Sarah Sharpless (Talbot) Bonine (1791 - 1872)

Born 31 Jan 1791 in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Isaac Bonine Sr — married 18 Aug 1814 in Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, USA

Descendants

Died 15 Dec 1872 at age 81 in Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan, USA

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Biography

Sarah Sharpless Talbot was born on 31 January 1791 on her parents' farm near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, USA. She was a daughter in a Pennsylvania Quaker family that became missionaries, settling first in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, around 1774, then in Blount County, eastern Tennessee around 1810. Her parents were Jacob Talbot, 1748-1831; and his wife, Susanna (Sharpless) Talbot, 1750-1831.^[1]

Sarah was a beautiful young woman when she arrived in the wilderness of Eastern Tennessee. She soon paired up with local Quaker Overseer for the Poor Daniel Bonine's 2nd son, Isaac Bonine, about 9 months her senior. They married at the New Hope Monthly Meeting, Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee, on 18 August 1814, when Isaac was 24 and Sarah 23 years old.^[2][3]

Isaac and Sarah's marriage, along with increasing tensions in Eastern Tennessee over the question of slavery, set the stage for the Bonine & Talbot families, joined by several other anti-slavery Quakers, to leave slave-holding Tennessee, migrating north to newly-opened lands beyond the Ohio River where slavery was not practiced. The War of 1812 and battles led by American General William Henry Harrison had subdued hostile Indian tribes in the North-West Territories: Michigan, Illinois & Indiana, around this time. The allied families set out the Autumn of 1814 and arrived in Wayne County, Indiana Territory (it became a state in Nov. 1816) before Sarah gave birth to the couple's first-born daughter, Susannah Bonine, named for her maternal grandmother: Susannah Sharpless, on 30 May 1815. Both the Bonines and the Talbots joined the Quaker Whitewater Monthly Meeting in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana. Over the next 18 years, Isaac & Sarah (Talbot) Bonine had 12 children, all born in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, USA.^{[4] [5]}

1. Susannah, b: 30 May 1815; m: Isaac P. James; d: 13 May 1876
2. James E, b: 9 Sep 1816; m: Sarah A Bogue; d: 18 Feb 1897 in MI
3. Daniel, b: 14 Jan 1818; d: 23 Aug 1819 in Richmond, Wayne, IN
4. Samuel, b: 3 Jan 1820; m (1): Esther Bulla; m (2): Mary Arnold; d: 12 Sep 1895 in Reno, Kansas
5. Evan J., b: 10 Sep 1821; m: Evaline Beall; d: 28 Dec 1892
6. Sarah, b: Sep 20, 1822; d: infant
7. Jacob, b: June 21, 1823; m: Malinda Thomas; d: 25 Jan 1876
8. Lot, b: Jul 18, 1825; m (1): Susan Donnel; m (2): Amanda I Price; d: 14 April 1913 in Cass, Michigan
9. Lydia, b: Jun 14, 1827; m: Nathan Jones; d: 23 Apr 1899 in MI
10. Isaac, "Tuss," b: 12 Oct 1829; m (1): Elizabeth Green; m (2): Ann Stanton; d: 1903 in Michigan
11. Sarah on 30 Sep 1831; m: Franklin Carrier; d: 18 Aug 1875 in MI
12. Jonathan B., b: Nov 10, 1833; d: 20 Oct 1845 in Cass, Michigan

In 1830, for reasons unknown, Isaac Bonine was "Read out of Meeting" by the Whitewater Quaker Society.^[6] He and his family continued to live on their family farm in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, in harmony with their Quaker neighbors, however. During the 1830-45 period it's known that Isaac Bonine & his brothers, who lived & farmed nearby, donated land & helped build the first buildings of what became Earlham College, founded by Indiana Quakers in this period. Indiana land transactions also show that Isaac Bonine bought over 1,000 acres in Wayne County between 1825-1842. He later sold off this land at a profit, investing in grassland prairie land in Cass County, Michigan.^[7] On the 1840 US Census, Isaac Bonine was recorded as married and Head of Household in Wayne County, Indiana, USA. ^[8]

