William Bonawitz was born in 1820 north of Berrysburg, in Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, He was the son of George Michael Bonawitz (1774-1852) who moved to that area about 1901, and Elizabeth [Matter] Bonawitz (1787-1850).
William Bonawitz moved to Ogle Countyl, Illinois, and later to Marshall County, Iowa, where he died on 5 February 1911.
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