Person Sheet

Name Bonabell DE SHAW Occupation Clerk451 Birth Date Jun 1886459 Birth Place NY US Death Date 1940444 Death Place St. Maries, Benewah Co. ID US Father Avon DE SHAW (1862-1895) Mother Nettie UNKNOWN (ca1863-?)
Spouses
1 Floyd Wellington McKAGUE Alias/AKA Floyd WELLINGTON444 Birth Date 1884 Birth Place NE US Birth Memo see Research Notes Death Date 1910385 Death Memo infection from extracted tooth Burial Place Spokane, Spokane Co. WA US440 Occupation Paperhanger (1902), Tinner (1904-05), Carpenter (1906)449,450,451,458 Father Joseph H. McKAGUE (1847-1926) Mother Mary Victoria HUNTINGTON (1837-1931)
Marriage Date bef 1905451 Marriage Place US
Children Bernice Lametta (1905-ca1923) Unknown (Died as Child) (1906-ca1906) Avon Floyd Wellington (1907-1996) Prudence Jane (1910-1999)
2 Ray BOSTWICK Birth Date ? Death Date ?
3 John FOSTER Alias/AKA Jack444 Birth Date ? Death Date ?
Notes for Bonabell DE SHAW
According to Tom McKAGUE, after Floyd's death, Bonnabell didn't feel she could support three children, and was going to put Evelyn and Avon into an orphanage. Joe McKAGUE (Floyd's father) came to Spokane and took Evelyn and Avon to live with him on the farm in Walnut Grove.444 Brian McKAGUE says Joe took Avon when Floyd died, and came back for Evelyn when he learned Bonnabell was putting her up for adoption.385
Research Notes
NAME: Her first name is also given as Bonnebell271 and Bonibel.460 BIRTH: Her birthplace is given in Evelyn McKague's address book as N.G. [?]467 She was "most likely born in New York. I didn't find a birth certificate in Minneapolis for her. Her father's death certificate said he was in the state 8 years and Bonnabel was 9 when he died. Also I found Lametta's birth certificate and it says mother Bonnabel DeShaw was born in New York.".242 She is shown in the 1895 census as 9, born in Minnesota.242 Her year of birth is given as 1888.385 She is shown in the 1905 census as 18, in Minnesota for 16 years, 6 months.460 MARRIAGE: Bonnabell may have had more marriages. At the time of her son Avon's marriage,242 and at the time of her death she was married to Jack Foster.444 DEATH: Her date of death is confirmed with no place given.385