard, Fine and Howard; how the routines were developed for the screen; and most importantly, what sequences weree filmed for the various shorts, and then cut from final release. This article is about my search for “Bonny.”</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> My first place to check for any information on “Bonny” was in Ted Healy’s clipping files at New York Public Library’s Theatre Collection. In the multitude of clippings was one article, from the New York Daily News, dated December 26, 1935. The headline reads: “Ted Healy in Firebug Role Lands in Jail.” The article described how Healy, in a mischievous mood, forced his way int the apartment of “former showgirl Marion Bonnell” and set fire, on the kitchen stove, to bundles of her clothing and pieces of furniture. At one point in the article, she was referred to as “<b>Marion W. Bonnell</b>, age 26,” and Healy called her Bonnie.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> Now knowing what apparently was her real name, I checked the clipping files for Marion Bonnell, and found one, with just two newspaper clippings: one was a full -length photo of her, mentioning she was “one of the beauties” in a Broadway musical revue The Ramblers, dated February 21, 1927. The other was a portrait photo, obviously taken many years earlier, accompanying a couple of lines about the Ted Healy firebug episode, dated December 1935. Unfortunately, there were no clues as to her birthplace, or any marriages.</i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> Before continuing library research, I decided to call any living people who may have known her personally, in hopes that they’d be able to give me some leads. I talked to Paul “Mousie” Garner, who worked with her in Bill Rose’s Crazy Quilt, a 1931 Broadway musical revue. Garner said that in that show, Healy’s stooges were Dick Hakins, Jack Wolfe, and himself. He remembered her as being a very good dancer, but knew nothing about what became of her. Next call was to Muriel Evans, who played Healy’s wife in the MGM short The Big Idea. Muriel remembered working very briefly on the set, but did not know Bonnie at all. Final call was to Matt Brooks, who was a co-writer with Healy on the shorts. He knew nothing. So it was back to the library.</i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> In the Personal Name Index to the New York Times, I found one reference to Marion Bonnell. The article referred to was a mention of a marriage to a T.F. McGoey of Long Island, who met her while she was appearing in a show named Tell Me More in 1925. The marriage took place in New York City in May of 1926. I was able to get a copy of the marriage application, which gave me some personal information: her father’s name was John, mother’s maiden name Marion Evans, and she was born in Atlanta, Georgia. The man she married, Thomas E. McGoey, was a salesman. I was able to locate some relatives of his, who told me he was long dead, but that his marriage to Marion Bonnell didn’t last more than a few years, and, of course, they had no idea of what happened to her.</i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> With the information that she was from Atlanta, I was able to locate a few of her relatives there. The most helpful was a first cousin, Lloyd Dixon (his mother and Bonnie’s father were brother and sister). He told me he never met her, but knew of her work on the stage and in movies with Healy. He was under the impression that Healy and Bonnie were married, but I’ve never found any documentation of this. Mr Dixon referred me to his daughter, Mrs. Jean Murray, who was keeper of the family history. Mrs. Murray gave me information from the family records that led me to another of Bonnie’s relatives, a first cousin on her mother’s side. Bonnie was born on August 1, 1905, in Thomasville, Georgia, the only child of John Wright Bonnell and Marion Evans Bonnell. Her full birth name was Marion Wright Bonnell. With the information that her parents were married in Thomasville, the birthplace of her mother, I was able to locate another very helpful relative. Jim Evans whose father and Marion’s mother were brother and sister, told me that Bonnie, whom he called “little Marion,” had died in Santa Monica, California on March 14, 1964, age 58. He told me he believed she was an alcoholic, and that when he visited his Aunt Marion in the 1950s (Bonnie’s mother lived with her since the early 1940s), he was not allowed to see Bonnie because she wasn’t in any condition to have visitors. He did tell me that her married name was Hayes, but he never met her husband.</i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> I applied for and received a copy of Bonnie’s death certificate. Her full hame is listed as Marion Bonnell Hayes; date of birth August 1, 1913, which is erroneous by eight years; married to Jack L. Hayes, an auto parts salesman, her last occupation, housewife, for 28 years. She died at Santa Monica Hospital, and an autopsy was performed to find the cause of death, which is listed a “fatty metamorphosis of the liver,” a condition which is caused by consumption of large amounts of alcohol over a long period of time; a contributing factor to her death was “cerebral edema” which is fluids collecting around the brain, which may be caused by a blow to the head. Bonnie was cremated and her ashes (known as cremains in the funeral business) are interred in their own niche at the Woodlawn Cemetery Mausoleum in Santa Monica.</i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> The final person I talked to was Marc Bentley, the man who owns the house in West Los Angeles where Bonnie and her husband last lived. Mr. Bentley told me that his house had been in his family for many years, and at the time Bonnie lived there, his brother Fred owned it. He said Fred rented out rooms to friends who were not in good financial circumstances. He recalled that Bonnie (he referred to her as Bonnie, a name that stayed with her since her association with Hely) was an alcoholic and things were very bad for her at the end. After her death, her husband Jack moved out of the house and was never seen again.</i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> So that’s the story of whatever happened to Bonnie Bonnell Ted Healy’s first and only lady stooge on screen. Perhaps it was their mutual penchant to drinking that brought them together, but unfortunately, it was also the cause of their individual demise.”</i></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>[Newsletter Editor's Note: Marion Wright Bonnell is in Claude’s database and this article provides considerable data for it. While I was searching for additional information on Bonnie, I found a Bonnie Bonnell who was a frequent guest of Ernest Hemingway during the 1920s. I don’t believe it is the same Bonnie though as this one lived, at least for some time, in Toronto.]</i></span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Online newspaper archives make research easier now then when the above was written. This article was found through GenealogyBank.com:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b>Evening Tribune, San Diego, California, Wednesday 29 July 1936 Section A page 15 Col A</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"Brand New Woman"</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">SAN PEDRO, July 29 (A.P.)—Returned from a honeymoon cruise with her husband of three weeks, Marion ("Bonnie") Bonnell, ex-dancing partner of Comedian Ted Healy, said today: "I'm a brand new woman." She was married to <b>Laurence Hayes</b>, Santa Barbara sportsman, in a Yuma elopement July 12. "All my troubles are forgotten, blond Mrs. Hayes declared, referring with a smile to last Christmas eve when fire engines rushed to her home after a visit by Healy. The actor later explained to authorities that his idea of a joke had backfired. He was cleared of suspicion of arson.</span></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-57313662043471949372023-04-11T15:00:00.000-07:002023-04-11T15:00:27.510-07:00More on the Billy Bonnell Family and Rodeos<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The blog post on Billy Bonnell mentions the rodeo activities of other members of his family. His granddaughter, Pat McKinley was a trick rider, roper and Roman Rider. Her husband Bud McKinley was a calf roper and steer wrestler. The Rodeo Historical Society Oral History Project includes an interview with them and their son Bill McKinley that was filmed at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on 18 August 2005. <a href="https://listenok.library.okstate.edu/data/interviews/pat-mckinley-and-bud-mckinley-08/18/2005" target="_blank">Pat & Bud McKinley Interview</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">An unidentified writer’s posted the following on The Elk County Forum <a href="https://www.cascity.com/howard/forum/index.php?topic=4464.0">https://www.cascity.com/howard/forum/index.php?topic=4464.0</a> : She (momof2boys is the writer’s handle) obviously knew the family. If anyone reading this blog knows her, please thank her for posting this information.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The following is an excerpt from a research paper I wrote in college. The class was American Folklore, and I chose to write about my family's involvement in the rodeo.</span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">When one thinks of rodeo they think of the professional cowboys with their Stetson hats, ornamental belt buckles, and Justin boots, traveling from rodeo to rodeo in their 4 X 4 trucks pulling fancy horse trailers. Rodeo today is a big money business. However, this was not how the early rodeo circuit appeared. </span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the early days of rodeo there weren't large sums of money to be paid to the winners nor fancy means of transportation from one rodeo to the next. Rodeos were impromptu events organized by the cowboys who loved to compete and show off the talents they had learned on the range. </span></i></p>
