An undated portrait photograph of Jonas Bonawitz (1820-1903). He was the son of George Bonawitz, who moved to Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in an area north of Berrysburg about 1801.
Jonas married Catherine Lenker (1827-1887) and with her had at least three known children.
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George Bonawitz was a brother to my grandmother Frances Bonawitz Walter. Frances’ father-in-law, Wilhelm Walter, was a German immigrant who settled in Berrysburg. He was a slate-roofer, built a house in Berrysburg with Blue slate siding and a slate roof, and put slate roofs on many buildings between Berrysburg and Elizabethville.