Can I find a Bonham in the Phone Book?

Growing up in the military we moved around a lot.  One of the first things I did when we arrived in our new town was to look in the phone book to see if there were Bonhams.  It was unusually to find one unless we were in Texas.

I came to believe that there were not a lot of Bonhams out there.  Boy, was I wrong!  It appears that there are tons of Bonhams all across the United States.  There are some in Europe too, but I can't even get my head around that fact.

I grew up think that I was a Yankee.  Turns out that was wrong also.  We come from proud Southerners.  The truth...my ancestors are Southerners.  I am a product of the Mid-West.

 I am trying to get my head around the fact that during the Civil War two brother ancestors fought on the opposite side and never spoke to each other for the rest of their lives.

Romulas Calhoun Bonham

George E Smith

George E Smith is my maternal Grandfather.  I really do not remember him and now I can't find him.

George E Smith

He is, what in the genealogy world is referred to as a "Brick Wall".  I have pieces of information, but I just can't put everything together.  I think that I have a first name for a first wife.  I know the names of his children from his first wife. (Perhaps, the 1940 Census will help)

Margaret Wilson & George Smith

I know some of the places that he lived and where he was born and where he died.  I even know where he was supposedly buried, though the cemetery no longer exists.

I have a couple of photos of him and I have the stories that my Mom tells me about him, though he was gone much of her life.  He was a carpenter and it appears that he traveled and worked were he could find it.  It was during the depression.

George Smith

I hope to find out more about you.  I am persistent.