<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Cowboys would come together to socialize and compete in the games they had made while working on the range. Each event was derived from some aspect of a task that the cowboy engaged in while working on the range. Over the past 100 years rodeo has developed into a major sporting event. It has become a form of entertainment, where simple activities, such as twirling a rope and riding a horse, developed into spectacular performances.</span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>The </i><b><i>Bonnell/Howell/McKinley</i></b><i> family has been witness to the evolution of rodeo. This family had been involved in the many aspects of rodeo such as rodeo events and providing entertainment at rodeos for approximately 80 years.</i></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><i>William (Billy) Bonnell</i></b><i> was involved in rodeo in the early 1900's. He participated in many roping and riding competitions through-out Kansas and Oklahoma. The events he enjoyed were the calf and steer roping. Billy set world records in both of these events. He set a world record in calf roping in August of 1909 in his home town of Cedar Vale, Kansas, with a time of 25 seconds. It was reported that over 2500 people attended this rodeo and none, except the cowboys who participated in the rodeo, realized what they were witnessing until the time keeper made the announcement that Billy Bonnell had busted the record to smithereens. Winning times averaged around 35 - 40 seconds. (Cedar Vale Commercial, Aug. 1909, Vol. 22, N. 8, P. 1)</i></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The rules for calf roping were tougher in 1909 than they are now. The calf got a sixty foot running start with two men on horseback whipping it. After the calf was roped and tied by the cowboy, the judge would turn the calf over to ensure a good tie. When an article was written about Billy in 1940 in Hoof & Horns, a western magazine, his calf roping record had still not been broken under the old rules. </span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Due to the increased popularity of rodeo as entertainment, wild west shows began popping up. Among these shows were the 101 Ranch Wild West Show which Billy toured with for many years. It was during his time with this show he met people such as Will Rogers and Lucille Mulhall. Billy, along with his two brothers, also toured with the Pawnee Bill Wild West Show. In an interview with </i><b><i>Ralph Bonnell</i></b><i>, grandson of Billy, he told of how Billy and his brothers traveled to Europe with the show. During their tour, the show went bust, leaving the boys stranded. The parents had to raise money to bring the boys back home.</i></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Billy Bonnell was selected as one of the five men having the best average in steer roping in 1912 and was chosen to perform his talents in Calgary, Canada. …These trips took a toll on the horses. The horses were never the same after these trips. Their legs were weakened and their full strength and agility never regained. This was very upsetting for the cowboys, because a good roping horse is the major part of getting the good time. Billy's accomplishments in calf and steer roping can be attributed to the skills he acquired while working on the range, however the major factor to his success was his well trained horse. Billy owned many well trained horses, the most famous being Romeo. Romeo is listed in a book of famous horses and was the horse he used when he set the world record in 1909. Lucille Mulhall, Fred Beason, Tom Mix, Ellison Carroll, Buffalo Vernon and many other record holders used this horse. (Hoofs & Horns, May1940, vol. 9, N. 11, pg. 4)</span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As Billy grew older his love the rodeo did not diminish. He was still active in rodeo up till death at the age of seventy-four. He participated in and around Cedar Vale, and at age 64 he placed second in calf roping at the Moline 4th of July rodeo. </span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>He also enjoyed showing and teaching you boys how to ride and rope. One of Billy's students was his youngest daughter, </i><b><i>Lillian Lucille Bonnell Howell</i></b><i>. Lillian was named for one of Billy's friends, Lucille Mulhall. </i></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">From a very young age, Lillian went to rodeos with her father, and sometimes competed in calf roping events against boys and men. It was while attending these rodeos, that she was people entertaining the crowd with special acts, such as trick roping, trick riding, and Roman riding. This sparked an interest in being a rodeo entertainer. </span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Her father, Billy, taught her how to trick rope and this began her career as a rodeo entertainer. She would perform her talents in trick roping at various area rodeos. Meanwhile she was teaching herself how to trick ride. She could not afford to buy a special trick riding saddle, so she made one herself. </i><b><i>Pat McKinley</i></b><i>, Lillian's daughter, stated that when Lillian was a married woman she and her husband decided to buy her a horse she could train to trick ride. This horse was a bit shorter than average horses, which was exactly what Lillian needed since she was 4 feet 11 3/4 inches tall. </i></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Lillian was a natural at trick riding. However at one performance she had an accident which knocked her unconscious. This event convinced her to go to Stroud, Oklahoma, where a few more experienced trick riders taught her some tricks of the trade. Although Lillian was under 5 feet tall, she could do a lot of tricks on a horse that most women could not. She was stout enough to do such tricks as leaping off and on a running horse and doing a headstand on the shoulder of a horse. </span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Lillian's performances grew in popularity and she decided to expand the act. Lillian's husband, </i><b><i>Harold Howell</i></b><i>, joined the act. Harold had also been involved in rodeo as a calf roper and bull rider. He also performed at various rodeos as a rodeo clown. Their acts included double trick riding, with Harold dressed as a clown, as well as trick roping and various acts. Harold and Lillian passed on their talents to their children </i><b><i>Pat Howell McKinley</i></b><i> and </i><b><i>Lee Howell</i></b><i>. Both children performed with their parents at early ages, doing such things as trick roping and trick riding.</i></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Lillian's love for performing passed on to her daughter Pat. When Pat was a teenager she had perfected her trick riding and decided to try another facet of performing . . . Roman riding. Roman riding involved standing on the backs of two horses and doing various tricks. The family act turned into a mother/daughter act. Lillian and Pat performed various rodeos in Kansas and nearby states, doing twenty or more shows a season. Lillian's age soon became a factor and she had to retire. However, Pat remained performing and became well-known. She performed in such places as the Dominican Republic.</span></i></p>
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<p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Pat performed her trick roping, trick riding, and Roman riding for many years and eventually passed it on to her own children. Pat and her three children performed at local and area rodeos until 1976. </span></i></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-16542597567436711132023-04-10T11:01:00.000-07:002023-04-10T11:01:17.005-07:00William Sanford Bonnell (Billy Bonnell) & The Rodeo<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span><span style="color: black; font-kerning: none;">Another story from </span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link: </span><span style="color: #757575; font-kerning: none;">Charlie Bunnell's Bonnells & Bunnells of Note </span><span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></i><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Patricia (Howell) McKinley of Cedar Vale, Kansas, sent Charlie a biography of her grandfather William “Billy” Bonnell. Pat said that like Billy, her parents, her husband, her and their three children have all been in the rodeos. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="488" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEqKp6QsIelScbZlMOlPkr1AXTjF4l0S-iIR1FcQq6JEde0uwSJpCu0y_jGtBQsH_anq1u7FuUFG8isPzHWQqs63c1MQEqhtFRgx4WBdQAhjI647hayY8JLRizVsKu5OyBqCprSkkDfny0sFlY70i-RS12BMERkrGnqHJWAVqRwj3HrF1mhwtDxWGJ/w234-h320/Screenshot%202023-04-04%20at%2011.45.20.png" width="234" /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">W.S. (Billy) Bonnell was born in Mayetta, KS July 19, 1877 and began roping and breaking horses at an early age along with his two younger brothers. At the age of 12, after the death of his father, he rode a horse from Gravette, Arkansas to Ponca City, Oklahoma to work for the ranches of Moncravy and Fuller as a way of helping the family income. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">While cowboying on the ranch he soon perfected a method of tying a calf that was faster than others at the time. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Billy and his two brothers worked with the Pawnee Bill Wild West Show and participated in the filming of a motion picture which sadly no longer exists. In fact, Billy and his wife Mary wired money to Europe for the brothers to come back to the U. S. when the European tour went bust. Billy also worked with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show and was well acquainted and traveled with many of the people there including Bill Pickett and Lucille Mulhall. In fact, he named his youngest daughter Lillian Lucille after his good friend Lucille Mulhall. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">
