U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonafield, Guy Martin (1874-1937) --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Pages 757-758, GUY M. BONAFIELD. The Bonafields of West Virginia came originally from Maryland. Samuel, the ancestor, was born where the city of Washington now stands. His son Samuel came to St. George, Tucker county, in 1837, and his son T. J. located near the Tunnelton Camp Ground. His grandson, Arnold Jacob Bonafield, born June 12, 1849, became a very successful merchant, doing a business at one time in this place of $100,000 annually. He was also a coal dealer and for many years president of the bank. He was a very successful business man, leaving a valuable estate of which Guy M. Bonafield, his son, is trustee. Arnold J. Bonafield married Elizabeth Virginia Robinson, born December 6, 1851, in Fairmont, Marion county, W. Va. Her grandmother was a Pierpont. She married Reuben Baker. The Bakers moved to Monongalia county from Philadelphia. Their children were: (1) Guy Martin Bonafield, who was born March 18, 1874; (2) Hugh William, born January 19, 1876; (3) Carl Thornton, February 28, 1878; (4) Henry Arnold, April 22, 1880; (5) Ethelynd Virginia, December 1, 1882; (6) Stewart Robinson, August 17, 1890. Guy Martin Bonafield, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the Fairmont Normal School and Wesleyan College at Buckhannon, after which he became bookkeeper until his father's death, then trustee of his father's estate since that time. He is also one of the trustees of the M. E. Church at Tunnelton. On June 26, 1898, Mr. Bonafield was married to Miss Alberta Charity Bolyard, a Prestonian born near Tunnelton. Her father, Henry Bolyard, was raised a farmer near Fellowsville and is a veteran of the Civil War. He is a descendant of Henry, a brother of Stephen Bolyard, who came from Pennsylvania about 1799, and lived first on the Ford place at the mouth of Wolfe Creek, and a few years later on the top of Laurel Hill, south of the turnpike line and near the "Drovers Rest." Henry Bolyard married Nancy Eve Sigley, of Harrison county, W. Va. They had eight children: Emma C., Delbert M., Cora A., Minnie A., Alberta C., Lloyd W., John C., and Lessie M. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Guy M. Bonafield are: Daisy Louise, born April 4, 1899; Elizabeth Adelaide, January 8, 1902; Arnold Jacob, February 10, 1904; and James Henry Bonafield, who was born September 1, 1911. The family are members of the M. E. Church. --------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Preston County, WV #2785 FULL-NAME: Guy Martin Bonafield BIRTH-DATE: March 18, 1874 BIRTH-PLACE: Tunnelton, Preston County, W.Va. DEATH-DATE: February 20, 1937 DEATH-PLACE: at home, High St., Kingwood, Preston County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married (Alberta Bonafield) OCCUPATION: Insurance Agent FATHER: Arnold J. Bonafield (born in W.Va) MOTHER: Elizabeth Robinson (born in Fairmont, W.Va) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Carcinoma of Prostate INFORMANT: Mrs. D. B. Murdock (of Kingwood, W.Va.) BURIAL: Kingwood Cemetery --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------