Mary Temperance Bonner

Brief Life History of Mary Temperance

When Mary Temperance Bonner was born on 23 May 1861, in Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America, her father, Ira Arthur Bonner, was 38 and her mother, Clarissa Ann Sanford, was 14. She married Thomas Addison Wilson on 7 May 1878, in Bashaw Township, Brown, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Mulligan Township, Brown, Minnesota, United States in 1880 and Harmony, Price, Wisconsin, United States in 1910. She died on 12 January 1893, in Springfield, Brown, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Springfield, Brown, Minnesota, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Addison Wilson
1858–1924
Mary Temperance Bonner
1861–1893
Marriage: 7 May 1878
Lorena Maye Wilson
1890–1980

Sources (11)

  • Mary T Wilson, "Minnesota, State Census, 1885"
  • Mary T Bonner, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"
  • Mary T Wilson, "Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001"

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World Events (8)

1862 · The Dakota Conflict/War

The Dakota War was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of Dakota Native Americans. It began along the Minnesota River four years after Minnesota was admitted as a state. The Dakota made attacks on hundreds of settlers, which resulted in their deaths. A military tribunal sentenced 303 Dakota men to death for their crimes but 264 of them were exonerated. The remaining 38 were apart of a mass hanging on December 26 that same year. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English boner(e), bonour ‘gentle, courteous’ (Old French bonnaire, shortened from debonnaire). This surname is also common in Ireland where it was adopted for Ó Cnáimhsighe, see Bonar 2.

Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Ynyr ‘son of Ynyr’, a common medieval personal name derived from Latin Honorius with fused patronymic marker (a)p, normally voiced before a vowel.

German (also Bönner): from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Bonhard, formed with the element bon ‘request, petition’ (compare Latin bonus). This surname is also found in Sweden.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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