The Bond Line, A Narrative — Seven

We are within historical shouting distance of people that we have actually known earlier in our lives, and also some we know now in the present. This is Chapter Seven of eight: most of the narrative takes place in Ohio, as our family grows, changes, evolves, and adapts to a new century.

Thank God for Typewriters!

Over the last few years, as we have been working on this project, we have had our struggles with deciphering / interpreting / arguing over / pondering what some past record keepers have been thinking when they take note of things. We have had to interpret Latin, Old English, Middle English, Present Day English, etc., etc. However, nothing competes with the grim torture of having to interpret writing from a quill pen — especially when the person writing(?) seemed to be having a medical emergency. In this narrative, we ecstatically move on to the newly-invented fountain pens and typewriters.

Most of our ancestors could neither read, nor write until more-or-less the last 150 years, so they are not at fault. Many signed their names with an X or could just barely scratch out a signature. We don’t intend to rob them of their dignity, but finally, we are observing that many historical documents are now printed, or even written out on a typewriter. Happy days are here again! (1)

A Succession of Guardians…

When Alexander Norton Bond died in October 1897, and his wife Ruth being previously deceased in 1890… the care of the younger Bond children left everyone in a bit of a quandary. Of the four children, the two older siblings very soon moved away.

The eldest son, Dean Linton Bond moved to Tennessee to become a Preacher. He married Emma Brooks on May 10, 1899. Emma, a young widow, brought her daughter, Bessie Russell, to the marriage. Dean and Emma had no children of their own. He died on December 5, 1933 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The next eldest, daughter Edna, moved when she was 19 to Glenville, a village on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. (As recorded in the 1900 Census). On April 27, 1905, Edna married William C. Wickes, Jr. They had one child, a son named William Alexander Wickes, born July 17, 1908. Edna Jane (Bond) Wickes died November 10, 1964 in Columbus, Ohio. She and her husband are buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.

Alexander Bond had an insurance policy with The Commercial Traveler’s Mutual Accident Association of Utica New York which would have benefited his children with $5000 in the case of his death by an accident. However, he died from the complications of a stroke, so the insurance policy didn’t pay out fully. [Mutual’s view, as they wormed their way out of this, was to state that a stroke is not an accident. This resulted in a lower payout of $2500.] Alexander had died without a Will, so this meant that the family home and all of the possessions had to be sold at auction to create a fund for the children’s welfare and upbringing.

This left the two younger children, Lily and Earl (both minors), in need of a Guardian. In November 1897, the Guardianship of Lily, age 15, and Earl, age 9, was given to Alanson Wilcox, a family friend and preacher in the Disciples of Christ Church, within which their mother Ruth (Linton) Bond had been very active. A mere four months later, it seems Lily had moved to Glenville to be near her sister Edna. She became a boarder in the home of O.C. Pinney [Orestes Caesar — understandably, using initials must have made his life easier] and his wife Grace (Cowdery) Pinney at 33 Livingston Avenue, Glenville, Ohio.

At the same time, the Guardianship for Earl Bond, age 10 (almost 11), was granted to Jared Dunbar. He did not live with Dunbar, but with his mother’s older sister Caroline Litten in Wells township, near Brilliant, Ohio. At that time she was a widow, about 63 years old. Also living in the home was her unmarried daughter Annie Litten. Annie was about 30 years old. On the 1900 Census, Caroline Litten is living in a home located between the homes of her son, the George Litten family, and her daughter, the Emma (Litten) Brindley family. It seems Earl was being raised with his Aunt Caroline’s family. Perhaps he felt somewhat more secure with these relatives around, after what he had been through.

Observation: Our Grandfather Earl certainly lived with a lifelong sense of contained, but confusing, and frequent loss. This must have been quite hard for him as a little boy. His mother Ruth, died tragically in a train accident when he was 2 years old. His father Alexander, suffering with severe injuries from the same accident, died from a stroke when Earl was 9. Then his older siblings were not around, and he had a family friend as his Guardian for just four months. Very soon his sister Lily also left. At almost eleven years old, he had yet another new Guardian, Jared Dunbar.

From the Alexander Bond house sale, funds had been paid out to settle Alexander’s estate and death expenses, to Alanson Wilcox (for Guardianship), and to ‘Uncle’ Jared Dunbar (for Guardianship) and hence, given to Aunt Caroline Litten. She collected quarterly payments for Earl’s care for about 2-1/2 years, but then she died in September 1901. (She was the third caregiver of Earl’s to die: mother, father, aunt). By December 1901, the records show that payments were being made to John Raymond Litten, another son of Caroline Litten. These payments continued until July 1903. During this period we are not sure in whose home he resided. (2)

Life in the O. C. Pinney Home in Glenville, Ohio

At this time in 1903, payments for the Guardianship of Earl were now being made to attorney O. C. Pinney in Glenville, Ohio. This was an interesting development, and raised many… “speculative questions”.

About 1898, Lily had moved into that home as an ingenue boarder while she was attending school. The Pinneys were neighbors to the home where Lily’s older sister, Edna Bond, was boarding. At this time Lily was under the Guardianship of O. C. Pinney. He and his wife Grace liked having ‘daughter’ around the house. O. C. and Grace had four sons: Mark (born 1877 – died 1898), Warren (born 1880), Dean (born 1883), and Wallace (born 1894). Lily was right in the middle of this age group — two sons were older than her; two younger.

