Caleb Bonsal Sr was born on 26 Jul 1775 in Delaware. He died 21 Apr 1851 in Norfolk, Virginia. Caleb married Sarah Dawley in 1814.
Birth: 26 Jul 1775 Death: 21 Apr 1851
Caleb Bonsal Sr was born in New Castle County, Delaware, on 26 Jul 1775.
Caleb Bonsal Sr moved to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1803.
Caleb Bonsal Sr married Sarah Dawley (1792–1874) in Norfolk, VA, in 1814 when he was 39 years old.
Caleb Bonsal Sr died 21 Apr 1851 in Norfolk, Virginia (aged 75)
Caleb Bonsal Sr was buried 23 Apr 1851 in Cedar Grove Cemetery Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia.
Sarah Dawley Bonsal was born 14 Apr 1792 in Pembroke, Princess Anne, Virginia, and died 28 Jan 1874 in Norfolk, Virginia (aged 81). She is buried Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, VA.
Caleb Bonsal was a young tradesman in Wilmington, Delaware, working in partnership with the later-celebrated Hezekiah Niles in a traditional press and bookstore business when the John Conrad & Co. offered him their store in Norfolk. The new firm of Bonsal, Conrad, & Co. found quick success in that port city, with Bonsal eventually being able to buy out his partners in 1810, by then an arrangement headed by Michael Conrad; he continued as a bookseller and stationer there until his death in 1851. [3]
[1] Bonsal genealogy at usgwarchives
[2] Bonsal burial at findagrave
Note: Cedar Grove Cemetery was established in 1825 on the northern limit of the City of Norfolk, in Norfolk County; ensuing from an ordinance prohibiting further burials within the city limits. The ordinance was a result of a consensus of health officials of the time who believed that disease (including Yellow Fever) was being spread by the miasma of decaying corpses. Prior to this date, one was either buried on ones own property in a family plot or in St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard or one of several potter's fields. Burial Records for Cedar Grove Cemetery are located in the Cemetery Office in Elmwood Cemetery. By Tim Bonney