Charles Bonner and Nancy Galbreath

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Husband Charles Bonner ¹

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           Born: 1744 1
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           Died: 20 Mar 1833 2
         Buried:  - Beulah Cemetery

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Wife Nancy Galbreath ¹

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         Father: Dr.  Galbreath (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Nancy Frazier (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Elinor Bonner ³

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         Spouse: David Henderson (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Charles Bonner

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He was born of Quaker ancestors. He came to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, from a settled eastern county, York County, probably. He often had visits from Quaker relatives and friends from "over the mountains"; to them he talked in "Friend's language". He did not wear Quaker dress, but wore, as described by a great-grandson, "the small clothes" of a Colonial gentleman, with silver buckles, and silver buckles on his shoes.

He and his wife lived for "about twenty years" in Huntington Township in York County, Pennsylvania. When he decided to remove to the western country, the following testimonial signed by twenty-one neighbors was given to him:\emdash
. . . "that Charles Bonner his wife and family both lived in our neighborhood in Huntington township in York County he and his wife about twenty years and their family since their infancy. All which time they and each of them have behaved themselves Soberly, Honestly and Inoffenceively, and are and always been, every one of them free from Public Scandal, and as they are about to Remove from hence to the Back Woods we Recommend them to all Chrystian People where it may please God to Cast their Lot, as a family worthy of their Regard and Esteem, the above is Certifyed under our hands this 29th day of October 1789".
In 1789 (or the early part of 1790) he and his family came to the "back woods" where, in 1792, he purchased 250½ acres in Pitt Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, designated on old maps at Wheatfield. On this property he built a stone house that stood until about 1899. On account of its size, solidity, and handsome finishings it was called the Castle.
Charles Bonner disposed of portions of Wheatfield until the farm was reduced to thirty-eight acres. This, under certain conditions, he willed to his granddaughter, Mrs. Nancy Duff: "in trust for the only benefit and advantage of said Nancy Duff and her children." This will, signed and witnessed January 30, 1832, was not recorded until October 23, 1866.
In 1798 he had purchased another tract of two hundred acres in Plum township, which he deeded in 1803 to his son John, "in consideration of the natural love and affection he hath for the aforesaid John Bonner his son."
His wife died when fifty years of age, and Charles Bonner's last years were spent in the Wheatfield homestead, presided over by his daughter, Mrs. Elinor Bonner Henderson. He was stricken with blindness some years before his death.

1 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 57.

2 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 60.

3 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 59.