</span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Billy’s horse Romeo, which he used for many years was considered one of the world’s best roping horses. Many record holders and great people rode and appreciated Romeo’s skills and personality, including Tom Mix, Buffalo Vernon, Ellison Carroll, Fred Beason, and Lucille Mulhall. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Billy helped organize and produce “Ropings and Ridings” or Roundups” as many Rodeos were called then, in the south central Kansas and north central Oklahoma areas and was a co-founder of his local polo club, in Cedar Vale, KS. His first newspaper documented win that we have found in steer roping was in October 1907 in Stroud Oklahoma, at 24 seconds. He broke the current world record in calf roping in Cedar Vale, Kansas in August 1909 at 25 seconds. The original rules required much more of a roper as the calf got a much longer head start.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Billy competed at the Stampede in Calgary Canada in 1912 and is listed in the book “Man, Beast, Dust” (see note below) as one of the important contestants of that year who did command performances for the visiting royal family from England. Billy booked a box car under his name to leave from Arkansas City, Kansas for the horses of the group from this area competing and traveling to the Stampede in Winnipeg, Canada in 1913. Among the group were Henry Grammer, Joe Gardner, George, Bert and Charles Weir, and Lucille Mulhall, only to find out that when returning at the custom house at the border one member had sold his horse. Whereupon Billy was detained to get the papers proving the sale and accounting or the difference in the livestock count. That year of the Stampede Bill Bonnell, Joe Gardner, W. Hale, Charles Johnson, and Bert Weir were declared the world’s champion steer roping team.<br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4NlOGH8JZLI1MsunAt2vd5M-myl29SVLovw0AtbUSaZLVcQLXAhAtZ0c-pLZCYSyw-2M6cU7SJC5PCgJW9vxuunD4aSVbpIa3IB8pvs_MYFWHDMl7V_ZB23VV0mEHKU72umOyK8wsoOEgIKv3PzyzhUAUFRFgbWqJpcoXtiNUVcFXhTZW4HdfUrI/s796/Screenshot%202023-04-04%20at%2011.55.11.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="546" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4NlOGH8JZLI1MsunAt2vd5M-myl29SVLovw0AtbUSaZLVcQLXAhAtZ0c-pLZCYSyw-2M6cU7SJC5PCgJW9vxuunD4aSVbpIa3IB8pvs_MYFWHDMl7V_ZB23VV0mEHKU72umOyK8wsoOEgIKv3PzyzhUAUFRFgbWqJpcoXtiNUVcFXhTZW4HdfUrI/w274-h400/Screenshot%202023-04-04%20at%2011.55.11.png" width="274" /></a></span><span style="font-size: medium;">No Rodeo or roping was too big or too small for him. In the 1920’s, in his mid forties, Billy Bonnell continued to rope in more local competitions rather than traveling far away. This allowed him to attend to his family, land, and livestock obligations at home. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He broke and trained horses for roping, racing, work teams and polo through the years. He taught and encouraged many young cowboys and his own daughter and granddaughter to compete and entertain in rodeos. He saw his friends at the ropings and kept pace with the winnings, even beating his friend Ben Johnson at Winfield, Kansas July of 1920. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Billy continued to train horses and compete into his older age. At the age of 64 years old Billy won 2<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>nd</sup></span> place at Moline, Kansas competing against ropers less than half his age. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He died on June 4, 1951 at 74 years old with many paying their respects. Ben Johnson, Jr remembered him fondly to members of our family and stated that he deserved to be in the Cowboy Hall of Fame. He has become a part of local history and folklore, and is fondly remembered by his family. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">[Charlie’s Note: The Ben Johnson, Jr mentioned above was a rodeo cowboy, Hollywood stunt man, actor, and rancher who was in several movies with John Wayne. William Sanford “Billy” Bonnell is 002590 in Claude’s database. His lineage can be seen in the Direct Lines entry by his granddaughter, Pat (Howell) McKinley.]</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Blog Editor’s Note: “Man, Beast, Dust, the Story of Rodeo, ” by Clifford P. Westermeier, World Press, 1947 was reprinted in 1987 by The University of Nebraska Press but is no longer for sale from it. There are many used copies available through online booksellers.</span></span></div>
<div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-83300546829388779502023-04-09T13:59:00.001-07:002023-04-10T11:00:18.585-07:00Nell Bunnell and the Chautauqua Shows: A Research Study<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span>Another story from </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link: </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Charlie Bunnell's Bonnells & Bunnells of Note </a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">This story is not reprinted verbatim from Charlie's book. Some of his internet links don't work any more. When possible they've been replaced with active links. </span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.1px;">Nell Bunnell-Smith was a prominent and popular </span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.1px;">American Chautauqua s</span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.1px;">inger. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.1px;">The University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections Department is the go to resource for information on Chautaqua performers and the Chautauqua Circuit and much is available online at: </span></span><a href="https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/tc/" style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.1px;" target="_blank">Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century</a></p><p style="color: #0b4cb4; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px; text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
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<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">At the time of this blog post the digital collection includes two items relating to Nell Bunnell/Nell Bunnell-Smith. This one is in the public domain:</span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKb9hoUKVStdQKkxW7xrlPcRDKAG3CNoqZK6WHsQU2yShNGAkCObzYXbqU2YTGRfeurZdr7mkkIYGDsjAb4L4GXyqYgrhTHomhTm0PvtZx0tixvDrPUlQRpyfgob-SnMhwlvSxHMPF6kbqwqqdrFEQM3uCGnC6__-QnhO1dMkWZLJ0AJsyPl7B7Yi/s2075/mme_bunnell-smith_soprano.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2075" data-original-width="1562" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKb9hoUKVStdQKkxW7xrlPcRDKAG3CNoqZK6WHsQU2yShNGAkCObzYXbqU2YTGRfeurZdr7mkkIYGDsjAb4L4GXyqYgrhTHomhTm0PvtZx0tixvDrPUlQRpyfgob-SnMhwlvSxHMPF6kbqwqqdrFEQM3uCGnC6__-QnhO1dMkWZLJ0AJsyPl7B7Yi/s320/mme_bunnell-smith_soprano.jpg" width="241" /></a></span></div><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;">The rights of the other brochure are restricted: Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.</span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;">It is a 3-page Redpath brochure promoting the concert trio of Nell Bunnell, Helen Crowe and Ethel Freeman. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: -0.1px; text-align: left;">"A company of exceptional artists giving a versatile, artistic and popular entertainment," according to the brochure's cover.</span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;">Charlie's transcription is permissable, however: “Ms. Bunnell might be called the ‘vocalist of the heart.’ She sings the songs that are dear to the people; songs that have been employed to express their joys and their griefs, their hopes and fears. Her personality is most winsome, her repertoire is universally popular and not the least of the charm of her work is the fact that one distinctly understands every word she sings.”</span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><b>The rest is verbatim from Charlie's book, and shows the meticulous research he and his correspondents conducted to complete and correct Claude Bonnell's database.</b></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;"></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the first issue of the Newsletter that published, March 2003 (Vol. 17, No. 1), on pages 10 and 11 we had a short article on Miss Nell Bunnell who was an Unattached Branch. She was a soprano singer who toured with the Chautauqua shows. And from one short piece I had learned that she did marry and, ahead of her time, used a hyphenated last name: Nell Bunnell-Smith. Recently I decided to reopen the search for her ancestry believing that so much data had been added to the internet in the last 8 years that I should be able to learn more. And I was right. I found more than 40 pages from newspapers and magazines that have her name on them. And along the way I had some help from subscribers. