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Prudence (Williams) Bonine (1788 - 1857)

Prudence Bonine formerly Williams
Born in Cane Creek Quaker Meeting, Chatham, North Carolina. USAmap
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Wife of — married 7 Sep 1808 in Blount County, Tennesseemap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 69 in Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, USAmap
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Biography

Prudence Williams was born in 1788 in Chatham, Alamance County, North Carolina. She was the oldest daughter and second child of Rev. William Williams Jr., and his wife, Rachel (Kemp) Williams. Her father was a Quaker minister and missionary who made many pioneering missionary journeys to spread the Word according to the Society of Friends in America. In December 1792 the Williams family received a "Removal Certificate" from the Cane Creek MM (Quaker) in North Carolina for the Lost Creek MM in Jefferson County, Tennessee. There, the family met the family of Daniel and Mary Bonine, Quakers from Pennsylvania who had emigrated south to Tennessee also as Quaker missionaries and farmers.

On September 7, 1808, Prudence Williams married David Bonine, oldest son of Daniel Bonine, in a Quaker Ceremony in either Blount or Jefferson County, Tennessee. Their first child, William Bonine, was born in July 1809, in Maryville, Blount Co., Tennessee.

Prudence (Williams) and David Bonine had 12 children:[1]

  1. William BONINE b: 1 JUL 1809 in Maryville, Blount County, Tenn.
  2. Isaac BONINE b: 3 MAR 1811 in Tennessee
  3. Rachel BONINE b: 13 FEB 1813 in Blount County, Tennessee
  4. Joshua Clark BONINE b: 4 APR 1815 in Wayne County, Indiana
  5. John BONINE b: 5 JUN 1816 in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana
  6. Mary BONINE b: 15 AUG 1819 in Wayne Co., Indiana
  7. Elizabeth "Betsy" BONINE b: 13 AUG 1821 in Wayne County, Indiana
  8. Joshua BONINE b: 18 MAR 1824 in Wayne County, Indiana
  9. Melinda BONINE b: 11 JAN 1827 in Wayne County, Indiana
  10. Mary Ann BONINE b: 3 SEP 1829 in Wayne County, Indiana
  11. Catherine BONINE b: 1830 in Wayne County, Indiana
  12. Daughter BONINE b: 1831 in Sangamon County, Illinois

The first three of their children were born in eastern Tennessee. When his father Daniel Bonine and other local Quakers decided to leave slave-owning state of Tennessee for "free" territories north of the Ohio River, newly pacified by American victories over the Indians there, David and his pregnant wife followed. A family source says they began their epic journey north in February 1814 and that their son Joshua Clark Bonine was born just after they arrived in the newly-founded Quaker settlement of Whitewater, in what would become Wayne County, Indiana (statehood Dec. 1816). Prudence's father, Rev. William Williams, led the way as he was familiar with the area, having visited it in earlier missionary journeys. He was the first European-origin settler to lay the foundations for his home in what became the town of Richmond, Indiana.[2]

David and Prudence Bonine raised their family on their family farm near Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, for the next 15 years. In about 1830, a few years after Rev. William's death in Richmond, they decided to move again, traveling west to Sangamon County, Illinois. There, Prudence, at 43 years old, had a baby daughter who did not survive. Nonetheless, they continued to farm and participate in Quaker activities in their new home for many years. They visited their offspring, spread across Indiana, Illinois and Michigan from time to time. It was on one such visit to their son, Isaac Bonine, and his family, near Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, that Prudence (Williams) Bonine fell ill and she passed away there on November 25, 1857. Her burial spot is not known.[3]

Sources

  1. Neil Smith Family Gedcom - David Bonine
  2. "Memoirs of Wayne County and the City of Richmond, Indiana: From ...," Volume 1, edited by Henry Clay Fox, 1904. Memoirs of Wayne County... A Google Book
  3. Find A Grave: Memorial #124188466 - Prudence Williams Bonine

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Acknowledgments

  • Thank you to Chet Snow for creating Williams-20505 on 16 Dec 13. He also researched and edited this profile, adding sources, on August 4, 2015. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Chet and others.




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