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Bonney and Runion Photos and Documents

Twentieth Century Photographs
Just a small number of photographs so far, described in the .txt file, at right. BonneyPhotos.txt BonneyPhotos.zip
The .zip file is just under 1 megabyte in size.

Nineteenth Century Photographs
Reputedly using his father's name as an alias, Henry McCarty may be one of our more infamous relatives.
The true genealogy of "William H. Bonney", better known as Billy the Kid, will no doubt remain a mystery, barring DNA tests from the grave. (A relative recently told me that they're working on that right now.)

This biography of Billy the Kid appeared in People's Almanac #2, by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, New York, Bantam Books, 1978.

Internet Sources
Two good Bonney family message boards:
1) the ancestry.com/rootsweb board, and
2) the community at genealogy.com.
Our Bonneys had been in Maine from at least 1815 until the post WWII era. Family members traced us back to Isaiah Bonney (1815-1882) of Otisfield, Maine, and he is the topic of a number of threads in the boards above. Illinois Regional Archives Depository sent me a copy of the marriage certificate for Joseph and Malinda Yeager in less than a week. Their Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900 has more than a million marriages.
Civil war diary of ggrandfather Lucius Chandler Runion, who marched with Sherman to the sea and in honor of his fallen comrades never cut his beard again.

*Twentieth Century Photographs* Just a small number of photographs so far, described in the .txt file, at right.	BonneyPhotos.txt BonneyPhotos.zip The .zip file is just under 1 megabyte in size.
*Nineteenth Century Photographs* Reputedly using his father's name as an alias, Henry McCarty may be one of our more infamous relatives. The true genealogy of "William H. Bonney", better known as Billy the Kid, will no doubt remain a mystery, barring DNA tests from the grave. (A relative recently told me that they're working on that right now.)	This biography of Billy the Kid appeared in People's Almanac #2, by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, New York, Bantam Books, 1978.
*Internet Sources* Two good Bonney family message boards: 1) the ancestry.com/rootsweb board, and 2) the community at genealogy.com. Our Bonneys had been in Maine from at least 1815 until the post WWII era. Family members traced us back to Isaiah Bonney (1815-1882) of Otisfield, Maine, and he is the topic of a number of threads in the boards above.	Illinois Regional Archives Depository sent me a copy of the marriage certificate for Joseph and Malinda Yeager in less than a week. Their Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900 has more than a million marriages. Civil war diary of ggrandfather Lucius Chandler Runion, who marched with Sherman to the sea and in honor of his fallen comrades never cut his beard again.

Other Notes
Study of the Runion family posed a challenge. As I saw it, there were a finite number of ways that a bureaucrat could spell it: Runion, Runyon, Runien, Runyen, Runian, Runyan, and maybe Runnien or Runnyen. Of course, handwriting and transcription errors are harder to predict.
My family knew quite a bit about Lucius Chandler Runion (b. 1839, Norfolk Twp, St Lawr Co, NY; d. 1923, Iowa), but I had no data on his parents. Searching the 1840 census index for Norfolk Twp turned up nothing.

I browsed the original census images for Norfolk Twp in ancestry.com, and discovered "George Rumen", quite possibly the person I was searching. Must have been a hard day for the census taker. The ages are right, and he is listed only two households away from who appears to be Levi S. Chandler. I have since learned that the household listed two doors away in the other direction from Mr. "Rumen" -- Lynde Sargent -- is probably Lucius' grandfather.

Motto: There's no substitute for an original document ... but having another
genealogy buff in the family is even better!

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*Other Notes* Study of the Runion family posed a challenge. As I saw it, there were a finite number of ways that a bureaucrat could spell it: Runion, Runyon, Runien, Runyen, Runian, Runyan, and maybe Runnien or Runnyen. Of course, handwriting and transcription errors are harder to predict. My family knew quite a bit about Lucius Chandler Runion (b. 1839, Norfolk Twp, St Lawr Co, NY; d. 1923, Iowa), but I had no data on his parents. Searching the 1840 census index for Norfolk Twp turned up nothing.	I browsed the original census images for Norfolk Twp in ancestry.com, and discovered "George Rumen", quite possibly the person I was searching. Must have been a hard day for the census taker. The ages are right, and he is listed only two households away from who appears to be Levi S. Chandler. I have since learned that the household listed two doors away in the other direction from Mr. "Rumen" -- Lynde Sargent -- is probably Lucius' grandfather.
Motto: There's no substitute for an original document ... but having another genealogy buff in the family is even better!

Bonney and Runion Photos and Documents