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: -0.1px;"></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He learned from the Stonghurst, IL <b>Stronghurst Graphic, September 4, 1913 </b></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: -webkit-center;"> (<a href="http://quillnewspaper.com/theGraphic/Apr2600.html" target="_blank">Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross Registrar for Daniel McMillan Chapter, N.S.D.A.R.1913</a>) </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">that Ms. Bunnell appeared there at a Chautauqua on the preceding Sunday, August 31</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: normal;"><sup>st</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;">: “</span>Miss Nell Bunnell proved she still possesses complete mastery over a soprano voice, "…” </span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Then on Jan 12, 1928 in the Anadarko, Oklahoma Tribune (NewspaperArchive.com) a Nell Bunnell is again mentioned, but nothing indicates that this is the same Nell cited above: “MRS. NELL BUNNELL and JANE ARLENE of Chickasha are here this week while her sister, Mrs. IDA WRIGHT, is convalescing from an attack of tonsilitis.” <i>(Blog editor's note: at the time this article was originally published in the newsletter, Charlie's reference was to a transcription: </i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040124063647/http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcaddo/newspapers/atjan28.txt" style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;" target="_blank">Caddo Co. OK Newspaper - Anadarko Tribune Submitted By Sandy Miller</a></span></p><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></span></span><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Trying to track down Nell Bunnell to see where she lived and worked and when and whom she married was one of the first challenges. I was able to find the following printed sources through Ancestry.com and when read in the order they appeared, there begins to appear an outline of much of her life. In part, this exercise serves as a good example of how much information can be gleaned from sources other than court house records. </span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">S1: Hamilton Daily News, Hamilton Oho</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">S2: Hamilton Journal & Hamilton Evening Journal, Hamilton, Ohio</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">S3: Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach, FL</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">S4: The Lyceumite & Talent, published by The Lyceum Magazine, Chicago, IL</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">S5: The Lyceum Magazine, Chicago, IL</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">S6: Visitor’s Guide and Municipal Band Program, Greater Palm Beach, #1469</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">S7: Florida Divorce Index, 1927-2001</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">S8: The Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach, FL.</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">S9: Florida Death Index</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">S10: Ohio Department of Health Death Index</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1908 - “Song and Story. Miss Nell Bunnell of Middletown, and Miss Bertha Johns give an evening of sound and story tonight at West Elkton, this being the third number on the lecture course there.” S2, 18 Dec 1908, pg. 6.</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1910 - “The Redpath Concert Trio for 1910-1911 will include Nell Bunnell, Middletown, Ohio, soprano; …” S4, Feb 1910, pg. 54</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1910 - Soloist at the Georgia Chautauqua, Albany, GA, April 17-23, 1910. S4, Apr 1910, pg. 58</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1911 - Recovering from throat trouble and “will head the ‘Nell Bunnell Concert Company’ …” S4, Apr 1911, pg. 50</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1911 - Appeared at a Chautauqua in Dothan, AL in early 1911. S4, Jul 1911, pg. 23</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1911 - “Dr. W. L. Davidson corrects a statement in a recent issue to the effect that Miss Nell Bunnell of Hamilton, O., has been compelled to give up her platform work thru ill health. He says Miss Bunnell has finished her tour of his Chautauquas in splendid form and never did better work in her life.” S4, Jul 1911, pg. 43</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1911 - “The attractions appearing for the Alkahest assemblies are William Jennings Bryan, Evelyn Bargelt, Nell Bunnell, …” S4, Sep 1911, pg. 24</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1911 - On Sept. 18, 1911, the “Nell Bunnell Concert Co.,” appeared at the Millionaire’s Club, Copper Hill, TN. S4, Oct 1911, pg. 44</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1911 - “Miss Nell Bunnell was taken sick at Micanopy, Florida, and compelled to return to her home in Middletown, Ohio. She is at the head of her own company.” S4, Dec 1911, pg. 45</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1912 - “Miss Nell Bunnell, who is at the head of her own company this season, and who suffered from a severe case of malaria fever contracted during her tour in Florida in the early fall, rejoined her company the first of December and is doing better work than ever. She lost several pounds of flesh during her illness, but none of her voice. …” S4, Jan 1912, pg. 44.</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1912 - Through the spring and early summer she appeared in Florala, AL; Bonliay, Lakeland, Orlando, and Gainesville, FL; Atlanta, GA. S4, multiple issues. S4 & S5, multiple issues.</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1913 - She again covered the southern circuit, performing at Waycross, GA; Defuniak Springs, FL at a minimum. S4 & S5, multiple issues.</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1913 - “Nell Bunnell, the lyceum singer, is to be married.” S5, Jul 1913, pg. 38.</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1920 – “Administratrix named for H. H. Smith Estate. Judge R. S. Woodruff in probate court Thursday appointed Nell B. Smith of Middletown, to be administratrix of the $12,500 estate of Harvey H. Smith, late of Lemon township.” S1, 3 Dec 1920, pg. 20 [That estate would equate to about $135,000 today]</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1923 – “Entertain Vets. … Mrs. Nell Bunnell Smith and other prominent entertainers from Middletown also appeared on the program.” S1, 10 Apr 1923, pg. 15.</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1925 – “Nancy and Jacob Smith, children of Mrs. Nell Bunnell Smith are seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia at their residence on Coles road.” S1, 24 Feb 1925, pg. 9.</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1925 – “Mrs. Edward Bunnell of Coles Road, is very ill at her home. Her friends are wishing for her speedy recovery.” S1, 4 Mar 1925, pg. 7. [This may be Nell’s mother.]</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1925 – “Nell Bunnell-Smith Appointed Guardian. Nell Bunnell-Smith made application and was appointed guardian of Nancy Jane Smith and Jacob E. Smith, minors, in probate court Thursday. The estate consists of $900 in cash and real estate in Florida and Canada worth $200. She gave $2,500 bond with S. E. Bunnell and W. H. Johnson as sureties.” S1, 23 Jul 1925, pg. 16. [S. E. Bunnell may be Nell’s father.]</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1925-1926 – Winter season, Nell Bunnell Roser performed vocal solos at the Municipal Band performance at West Palm Beach, on 28 Feb., 3 Mar., 4 Mar., and 6 Mar. S6, 1925-1926. [Nell has remarried]</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1926 – “Lad is Injured. Jacob Smith, son of Mrs. Nell Bunnell Smith-Roser, Miami, Fla., visiting relatives in this city [Middletown] was injured when at play near his home today, and underwent an operation at Middletown hospital.” S1, 16 Jun. 1926, pg. 7.</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1926 – “Complimenting her sister, Mrs. Nell Bunnell Roser, of Miami, Fla., who is to return home Sunday after a two month visit here, Mrs. Arthur Harvey collected …” S1, 4 Sep 1926, pg. 7. [Establishes that Nell had a sister]</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1926 – “Word was received from Harold Yaw, Mrs. Nell Bunnell Roser and Mrs. Tom May, all former Middletown residents now in Miami, that all were safe. Yaw and Mrs. May suffered heavy financial losses due to damage to buildings.” S2, 22 Sep. 1926, pg. 16. [On 17 Sep. 1926 the Miami/Palm Beach area was struck by a tremendous hurricane with 130 mph winds. About 450 people were killed.]</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1927 – “Ed Bunnell returned to Middletown Thursday after passing the winter with his daughter Nell Bunnell Roser, at Fort Worth, Fla. Mr. Bunnell will remain in this city for the summer with his daughter Mrs. Arthur Harvey and family.” S1, 14 May 1927, pg. 7. [Nell’s father is Ed, which may be his middle name.]</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1927 – Divorce between Charles A. Roser and Nell Bunnell. S7</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1930 – “D.P. Council Marries Nell Bunnell Roser in Ceremony at Asheville. Ashville, N. C.., Sept. 6. Verification of the marriage of D. P. Council, well known Lake Worth, Fla., resident and Madame Nell Bunnell Roser, prominent Lake Worth singer, was given here Saturday. The marriage took place here in July, it was learned Saturday, but the couple made every effort to keep it secret until their return to lake Worth. …” S8, 7 Sep 1930, pg. 8.</span></p>
<p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1931 – “Mrs. D. P. Council (Nell Bunnell Smith) and son Buddy of Lakeworth [sic] Fla., left Monday for their summer home near Danville, KY., where they will spend the summer months. They were accompanied by the former’s daughter, Miss Nancy Jane Smith and Miss Robin Vorhis.” S1, 16 Jun 1931, pg. 7.</span></p>