Ten years later, the 1850 US Census recorded Isaac Bonine, 60, b: Pennsylvania, married to Sarah Bonine, 59, b: Virginia. They were living together with 3 children: Jacob Bonine, age 26; Isaac Bonine Jr., age 20; and Sarah Bonine, 18 years old, on their family farm in Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan, USA. They had moved to Michigan in 1842 and it's said that Isaac grew his farm to over 1,000 acres there, making him a large landowner in that rural county. In 1850 his land was valued at $6,000 US dollars, almost $200 thousand, today. His older sister, Susannah (Bonine) James, lived nearby with her family on a farm valued at $4,000.^[9] Isaac was known for his Berkshire Hogs, Blakewell and Merino (wool) sheep.^[10]

By 1870, Isaac Bonine had reached 80 years old, making him the Bonine "patriarch" in Cass County, Michigan, where a dozen Bonine and related households were recorded. He and his wife, Sarah (Talbot) Bonine, 79 years old, were recorded on the 1870 US Census as living with their married daughter, Lydia (Bonine) Jones, 33 years old, her 36-year-old husband, Nathan Jones, & their 5 children, on their farm in Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan. ^[11] Two years later, on 20 September 1872, Isaac Bonine passed away at 82 years, 6 months, and 7 days old. His wife of 58 years, Sarah Sharpless (Talbot) Bonine, followed him to the grave shortly thereafter on 15 December 1872. She was 81 years, 10 months, 14 days old.^[12] The two were buried next to each other at the Prairie Grove Cemetery, Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan, USA.^{[13] [14]}

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogy of the Sharpless family..., by Gilbert Cope et al. Philadelphia: 1887, #670: Sarah Talbot, pp. 415-16.
2. ↑ Sarah Talbot Individual Profile on RootsWeb; cites Blount TN Marriage Records for Marriage Data.
3. ↑ "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN4G-37X : 4 December 2014), Isaac Bonine and Sarah Talbert, 08 Aug 1814; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 15, Blount, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
4. ↑ Indiana in the War of 1812
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #81285955 lists their children's births; information also taken from the Sharpless Genealogy, cited above.
6. ↑ Stated on Find A Grave: Memorial #81285893
7. ↑ "Bonines in America: 1700-1976" - by Kenneth L. Bonine; pg. 6.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR1-PT3 : 15 August 2017), Isaac Bonine, Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States; citing p. 348, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 98; FHL microfilm 7,731.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF88-6Z2 : 29 October 2019), Isaac Bonine, Penn, Cass, Michigan, United States; citing family 1478, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
10. ↑ "Bonines in America: 1700-1976" - by Kenneth L. Bonine, 1976. See: pg. 6.
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHHX-7XN : 12 June 2019), Isaac Bonine in entry for Nathan Jones, 1870.
12. ↑ "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N36C-324 : 10 March 2018), Isaac Sen. Bonine, 29 Sep 1872; citing p 139 rn 152, Penn Twp, Cass, Michigan, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 2,363,451. Both deaths recorded on same page.
13. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 January 2020), memorial page for Isaac Bonine (22 Mar 1790–29 Sep 1872), Find A Grave: Memorial #81285893, citing Prairie Grove Cemetery, Penn, Cass County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by Dennis Peterson (contributor 47428158) .
14. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 31 January 2020), memorial page for Sarah Talbot Bonine (1 Feb 1791–15 Dec 1872), Find A Grave: Memorial #81285955, citing Prairie Grove Cemetery, Penn, Cass County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by Dennis Peterson (contributor 47428158) .

• "Bonines in America 1700-1976" - book on Bonine Genealogy, 1976; a later edition is available at: http://www.aaronbonine.com. If you cannot find it, any Bonine descendant may private message me Chet Bonine Snow and I will e-mail a .pdf copy = October 2017.

• Woodward Genealogy on RootsWeb - Sarah Sharpless Talbot

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Chet Bonine Snow for starting this profile and for updating it, correcting her birth year & adding sources on 31 January 2020, Sarah's birthday. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Chet and others.