Hello, Mary! I was just going to e-mail you about the information in the Commemorative Biographies. I got the disc from Bush Books. I was actually looking for something else, and you should have heard me whooping and hollering when I found the reference to William Evans and Rachel Bonner!!! It validated my information about William and Rachel's children. I am going to transcribe the Ellis Evans bio and send it to you. It claims that Rachel and the grandfather of Robert Bonner were siblings. That means that Rachel was born in Northern Ireland. If that is the case, then there might be a passenger record somewhere. William was about 25 when he came to the U.S., so he must have enlisted as soon as he arrived about 1775. The only military record that I have found is his Militia service is in 1782. He was absent the year that Mary/Polly Evans was born and he paid a fine to Colonel Levis. I cannot find the reference today, but I read that William Evans found Rachel wandering about the border area of Northern Ireland when she was quite young and married her. I cannot confirm this information at all!!! I am going on the assumption that William and Rachel are the ones listed in Montgomery County on the 1790 census. If I can find where they lived, then I'll know where to start digging. I will be checking the probate records in Montgomery County for a will, since Chester, Perry, Centre and Lancaster yielded no results. I believe that William made a warrant claim for some land and improved it in Clearfield County, but never came back. There is a reference to him in the Land Warrant Records and in the History of Clearfield County. I believe that all our info on William Evans agrees to date. Rachel's burial is listed in the original records for the Great Island Presbyterian Churchyard in Lock Haven. The burial ground was "removed" and houses built over it, but many of the graves were left in the ground in the 1800's. If no one from our family had the bodies moved, then they are under row houses in Lock Haven. I have had William added to the records as well, based on your father's research. I'll let you know what else I find. Michele DeParasis ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [PACENTRE] Bonner-Evans > Michelle: > > I saw your name in Roll Call. The Bonners are certainly elusive. > > Did I tell you that I am going to submit William Evans as a supplemental in > the DAR? There wasn't any information on him in their files. Do you have > him dying at Lock Haven and buried at the Old Presbyterian Cemetery west of > Lock Haven Hill near Flemington? > > Mary > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >