Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameSarah Jan Van Meter 
Spouses
Birth4 Jul 1824, Hardy Co., (W) Virginia
Death13 Dec 1890, Mill Run, Tucker Co., West Virginia
BurialMill Run, Tucker Co., West Virginia
OccupationLand Surveyor
FatherWilliam Bonner (1776-1857)
MotherJemima Carr (~1788->1870)
Marriage24 Jun 1880, Grant Co., West Virginia
Notes for Sarah Jan Van Meter
One year after Jane Bright's death in 1879, Solomon remarried to Sarah J. Vanmeter.
Notes for Solomon (Spouse 1)
Solomon Bonner. Born on 4 Jul 1823 (or 1824) in Hardy Co., WV. Solomon died in Randolph Co., WV on 13 Dec 1890; he was 67.
264Source: History of Tucker County, Maxwell
p. 364 brief biography
Solomon Boner, was born in Grant County, July 4, 1824, and was a son of William Boner, of German and Irish descent. In 1846 he married Jane, daughter of Thomas Bright, of Randolph county. His wife died in 1878, and the next year he married Sarah J. Vanmeter. Children: Seymour, Rebecca, Archibald, Mary, James, Martha, Ann Jemima, Virginia M., Sulpitius Gl, and Solomon P. He is a farmer and civil engineer, living on Dry Fork, 30 miles from St. George, where he owns 500 acres of land, one-fifth improved. He was a county surveyor 18 years and was the principal man in locating all the roads above Black Fork. The main Dry Fork road was commenced in 1863 and has just been completed. The first settlers on Dry Fork were William Bonner (Grandfather of Solomon Bonner), Rudolph Shobe, Daniel Poffinbarger, John Carr, Thomas White, Ebenezer Flanagan, John Wolford. Henry Fansler was the first man to move his family into Canaan. He made a small improvement, and left. This was about the commencement of the present century; but the exact date cannot be determined. Some think it to have been as long ago as 1780. There is current a story that the first settler of Dry Fork went there during the Revolutionary War, to escape service in the army. But this is not sufficiently well authenticated to be accepted as history. However, it is certain that Dry Fork was settled at a very early day. Solomon Boner assisted in running the line between Tucker and Randolph. He has been a great hunter, and has killed, as he estimates, 50 bears and 500 deer. He killed a bear on Otter Fork that, when dressed, weighed 250 pounds, and Archibald Boner and James Davis caught one in Abel Long's corn field that weighed, neat, 325 pounds.
One year after Jane Bright's death in 1879, Solomon remarried to Sarah J. Vanmeter. Solomon Bonner was elected surveyor of Tucker County in 1856, 1861 and 1862. He owned six tracts of land in Pendleton, Randolph and Tucker Counties. Solomon is buried at the Bonner-Johnson Cemetery on Flanagan Hill. Marriage month is given as September, not February, in "Randolph County Marriages" by Cochran.
On 18 Feb 1846 when Solomon was 22, he married Jane Bright.
17 Jane Bright. Born in 1824 in Randolph Co., VA. Jane died in Randolph Co., WV on 2 May 1879; she was 55. According to Oscar Doane Lambert in "History of the Bonner and Lambert Families," Jane died while fighting a fire in their home.
In Tucker County in 1875 James B. Lambert married Alice Bonner, daughter of Solomon and Mary (Bright) Bonner. Her father, a native of Harrison County, was a farmer and a practical civil engineer and surveyor, a profession he followed in connection with farming. He died in 1894 at his home in Dry Fork District. His wife died some years earlier. They had the following children: Seymour, a farmer in Tucker County; Archibald, a farmer in the same county; James, who died in 1912, leaving a family of five children; Rebecca and Mary, who married brothers, Washington and Henry Snider; Mrs. James B. Lambert, who was born in 1856; and Margaret, who married W. A. Ault, of Tucker County.
264Source: History of Tucker County, Maxwell
p. 364 brief biography
Solomon Boner, was born in Grant County, July 4, 1824, and was a son of William Boner, of German and Irish descent. In 1846 he married Jane, daughter of Thomas Bright, of Randolph county. His wife died in 1878, and the next year he married Sarah J. Vanmeter. Children: Seymour, Rebecca, Archibald, Mary, James, Martha, Ann Jemima, Virginia M., Sulpitius Gl, and Solomon P. He is a farmer and civil engineer, living on Dry Fork, 30 miles from St. George, where he owns 500 acres of land, one-fifth improved. He was a county surveyor 18 years and was the principal man in locating all the roads above Black Fork. The main Dry Fork road was commenced in 1863 and has just been completed. The first settlers on Dry Fork were William Bonner (Grandfather of Solomon Bonner), Rudolph Shobe, Daniel Poffinbarger, John Carr, Thomas White, Ebenezer Flanagan, John Wolford. Henry Fansler was the first man to move his family into Canaan. He made a small improvement, and left. This was about the commencement of the present century; but the exact date cannot be determined. Some think it to have been as long ago as 1780. There is current a story that the first settler of Dry Fork went there during the Revolutionary War, to escape service in the army. But this is not sufficiently well authenticated to be accepted as history. However, it is certain that Dry Fork was settled at a very early day. Solomon Boner assisted in running the line between Tucker and Randolph. He has been a great hunter, and has killed, as he estimates, 50 bears and 500 deer. He killed a bear on Otter Fork that, when dressed, weighed 250 pounds, and Archibald Boner and James Davis caught one in Abel Long's corn field that weighed, neat, 325 pounds.
One year after Jane Bright's death in 1879, Solomon remarried to Sarah J. Vanmeter. Solomon Bonner was elected surveyor of Tucker County in 1856, 1861 and 1862. He owned six tracts of land in Pendleton, Randolph and Tucker Counties. Solomon is buried at the Bonner-Johnson Cemetery on Flanagan Hill. Marriage month is given as September, not February, in "Randolph County Marriages" by Cochran.
On 18 Feb 1846 when Solomon was 22, he married Jane Bright.
17 Jane Bright. Born in 1824 in Randolph Co., VA. Jane died in Randolph Co., WV on 2 May 1879; she was 55. According to Oscar Doane Lambert in "History of the Bonner and Lambert Families," Jane died while fighting a fire in their home.
In Tucker County in 1875 James B. Lambert married Alice Bonner, daughter of Solomon and Mary (Bright) Bonner. Her father, a native of Harrison County, was a farmer and a practical civil engineer and surveyor, a profession he followed in connection with farming. He died in 1894 at his home in Dry Fork District. His wife died some years earlier. They had the following children: Seymour, a farmer in Tucker County; Archibald, a farmer in the same county; James, who died in 1912, leaving a family of five children; Rebecca and Mary, who married brothers, Washington and Henry Snider; Mrs. James B. Lambert, who was born in 1856; and Margaret, who married W. A. Ault, of Tucker County.