Brief Life History of Charles
Charles Bönner was born in February 1830, in Germany. He married Sophia Nümerich on 7 November 1861, in St. Clair, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Germantown, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1880 and St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 5 February 1902, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 72.
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- Charles Bonner, "United States Census, 1880"
- Charles Bonner im Eintrag für Frank Boeving, „Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935“
- Charles Bohner in entry for Elizabeth Sutthoff, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
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1832 · Black Hawk War
"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
1833
Historical Boundaries: 1833: Clinton, Illinois, United States
1852 · The Book of Mormon Published in German
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
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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