Lucas County is in south central Iowa. It was founded in 1846 and the county seat is Chariton.
Nebraska was not settled by many European-Americans until 1848. In the 1860s, the government took Native American land and opened it for homesteaders. Nebraska became the 37th state on March 1, 1867,
A prairie is a temperant, level region with grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees. Most of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma are prairie.
Bonham Fox was
born on April 30, 1868 in Benton Township, Lucas County, Iowa. He
was the son of John Newton Fox and Sarah Jane Ricketts. His name was pronounced
Bow-mee by the family. It has
been spelled as Bonaparte, Bornie, Bonum, Bowman Boehme, Bomy and Barney
Fox. He was a
farmer.
He married
Eliza Jane White about 1890. Eliza Jane was born on March 5,
1876. She was the daughter of Paris M. White and Mary Elizabeth Breckenridge. She was also Walter White's
sister. Walter White married Grace Smith.
Bomy and Eliza's
oldest nine children were born in Iowa and the youngest two in Nebraska.
Ira Dell Fox was born July 28, 1891. She died at birth.
Iva Belle Fox Foreman was born July 28, 1891. She married Jeremiah E. Foreman.
Mary Dessie Fox Jordan was born
September 10, 1892. She married James Earnest Jordan.
Roy Orville Fox was born February 3, 1894.
Lester
Willard Fox was born July 1895.
Lura May Fox was born September 25,
1897.
Ethel Dean Fox was born January 14 1901. she married Roy Rye Davis.
Lola Irene Fox
was born October 31, 1903.
Luther Irian Fox was born October 31
1903.
Mabel Gertrude Fox was born July 16, 1906.
Greta Marie
Fox Morris was born on September 9, 1908.
The family
had moved to Rogers County, Oklahoma by the time of the 1910
census and remained there during the 1920 and 1930 censuses.
Eliza
died on April 30, 1944 and Bonham died on January 31, 1950 in Rogers County,
Oklahoma. They are buried there together at Woodlawn Cemetery.
The Great Depression was world wide and originated in the U.S. with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929. Income, revenue, profits, prices, and trade plunged.. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 25%. The negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the end of World War II.
In the 1830s settlers began arriving inIowa from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Kentucky, and Virginia. Iowa became a state in 1846.
