The Bonner Family site is designed to give visitors information on eight  generations of Bonners beginning with Coleman Bonner who was born in 1825.  Coleman Bonner is the Great-Great Grandfather of the site administrator,  Matttie Bonner-Tyson.As a young child, I often wondered about my ascestors;  what they might have looked like, where they came from and how they were  treated as slaves. 
   I was raised in a family of nine children in Mason, Tennessee. My  grandfather, Miles Bonner Sr., lived with my family until his death in  February, 1952. Miles Sr.(Papa)use to tell me stories about how his family  worked from sun up until sun down just to keep bread on the table. He told  stories of going to the fields at dawn and returning by lantern light at night.  Mile's wife, Louvinia  Macklin-Bonner, died at a young age leaving Miles with  three young children to raise; Eli(myfather),Mattie(the aunt who I was named  after), and Miles Jr. 
   Papa showed me where some of my ancestors had been buried in unmarked slave  graves on the Baskerville farm. I had always wondered how my family ended up  on the Baskerville farm and now I have the answer. Margie Bonner-Stuckey, my  sister, supplied the answers to many questions when she located a copy  of, "MASON:A Glimpse into the Past",an account of Mason's history compiled by  John Walker Marshall. 
  This book traces the linage of Coleman Bonner, a slave of the Baskerville  Family, to the pesent day Bonner Family of Mason, Tennessee.  After you have visited the site please be kind enough to sign the guest book  include any suggestions, comments, corrections or new information you would  like to see added or changed.
   Members of the fifth generation of Bonners include: Lilton, Floyd Sr.,Eli Jr, Warren(Teesie), Ida Louvinia, Hertha Bonner-Bailey, Margie Bonner-Woods- Stuckey, Mattie Bonner-Tyson, and George Coleman.

Thanks for visting with us,
 Mattie Bonner-Tyson