179Martin VanBuren Bonner lived with Rosa Belle Bright after the death of Eliza Jane and fathered several children with her. She gave them all her maiden name of Bright that she took back after her divorce from her first husband Charles Mace Davis. Some of these Brights are still living and still own the original farm in Red Creek where Martin VanBuren Bonner is buried on top the mountain next to the house.

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184Debbie Pennington Britner - Aug 4, 2008   View | Viewers
Categories: Bonner, Obituaries, Pennington
   
Parsons--Martin V. Bonner, 92, farmer and lifelong resident of Tucker County, died yesterday at his home.
Born July 7, 1863, at Red Creek, he was a son of the late William and Mary (Pennington) Bonner.
Surviving are five sons, C. U. Bonner, Red Creek; Sturley Bonner, Sully; Eston Bonner, Hendricks, and Clifford Bonner, Cleveland; six daughters, Mrs. Mabel Miller, Pine Grove; Mrs. Freddie Bennett, Red Creek; Mrs. Pearl Timmons, St. Albans; Mrs. Thelma Bonner, Burbank, Alaska; Mrs. Goldie Stroble, Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. Stella Feeney, Cumberland; 50 grandchildren and 48 great grandchildren.
He was a member of the Evangelical United Brethren Church of Red Creek.
The body will remain at the Greenlief Funeral Home in Parsons, until services at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Mill Run Church with Rev. G. Bland Brady, Parsons EUB minister, officiating. Interment will be in the family cemetery on Snyder Mountain near Elk.
Cumberland Evening Times--July 15, 1955

179As family story goes, Malissa died in labor and was buried in a pig lot on the Ault farm.

Eliza Jane Bonner, wife of Martin V. Bonner, former county commissioner and prominent citizen of Dry Fork, died at her home at Elk, about noon Thursday, September 15, from cancer, from which dread disease she had been a patient sufferer for several months, having used all means known to medical skill but no avail.
Deceased was a daughter of William and Phoebe (Vanmeter) George and was about 53 years of age when the final summons came.
She was united in marriage to M. V. Bonner in 1898 and to this union were born thirteen children, four of whom have gone on before their mother and nine children survive, together with her husband and the following brothers and sisters: Guy George, of Parsons; Prof. E. F. George of Jenningston; Mrs. Susan Orndoff, of Winchester, Va.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 Friday afternoon at the home, conducted by Rev. J. M. Games of Hendricks, with interment in the family cemetery at Brights Chapel, immediately following.
Randolph County Enterprise, Sept. 22, 1927
1. Eston "Bernie" Bonner b: Aug 1897 in Tucker Co, WV
2. Mabel Bonner b: 3 Mar 1899 in Tucker Co, WV
3. Lucy Bonner b: 8 Feb 1900 in Tucker Co, WV
4. Robert Emmet Bonner b: 27 May 1901 in Tucker County, WV
5. Ernest Frank "Bus" Bonner b: 6 Oct 1904 in Tucker Co, WV
6. Freddie Ellen Bonner b: 19 Jun 1908
7. Edna Pearl Bonner b: 5 Aug 1910
8. Thelma Viola Bonner b: 12 Jun 1912
9. Goldie Evelyn Bonner b: 22 Sep 1913
10. Estella June Bonner b: 15 Jul 1915 in Tucker Co, WV
11. Roger Hal Bonner b: 1917
12. Clifford Bonner b: 27 Feb 1920 in Tucker Co, WV

Note: Martin V. Bonner and Rose Bell Bright were never married but had children together.

Note: lived together aft 1927 never married