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Madera County, California GenWeb
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Madera Biographies: BONNER
Cicero Ferguson Bonner Residence
124 North K Street (ca. 1910)
CICERO FERGUSON BONNER was born December 22, 1850 to Redding
Bonner, Jr. and Elizabeth Rutledge Bonner. He was reared on a
large farm in the Viola Valley of Warren County, Tennessee.
In 1886, Cicero went west by train and settled in Madera County, California. There he had a fruit and nut ranch and started a packing plant for dried fruit. Cicero was first married to Laura Reagan, also of Tennessee. Sometime after the death of Laura, Cicero met and married Susie Jane Argo of Tennessee. They lived in Pasadena and by 1920 moved back to Madera where they bought a ranch and raised their only daughter, Mary Redding Bonner. Eventually the family moved back to Tennessee where Cicero Ferguson Bonner died in 1935 at the age of eighty-five. A first impression of Madera County by a Tennessean: "The appearance of the country in general was
not what I had expected to see. The through train does not stop at Borden,
so I had to go to the next town to get off which is Madera.
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Last update: September 11, 2000
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