NamePhilip Bonenfant
Birth29 Mar 1894, Michigan, United States of America3,5,4,8
Death26 Nov 1975, Weare, Oceana County, Michigan
BurialNorth Weare Cemetery, Pentwater, Oceana County, Michigan
OccupationPrivate in the U.S. Army in World War I; clerk--1930; stenographer--1936.
Spouses
BirthMay 1881, Blue Rapids, Marshall County, Kansas3,5,8
DeathDetroit, Wayne County, Michigan?
OccupationTelephone operator3
FatherAlfred D. Morse (1852-)
MotherHattie L. Adams (1856-)
Marriage19 Oct 1929, Los Angeles County, California
Divorce10 Sep 1931, Kent County, Michigan
Birthabt 1882, Allendale, Ottawa County, Michigan8
Marriage21 May 1936, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan
Divorce21 Feb 1942, Kent County, Michigan
Notes for Philip Bonenfant
Source: MyHeritage.com—MyHeritage Family Trees: O’Keefe Web Site; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; U.S. Social Security Death Index; Ancestry.com—U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989; Historial Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, and Death Announcements, 1851-2003: Los Angeles TImes; Michigan, Deaths, 1971-1996; and www.findagrave.com.
His parents were John Bonenfant and Caroline Caroveau. However in 1900 the census for Grand Rapids City, Kent County, Michigan reported that he and Joseph Bonenfant who was born in July of 1887 were orphans living in St. John’s Orphan Asylum.
In 1930 he and his wife Edna lived in Oakland, Alameda County, California. In 1935 and 1940 he and his wife Anna lived in Lowell Village, Kent County, Michigan.
He resided in Weare, Oceana County, Michigan and died in Hart, Oceana County.
Notes for Edna Fern (Spouse 1)
Source: MyHeritage.com—MyHeritage Family Trees: O’Keefe Web Site; Ancestry.com—FamilySearch Family Tree; Ohio and Florida, City Directories, 1902-1960; U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989; newspaperarchive.com: Elyria Reporter; and Michigan, Divorce Records, 1897-1952.
In 1900 when she married George Botamer she lived in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio. In 1903 she lived in Elyria. Her name in the city directory was Mrs. Fern E. Botamer. The 1910 census reported that she had had one child and that child was living.
In 1928 she lived with her son Edward in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.
When she was divorced by her husband in 1931, her name was “Edna Fern Morse Botamer Bonenfant.” The 1940 census reported that she was a widow.
Notes for M. Anna (Spouse 2)
Source: Ancestry.com--Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; and Michigan Divorce Records 1897-1952.
She was married once before her marriage to Philip Bonenfant.
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