</span></span><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1938 – Ohio Department of Health Index:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Date of Death</p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Name of Deceased County & City<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Vol. No. Certificate<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Mo Day Yr</span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Council, Nell Bunnell <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Middletown<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 8795<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 33008<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 6 08 38<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The newspaper articles alone provide a wealth of information: her career, marriages, death of her first husband, her children, residences, possible parents, and a sister who married Arthur Harvey. They certainly point us in the directions we need to look for more detailed or official information and sources.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Enter Freda Long, 82 Elm St., Germantown, OH 45327, who found Nell’s gravestone in the Woodside Cemetery, Middletown, OH which provided us with her birth date (1882) and death date (1938). I later found her cemetery listing on the web which shows her name as Nell Bunnell-Council. Also buried in that cemetery are Dr. H. H. Smith (1872 -1920), Nell’s 1st husband, and Samuel E. and Martha A. Bunnell. Samuel could well be the S. E. Bunnell mentioned in the 1925 guardianship notice; however in the previous article a Mrs. Edward Bunnell is mentioned. The 1927 notice states that her father’s name is Ed which seems to confirm that Samuel goes by a middle name, such as Edward. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Adding to the confusion are two more newspaper articles and a death certificate index:</span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1933 – S. D. Bunnell. Samuel Daniel Bunnell, 72, suffered a stroke of paralysis a year ago since which time he had been making his home with his daughter, Mrs. D. T. Council in Lake Worth, Fla., where he died on Wednesday night. For many years Mr. Bunnell was connected with the American Tobacco company and was prominent in civic affairs in Middletown. He retired 10 years ago. The remains will be brought to Middletown and taken to the house of another daughter, Mrs. Arthur Harvey. Funeral arrangements will be made after the arrival of the remains here.” S2, 4 May 1933, pg. 15.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Florida Death Index, 1933: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span>Guide</p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Name<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> <span> </span></span></span>Place<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sex<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Col.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vol.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Number<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> <span> </span></span></span>Year</span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bunnell, Samuel Edgar<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Palm Beach<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> M<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> W<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>583<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 8057<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1933</span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Claude’s database shows Nell’s sister, Rose, as marrying Arthur Harvey. And he cites the Hampden co., MA Vital Records as stating that Rose’s parents were S. Edgar and Martha. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If the Samuel Bunnell in the Death Index is the same one whose remains were sent to Middletown, then the newspaper appears to have printed the wrong middle name. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To try and sort out these inconsistencies I have ordered the death certificates for Nell Bunnell and Samuel Edgar Bunnell. But even without them, the above information does provide some updates for the database:</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CB008523 in the database is Nellie I. Bonnell. I believe Claude used the Bonnell spelling base on the 1900 census for Butler County, OH. Nellie, her father Edward, mother Martha and sister Ruth L. are listed as “Bonnell.” However, based on the multiple sources cited above, the spelling is definitely “Bu” rather than “Bo.” Apparently the census taker wrote down what he thought he heard. I’m confident this is our Nellie based on other family info in the data base.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nellie’s marriages can now be added to the web page.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">b.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Her singing career should be mentioned.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">c.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Her death date and burial location can now be shown.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CB040855 is Nell Bunnell who married Charles A. Roser. This entry should be eliminated as the information will be listed with CB008523.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nell’s first husband was Harry H. Smith, born 1872 and died November 1920. His type of practice was Allopath and he practiced in Jeffersonville, IN, 1907 and Middletown, OH, Oct 24, 1911. He was a graduate of Indiana Medical College, School of Medicine of Purdue University, Indianapolis, 1907. [Source: Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929, Ancestry.com].</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Next I wanted to try and determine Nell’s lineage. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Parents: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>probable: Samuel Edgar/Edward and Martha Bunnell </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>possible Edward and Martha Bunnell. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Grandparents: </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Warren County 1880 census shows Arch and Hannah Bunnell with a son Samuel E., b. about 1862 and a William and Mary A Bunnell with a son Eddie, b. abt1871. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hamilton County 1880 census shows William & Roxyann Bunnell with a son Samuel, b. about 1862.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Butler County 1880 census shows Oliver and Mary A. Bunnell with a son Eddie, b. abt. 1868.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Seneca, Summit and Wyandot, Ohio each show an Edward Bunnell or Bonnel b. between 1868 and 1879 who would be considered if the death certificates show that Nell’s father’s name was Edward.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, in the next issue we hope to complete Nell’s lineage based on the results of the death certificates.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the continuation of the Nell Bunnell saga, we received her death certificate the day after we finished the previous newsletter. Here’s what we learned from it:</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Name: Nell Bunnell Council Address: 600 Alameda St, Middletown, OH Husband: David P. Council.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Date of Birth: Nov. 22, 1882 Age at death: 55 years, 6 months, 16 days Date of Death; June 8, 1938</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Birthplace: Red Lion Ohio Father’s name: S.E. Bunnell Father’s Birthplace: Ohio </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mother’s Name: Martha Kim Mother’s Birthplace: Ind. Informant: Ruth Harvey</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trade or profession: Musician</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cause of Death: Carcinoma Oesophagus, right breast, left hip, cervical vertebrae, cerebral Hemorrage.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While I was hoping it would show her father’s precise name, the S. E. certainly narrows it down</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A couple of days later I received the death certificate for Samuel Edgar Bunnell, which was listed in the Florida index of death certificates. And it provided precisely the information I was looking for. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Name: Samuel Edgar Bunnell Address: Lake Osborne Rd, Lantana, FL Wife: Martha Bunnell, deceased..</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Date of Birth: Jun 1, 1861 Age at death: 71 years, 11 months, 2 days Date of Death; May 2, 1933</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Birthplace: Warren Co., Ohio Father’s name: Archibald Bunnell Father’s Birthplace: Ohio </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mother’s Name: Hannah Schnorff Mother’s Birthplace: Ohio Informant: Mrs. Nell B. Council</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trade or profession: Retired Tobacco Mfg. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cause of Death: Cerebral Hemorrage.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This clears up and consolidates several entries in the database for Nell, her father and her sister.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nell Bunnell was born 22 Nov 1882 in Red Lion, Warren co., OH daughter of Samuel Edgar and Martha (Kim or Kern) Bunnell.