Dear Mike,

Thanks for answering my inquiry about Walter Emerson Bonney and Malinda Fish. After other research, I'm thinking that this is not the line I am from. My Bonney's lived in Glidden, WI. My mother's mother was Norma Elizabeth Bonney, born in Glidden about 1884. She was the youngest of 25 children. Her father had 12 children from his first wife, then I understand he married a Chippewa indian girl and they had 13 children. I have been unsuccessful in finding any relatives in this line.

My grandmother told me all of her siblings lived to adulthood with only two not getting married. One was an albino and the other whose name was Abraham Bonney died at age 40 weighing about 640 pounds. He lived and worked in Glidden but he had no children.

My grandmother ran off with my grandfather who had a dance band and was playing in Glidden. She was 13 and 1/2 years old and my mother was her first child born when granny was 14 and 1/2. Granny had 11 more children but they were all stillborn or died within two months of birth. Granny moved from Wisconsin to Michigan then migrated west to Idaho and later Everett, Washington where she died in 1951.

My mother had six sons of which I am the youngest. All my brothers have passed on and I am the only "senior" family member left. I am 70 years old but in very good health. I hope to be around long enough to find some of those Bonneys.

I have also been working on my father's line and am quite successful in that. All the way to 1617 in Norway. That is taking up most of my time right now.

Again, thank you for your interest. Carl Johnson