Bonnell family.

Edwin Bonnell (1848-1893) arrived in White Oaks, New Mexico in 1880, coming from Larned, Kansas with his four young sons Erva, 8, Harvey, 6, Bert, 4, and Nelson, 2. Bonnell's wife had died in Kansas in 1878. He began business activities in lumber, mercantile, mining and real estate during the boom years of White Oaks in the 1880s and 1890s. Bonnell remarried in 1884 and fathered four more children. He died in 1893 at the age of 45 and is buried in the Cedarville Cemetery.

In 1892, Bert and Nelson Bonnell were sent to Pomona, Kansas to live with relatives and finish school. They returned to Lincoln County and worked on ranches south of White Oaks and in the Hondo and Ruidoso valleys. In 1899 they began working for rancher and farmer Frank Coe at Glencoe in the Ruidoso Valley. The two brothers married Sydney and Agnes Coe, daughters of Frank Coe.

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