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">M. (1) Dr. Harry H. Smith, b. 1872; d. 1920. Issue (surname Smith)</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nancy J., b. abt 1916</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jacob E., b. abt 1918</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">M. (2) abt. 1925, Charles A. Roser; div. 1927; no issue</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">M (3) July 1930, David P. Council; no issue</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the database </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CB040855 Nell Bunnell should be removed. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CB008523. Nellie I. Bonnell & CB008524 Ruth Louise Bonnell should be realigned under CB341141, Samuel Edgar Bunnell and the spelling of their surname corrected.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CB008522 Edward L. S. Bonnell: All entries regarding Nellie and Ruth Bunnell and Martha Kern should be removed. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CB341141 Samuel Edgar Bunnell: b. 1 Jun 1861, Warren co., OH, son of Archibald and Hannah (Schnorff) Bunnell. M. 22 Feb 1882, Martha A. Kim or Kern, b. 1861, d. 1925. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally, using what we have learned and the database, we can now report Nell’s ancestry back to William the immigrant: William1, Nathaniel2, James3, Stephen4, Jonas5, George6, Archibald7, Samuel8, Nell9.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;">
</p><p style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"></p><p></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-88192329535072069862023-04-08T10:53:00.001-07:002023-04-10T10:59:26.863-07:00Lafayette Houghton Bunnell and The Yosemite Valley<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Florida was featured in the last story from </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link: </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Charlie Bunnell's Bonnells & Bunnells of Note </a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">California is featured in this story, </span>written by William Austin and originally published in the Bunnell/Bonnell Newsletter, vol. VII, No. 2. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Lafayette Bunnell's books are available online at Internet Archive through these links: <a href="https://archive.org/details/discoveryofyosem01bunn" target="_blank">Discovery of The Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851 Which Led to that Event</a> and <a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028913353" target="_blank">Winona (We-no-nah) and its environs on the Mississippi in ancient and modern days</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_92o8KDnjfx4GllZWDI1LXKsEhrSX1YiU1y13-l5G6qHplAUecVx_MaTbaIdEQTG8nodPZf2QJT-VSQSfsHvAc1fWh7AulahKxtY_WLKHlTMjvrW4yqve0dOdDOktk3sLM0z-0Fasvsv93gjc6QPPViqAa_kR283aVo8yUJemV_oX4kTXNMwI4So/s758/Screenshot%202023-04-07%20at%2008.28.17.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="510" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_92o8KDnjfx4GllZWDI1LXKsEhrSX1YiU1y13-l5G6qHplAUecVx_MaTbaIdEQTG8nodPZf2QJT-VSQSfsHvAc1fWh7AulahKxtY_WLKHlTMjvrW4yqve0dOdDOktk3sLM0z-0Fasvsv93gjc6QPPViqAa_kR283aVo8yUJemV_oX4kTXNMwI4So/s320/Screenshot%202023-04-07%20at%2008.28.17.png" width="215" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Several correspondents have asked me about <b>Lafayette Houghton Bunnell</b>, one of the discoverers of the Yosemite Valley. He was descended from <b>William Bunnell</b>, the immigrant, through Benjamin, Benjamin, Gershom, and Job to his father <b>Dr. Bradley Bunnell</b>, who married <b>Charlotte Houghton</b>. Although Lafayette has no direct descendants, since he never had any children of his own, his career was so interesting as to warrant including an account of it in the Newsletter.</i></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>His father was a physician, a native of Fairfield County, Connecticut; his mother was born in Vermont. They married in Vermont and began to raise a family there. They are said to have had twelve children, six of whom grew to adulthood. By 1814 they had moved to Homer, Cortland County, New York, where Lafayette's older brother <b>Willard Bradley</b> was born. The 1820 census found them in Barre, Genesee (now Orleans) County, New York. Their next move took them to Rochester, Monroe </i></span><i>County, New York</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>. Lafayette Houghton Bunnell was born there 13 March 1824.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>They were still living in Rochester when the 1830 census was taken, but two or three years later Dr. Bunnell removed his family to Detroit, Michigan. Here, on the edge of the frontier, Lafayette grew up, acquiring, along with an education in the classics, a useful knowledge of the customs and language of the Chippewa Indians.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Bradley Bunnell wanted Lafayette to follow in his own footsteps and become a doctor. When he was 16 years old, after a short experience working as a salesman and collector for a pharmaceutical company, Lafayette reluctantly began to study medicine in his father's office. He endured this for a couple of years, then followed his trader brother Willard to Wisconsin, and took up 160 acres at LaCrosse.</i></span></p><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>He came back to Detroit in 1844 and entered the office of a Dr. Scoville, to continue the study of medicine. His studies were interrupted by the Mexican War. On 2 November 1847 he enlisted in Company B, First Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in as a Hospital Steward. The DETROIT SOCIETY OF GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH MAGAZINE, Vol. 41, #1, Fall 1977, has the following:</i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>"Descriptive Roll of the First Regiment of Michigan Volunteers 1847-1848: Lafayette H. age 25 years. Height 5'10". Light complexion, dark eyes and hair. Born in Rochester, N. Y. Druggest. Appointed Hospital Steward 12 Nov. 1847."</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Lafayette did not participate in any of the engagements of the war, since he did not enlist until after the termination of hostilities. The American forces were in complete control of all Mexican strong points by the end of October 1847. The War Department records show that Lafayette Bunnell was a hospital steward at Cordova. One account states, "During the illness of the doctors, he had entire charge of the hospital at Cordova, Mexico, for a time, and at the close of the war be had medical charge of one battalion." I have not found confirmation for this statement, but a comment on page 357 of THE MEXICAN WAR, by Edward D. Mansfield, 10th edition, 1849, lends credence to it: "Fifty thousand men remained in service, chiefly in Mexico, from the 1st of January, 1848, till the 1st of July, 1848. In this time, the hospitals were full of the sick, many of whom died."</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Lafayette Bunnell was mustered out of the service with his company on 26 July 1848. He later demonstrated a working knowledge of the Spanish language, which was probably acquired during his service in Mexico.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>In January 1848, while Lafayette was in Mexico, gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. As soon as he was mustered out, he traveled on to California to begin placer mining in the creeks and rivers in Mariposa </i></span><i>County, California</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>. The 1850 census found him there and listed him as age 27, born in New York. (An <b>Isaac B. Bonnell</b>, age 27, born in Pennsylvania, is also listed in the 1850 census in Mariposa County, but I have not been able to determine who he was.)</i></span></p></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>During the year 1850 the miners in Mariposa County were exposed more and more to the depredations of the Indians. Resenting the steady takeover of their lands by the white gold hunters and settlers, the Indians sporadically raided trading posts and mining camps, murdering the occupants and carrying off as plunder whatever they found of value. They developed a strong taste for the flesh of horses and mules, and Lafayette himself lost all of his animals to one of their raids. "No horse was considered too valuable for them to eat," was his comment.</i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>In response, aid was requested of the state, and the governor issued a proclamation calling for the enrollment of first 100, then 200, able-bodied volunteers. Most of the miners in Mariposa </i></span><i>County</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>, including Lafayette Bunnell, enlisted in what became known as the "Mariposa Battalion." The volunteers had to provide their own mounts and equipment, and the State furnished camping gear and supplies. They were mustered in on 24 January 1851 and reported for duty on 10 February. They elected their own officers, who were then commissioned by the governor.</i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>The brigade was placed under the direction of the United States Indian Commissioners, who negotiated with the various tribes, offering food and supplies if the Indians would settle peaceably on lands designated for them. The brigade was given the job of searching the mountains and bringing in the Indians who refused to come in voluntarily.