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- [S1948] GEDCOM: Bonnett 117340 Jean Louis.
iii. LEWIS JR. BONNETT104,105, b. 11 March 1778106,107; d. 10 January 1863108; m. JANE MCCLAIN109
- [S1577] Henry Haymond, research of Chris Waggoner, History of Harrison Co, VA, Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants Journal, Vol. XIII, Is.2.
9. Lewis3 Bonnett , Jr (Anna Elisabeth2 Waggoner, Willheim1) was born March 11, 1778 in Dunkard Creek, VA, and died January 10, 1863 in Marysville, Union Co., OH. He married Jane McClain. Notes for Lewis Bonnett , Jr: Around 1800 Lewis Bonnett, Jr. studied under William Darby, who taught in Wheeling. Darby wrote under the pen-name of Mark Bancroft and described Lewis Bonnett as a short thick man, as brave as Julius Caesar. Maj. Lewis Bonnett is listed as a soldier of 1812 and a resident of Union Co. Ohio Children of Lewis Bonnett and Jane McClain are: 44 i. Lewis4 Bonnett, born 1807; died 1881. 45 ii. John Bonnett, born 1808; died 1883. 46 iii. Lucenda Bonnett, born 1810; died 1888. 47 iv. Sarah Bonnett, born 1811; died 1891. 48 v. Isabelle Bonnett, born 1814; died 1884. 49 vi. William Bonnett, born 1816; died 1899. 50 vii. Samuel Bonnett, born 1818; died 1896. 51 viii. Elizabeth Bonnett, born 1819; died 1853. 52 ix. Jane Bonnett, born 1822; died 1907.
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- [S1584] C.B. Allman -(related to Wetzel's through Ezra Allman, married to Amanda, daughter of Eliza Wetzel Kelly?), Allman, C.B., Lewis Wetzel: Indian Fighter, (Name: The Devin-Adair Co, New York, 1939, 1961: original title: "The Life and Times of Lewis Wetzel";), 09, footnote 21; p. 10.
footnote 21: slightly different dates for "John Bonnett, Jr.", who live 81 years-- Allman footnote 21, p.10: Allman says b. 1737 in Paoli, d. March 9, 1808, aged 71 years. "His ancestors emigrated from French Flanders and were of French extraction. They settled at Paoli, PA, where his parents both died with a few years of each other. Lewis Bonnett, Sr. had one brother, Samuel, who took charge of the family after the parents' death, and moved them to the Monongahela country. In the fall of that same year, he was killed by the fall of a tree. Lewis Bonnett, Sr. enlisted into what was then called the Virginia Rangers, and was under Washington in Braddock's defeat. He was then about 18 years of age. He was not in Bouquet's expedition of 1764."
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1780 - 1839 (59 years)
d. 10 Jan 1863, Marysville, Union, Ohio, USA 