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>It was on one of these missions, in late March 1851, that a selected group of 50 or 60 of the volunteer soldiers became the first white men to enter the Yosemite Valley. The spectacular natural beauty of the scene which met his eyes created an impression of almost religious awe in Lafayette Bunnell. "My devout astonishment at the supreme grandeur of the scenery by which I was surrounded continued to engross my mind." Although the exalted emotion of his first experience of the Valley did not recur in the many other trips he made there, Lafayette never lost the feeling of wondering admiration for the glorious natural beauty of Yosemite. Many years later he published his account under the title, "Discovery of The Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851 Which Led to that Event."</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>As the men were seated around the campfire after supper on their first night in the Valley, Lafayette raised the question of what to call it. Several names were proposed, but none received general approval. Lafayette then suggested that it be named "Yosemity," the name of the local Indian tribe their troop was seeking to remove. Acclaimed by a voice vote, the name "Yosemite" still commemorates a small Indian tribe to whom the Valley once was home.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Many of the natural features of the Valley bear names today which were first applied by Lafayette Bunnell. His interest in nomenclature led him to search out the Indian names and their meanings. When he did not feel the Indian name was appropriate in either the original or in translation, he chose a descriptive English name.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Lafayette was known as "Doc" to his companions. Although he was not one of the battalion surgeons (and was not an MD at all), he did perform some medical services and received extra pay for doing so. In his history he mentions the damage to his medical and surgical supplies when he received a dunking in a mountain stream. He also refers to his treating and caring for a wounded comrade.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>The Battalion was mustered out on 25 July 1851 and its members returned to their former occupations. For the next several years Lafayette Bunnell engaged in mining and trading operations. In partnership with E. G. Barton he established a trading post on the north side of the Merced River above the mouth of the North Fork, from which they served the miners from a wide area. During the winter of 1853-54, their store was plundered by Indians, and the two employees who had been left in charge for the winter were murdered.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>During the summers of 1854, 1855 and 1856, Lafayette took part in surveying operations testing the possibility of bringing water from the Merced River down to mining areas in Tuolumne County. In 1856, after the completion of his survey work, he engaged, with George W. Coulter and others, in building "The Coultersville Free Trail," into Yosemite Valley. Apparently he invested money in this operation, for he said be never got any return for it.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Before the end of 1856 Lafayette wound up his affairs in California and moved back home. On 24 August 1859, at Homer, Winona </i></span><i>County</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>, Minnesota, he was married by <b>Rev. John Quigley</b> to Miss <b>Sarah A. Smith</b>. The marriage was witnessed by his brother and sister-in-law, Willard B. and Matilda Bunnell.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>The next period for which we have information includes the years of his Civil War service. Hank Johnston says that he served in both the First and second Battles of Bull Run, and that he was present at Appomattox at the end of the war. His regiment took part in the First Battle of Bull Run on 21 July 1861, and Lafayette was presumably with it. However, he was no longer in the Army when the Second Bull Run took place on 29 August 1862. He was back in service at the time of the surrender at Appomattox, but I have not seen evidence as to where he was serving at the time.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>He enlisted the first time on 18 April 1861, at Lacrosse, Wisconsin, in Company B, 2nd Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, as a hospital steward. He served until 9 May 1862, when he was discharged at Falmouth, Virginia, apparently on account of bronchitis, for which he received a pension many years later.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>During the summer of 1863 he was employed by Major Hatch, of Hatch's Battalion In gathering in and removing the Winnebago Indians to the Missouri River. The service for which he was paid included medical attendance.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>On 4 November 1863, at LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Lafayette enlisted a second time, as a private in Company B, 2nd Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry. The following summer he was at Vicksburg, Mississippi, caring for and putting sick men on board steamers to be sent north by order of the medical officers of the department. His company commander, Capt. Thomas J. LaFlesh, later deposed that Private Bunnell became disabled on or about 31 July 1864 from exposure to the sun and over work while in the line of duty. He was given sick leave beginning 21 August 1864, and he returned to Wisconsin. He returned to Vicksburg when his sick leave terminated on 30 November 1864.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>While he was home in Wisconsin, he finally received his degree as Doctor of Medicine. It was granted on 2 October 1864 by The LaCrosse Medical College of LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Although his diploma implies that he took courses at the College and states that he was tested by the professors, the LaCrosse Medical College never held any classes nor actually graduated anyone. I suppose we would call it an honorary degree. In Lafayette's case, however, his years of study with his father and Dr. Scoville, combined with all his practical experience, would seem to have justified the degree.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>The new degree paid off several months after his return to the Army. On 19 March 1865 he was promoted to Assistant Surgeon in the 36th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers. In that position he was mustered out of the Army with his regiment on 12 July 1865.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Lafayette's brother Willard had died in 1861 and left him his home in Homer, Winona </i></span><i>County</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>, Minnesota, across the Mississippi from Lacrosse, Wisconsin. The 1870 census found Lafayette and Sarah living there engaged in farming. They had no children of their own, but his 12-year-old nephew <b>Willard Bradley Bunnell, Jr</b>., was living with them.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Sometime during the ensuing decade, concerned that the true story of the Mariposa Battalion and Yosemite had not been told, he compiled his best-known work, DISCOVERY OF THE YOSEMITE AND THE INDIAN WAR OF 1851 WHICH LED TO THAT EVENT. The book was published in 1880 and was successful enough to call for second and third revised editions by 1892.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Lafayette Bunnell received several pensions based on his military service, On 21 June 1881 pension #191,126 was issued providing him $4.00 per month from 10 May 1862, when he was discharged the first time for bronchitis, but excluding the period of his second enlistment between 4 November 1863 and 12 July 1865.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>In 1887 congress provided for pensions for veterans of the Mexican War. Lafayette applied, and pension #8346 was approved for $8.00 per month from 29 January 1887. His first pension was then dropped.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>On 20 October 1890, after Congress passed a law providing pensions for invalid veterans of the Civil War, whether or not their disabilities were service related, Lafayette's pension #191,126 was reinstated at $12.00 per month. It was paid for the rest of his life.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><i>He was still living in Homer, Minnesota, when the 1900 census gave his occupation as "author." Besides his book about Yosemite, he had written a number of magazine and newspaper articles, as well as WINONA AND ITS ENVIRONS ON THE MISSISSIPPI, almost 700 pages of information about Winona </i></span><i>County</i><span><i>, Minnesota.</i></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Lafayette Houghton Bunnell died at his home in Homer, Minnesota, on 22 July 1903, nearly 80 years old.</i></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-36494362674856325092023-04-07T08:25:00.001-07:002023-04-10T10:58:48.110-07:00Alvah Alonzo Bunnell and Bunnell, Florida<div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The first story from </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b></i></span></div><div><i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link: </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Charlie Bunnell's Bonnells & Bunnells of Note </a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> </span></i></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgvEgxYvKn98P9R0WWkiWpNfff_J-55vKdSTFLgYw9tpvW4PmsRiWVYBSJ89WKOnAe7g0ZlMJd42BfUWWmjcRfzUmEHdz9Mpnc08iRX8C4E341zTGVEQQc2eL1iPyITgUhdeAWNFL6L8VMZy_gh9ueLvfP4tjD0ohCfokcaisP2vvTBwDEDG17zCWi/s1082/Screenshot%202023-03-29%20at%2011.57.33.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1082" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgvEgxYvKn98P9R0WWkiWpNfff_J-55vKdSTFLgYw9tpvW4PmsRiWVYBSJ89WKOnAe7g0ZlMJd42BfUWWmjcRfzUmEHdz9Mpnc08iRX8C4E341zTGVEQQc2eL1iPyITgUhdeAWNFL6L8VMZy_gh9ueLvfP4tjD0ohCfokcaisP2vvTBwDEDG17zCWi/w400-h270/Screenshot%202023-03-29%20at%2011.57.33.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: normal;">Alvah Alonzo Bunnell, with his wife, Susan Cynthia Goodwin Bunnell</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;">Alvah Alonzo Bunnell</b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;"> was born 22 August 1855 in Florid</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;">a, the son of <b>Eli and Mary Ann Phoebe (Caulder) Bunnell</b>, both of Darien, GA. His mother died when he was 9 Years old in 1864. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;">He </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;">served as a drummer boy with the Confederate forces about 1865. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;">On 14 October 1877, at Hastings, Saint Johns co, Florida, he married <b>Susan Cynthia Godwin</b>. She was born 24 February 1857 in Georgia just across the line from Lake City, Florida. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;">In the late 1880's he established a cypress shingle mill or a sawmill along the railroad in Flagler County, Florida, and proposed to furnish wood for the woodburning locomotives and prevailed on the railroad to make stops at his plant. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;">For lack of a better name, they called it the Bunnell stop. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;">By 1903 the settlement, then called Bunnell, was big enough to have a post office. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;">No other Bunnell seems to have been involved in subsequent development of the town, nor is one living there as of January 2015. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;">Alvah moved on to Miami in the early 1900s, and his wife died there 10 September 1931. He also died in Miami on 21 March 1944. They had 10 children.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-15571644947775860542023-04-05T11:04:00.001-07:002023-04-10T10:58:06.520-07:00Door of Hope Dolls and Claudia Leavenworth Bonnell<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> This post is a sequel to the story of <b>Cornelia Leavenworth Bonnell </b><span>from </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">former editor Charles E. Bunnell recently compiled </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). </b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link: </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bnls-of-note" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Charlie Bunnell's Bonnells & Bunnells of Note </a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> </span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As explained in earlier posts on this blog, <b>Cornelia Leavenworth Bonnell</b> founded the Door of Hope in China. The women and girls who found refuge there helped support it by making and selling dolls, which have become highly collectible. </span><span><i>Two of the footnotes cited in the original blog post on Claudia Leavenworth Bonnell related to these dolls. Charlie's transcriptions are included on this post.</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">An internet search will reveal many photos of Door of Hope Dolls. None of them will be posted here due to the potential for copyright infringement.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Door of Hope Dolls are highly prized by doll collectors as they are beautifully made and each doll is unique. In 2017 Doll Collector's Magazine published an online article on them that is well worth reading: <a href="https://dollsmagazine.com/chinas-door-of-hope-mission-dolls/" target="_blank">CHINA’S DOOR OF HOPE MISSION DOLLS</a> It says Pearl Buck volunteered at Door of Hope in 1909!!!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Theriault's (the dollmasters) made and posted an amazing YouTube video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOi1tIEggtM" target="_blank">Sicard Collection of Door of Hope Dolls at Auction July 15, 2015</a> . The bride and groom dolls featured are truly amazing. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZQydSxTzO4" target="_blank">Seminar on Door of Hope Dolls with Michael Canadas and Judi Smart</a> offers a chance to look at more wonderful examples. It's easy to see why people want to collect them.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"Identifying Door of Hope Dolls" is an article by </span></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mary Sicard</span></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> in the 1983 Doll Collector's Manual, published by The Doll Collectors of America in 1983. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0f0f0f;">"</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111; font-family: inherit;">Dolls With a Mission: The Door of Hope Mission and It's Dolls, An Illustrated Guide by Jean M. Kestel (2013) </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111; font-family: inherit;">isn't sold on Amazon, but might be available from a library.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Footnote 7</b>: Nora's Antique Dolls & Collectibles (Note: this web page is no longer available, but this is Charlie's transcription.)</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Nora’s Antique Dolls and Collectibles</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>DOOR OF HOPE DOLLS: Cornelia Bonnell, an American missionary in China helped to found the Door of Hope Receiving Home in 1901. She was appalled when observing the sale of female servants, by their owners, to wealthy owners for the purpose of becoming concubines. She started the home, with the help of officials, to keep the girls off the streets and help them learn a trade. The girls were taught sewing skills and dressmaking. The Chinese Door of Hope heads and hands (after about 1914) were carved from pearwood by expert woodcarvers from the Ningpo area which was close to Shanghai where the DOH home was first started. Earlier dolls are distinguished by the absence of hands, and some were also taller than the later dolls. The dolls were then finished by the girls in the Door of Hope home. The heads were attached to stuffed cloth bodies and dressed meticulously to represent various types of Chinese characters, ages and stations. The cloth, silks and cottons were provided by various bearby textile companies. The mission received strong local support with very little money received from overseas. Local police often brought runaways to the home for refuge. Years later, the home was divided into two homes - the Door of Hope Home for older girls and the Love School for girls under 13 years of age. By 1940, 25 different dolls were being produced and others were made on special order. However, production was sporadic as supplies became limited. In 1949, when the Communists took over China, the DOH mission re-located to Taipei, Formosa, but few dolls seem to have been made there. The girls earned from 3 to 5 cents an hour for their work and could complete about one doll a month. It is estimated that in the 48 years the Door of Hope mission existed, less than 50,000 dolls were made. The dolls were made mainly for tourists, but many of the Chinese missionaries distributed them to their own countries including China, England, Australia, the United States, and Africa.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>```````````````````````````````````````</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span>http://dahlidoll.com/Dahli/celebritydollMJ.html </span>(Note: this web page is no longer available. This is Charlie's transcription.)</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>DahliDolls.com</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>In 1901, Cornelia Bonnell opened a mission called " Door of Hope Receiving Home". This after she was shocked to find young girls dressed in silk and jewels parading down the streets of China. Girls were being displayed in front of hundreds of men in order that they might be sold as concubines, and soon discarded when they were no longer a good investment. Miss Bonnell was appalled and decided to help these girls and other similar predicaments. With the help of officials, she opened "Door of Hope Receiving Home". Girls learning skills, made dolls in order to support themselves. These dolls helped many children.</i></span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455192327799750505.post-78782867458982071482023-04-04T11:15:00.000-07:002023-04-04T11:15:29.043-07:00Cornelia Leavenworth Bonnell Writes About Door of Hope<p> The Vassar Miscellany is online at NewspaperArchive.com. The February 1914 issue contains an article written by Cornelia Leavenworth Bonnell, an 1893 Vassar graduate, "Inside and Outside the Wall."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBR4Nsf-Vp0gATp92eFwwc68ceayr5OufnfNlWx6GUHGE68-srbrkE_R7LqFTVwARflGQ1m06-QG3aKQyJE66cvPLBGXTjetnBtcb2u8Pt3Kg7K531Q3Vs_EeloPETemzKn7Fj0elsxvjg6H7pdGJHoslkXHIhWHuMlwS5gfSp1UaByDCWwmefU1qt/s1796/Poughkeepsie-Vassar-Miscellany-Feb-01-1914-p-1.Jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1796" data-original-width="1156" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBR4Nsf-Vp0gATp92eFwwc68ceayr5OufnfNlWx6GUHGE68-srbrkE_R7LqFTVwARflGQ1m06-QG3aKQyJE66cvPLBGXTjetnBtcb2u8Pt3Kg7K531Q3Vs_EeloPETemzKn7Fj0elsxvjg6H7pdGJHoslkXHIhWHuMlwS5gfSp1UaByDCWwmefU1qt/w412-h640/Poughkeepsie-Vassar-Miscellany-Feb-01-1914-p-1.Jpeg" width="412" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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