In September 1900, Grace Pinney died. By May 1901, Lily’s guardianship under O. C. Pinney ended when she turned eighteen.

Lily is our Great Aunt and we shall keep this in polite society out of respect for her, but still, something seemed to have shifted. On February 27, 1903, at 20 years old, Lily Victoria Bond married O. C. Pinney, who was 31 years older than her. Did Lily marry him out of gratefulness, or perhaps a need for stability? Why did O. C. marry someone who was the age that a daughter of his would likely have been? Did his sons call her Mom? We shall never know answers to these questions, but we remain curious. (3)

Earl Bond Had a Stuttering, or Stammering Problem

A family story has been shared over generations that Grandfather Earl had a stuttering problem that started when he was a young boy. The National Health Service website from the United Kingdom, explains this condition on their website.

What causes stammering?
It is not possible to say for sure why a child starts stammering, but it is not caused by anything the parents have done. Developmental and inherited factors may play a part, along with small differences in how efficiently the speech areas of the brain are working.

The National Health Service of the United Kingdom

It would be quite logical to assume that stuttering and stammering could be triggered by a traumatic event, such as the train wreck he survived when he was a small child. With all of the consequential anxieties produced in the aftermath, his mother’s death, his father’s disability, his being shuttled around as a child… As his descendants, everyone knittedsomething together that made sense, and it took on a life of its own. Truly, we just don’t know what was going on back then. We can only look at the historical records and infer.

Sometime between July 1903 and 1904, Earl is living in Glenville, Ohio with his sister and his new brother-in-law O. C. Pinney. We believe that the Pinneys had enrolled Earl into The New Lyme Institute. In all likelihood, in an attempt to help him with his speech problems and avail him to a better education.

Located in Ashtabula County, Ohio, which is about 60 miles from Glenville in Cuyahoga County, the New Lyme Institute was a school that (it appears) the Pinney boys went to for their educations. Dean Pinney graduated from there in 1902.

In 1904, we see Earl Bond listed as a student in The Cleveland Directory, living with the Pinney family on Livingston Avenue in Glenville. Again in 1906, we find him listed, but now as an apprentice at 813 East 95th Street. It is plausible that the apprenticeship was an outgrowth of his earlier studies. (4)

The Birth of O. C. Jr., and the Death of O. C. Sr.

On February 20, 1905, Lily and O. C. welcomed their son Orestes Caesar Pinney, Jr., into the world. He was likely born at home in Glenville, a place now annexed into Cleveland, Ohio.

President Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was being inaugurated as President of the United States for his second term on March 4, 1905, in Washington, D. C. There were many planned celebrations around the country, with many, many groups traveling to Washington to be present for the inauguration. O. C. Pinney was a military Lieutenant and Quartermaster for the Cleveland Battalion of Engineers. He and his 9 year old son Wallace were on their way to Washington with this military group, but they never arrived.

Near Rochester, Pennsylvania, after they left the Clifton Station, a terrible train accident occurred and people died, or were mortally injured. It was such a destructive and shocking event that the federal government got involved. Wallace Pinney died instantly at the scene. His father O. C. was gravely injured and was transported to the hospital at Rochester. Eventually he returned to Cleveland, Ohio, where he died at home three weeks after the accident.

Our Great Aunt Lily had lost her husband, (in a similar manner to how her mother had died). She must have grieved greatly. Not only was her husband dead but her stepson Wallace was also gone. The other two stepsons Warren and Dean were in their 20s. Lily was now raising her newborn son, O. C. Jr., in her home with her brother Earl Bond. (Lily called him “Ralph” in future documents. Maybe it was a nickname she gave him because it was too heartbreaking to call him O. C.)?

Her brother Earl’s welfare still needed to be looked after. The accident happened near the time of his 17th birthday and for him, this was his fourth caregiver to pass away. Stability was once again… elusive.

O. C. had been an attorney, and his brother Jay Pinney, who was also an attorney, came to be called “Uncle Jay” by Lily. He must have stepped in at certain times to help with family matters. The settling of O. C. Pinney’s estate was a complicated issue with many interested parties involved. We learned that Lily Pinney and her family were living at 813 East 95th Street N. E. Glenville/Cleveland, Ohio by 1906. This is the same address that Earl reported as the address for his apprenticeship.

In 1912, seven years after the Clifton Accident, our Grandfather Earl received a postcard in the mail from Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. It is likely that the former President had written this as a gesture of “Remembrance”. (In 1907, he had been President when as our family members were killed while traveling to his second inaugural). (5)

O. C. Jr. Became The Son Of A Preacher Man

On October 6, 1909, Lily (Bond) Pinney married Howard Connelly in Cleveland, Ohio. The year before, he had earned his degree at Yale Divinity School in Hartford, Connecticut. This marriage was a fresh start for her and her son.

As indicated on the 1910 Federal Census, they quickly settled in Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma, where Howard raised O. C. Jr., as his son. It is notable that O. C. Jr., had by 1910, taken on the Connelly name. We have not yet located evidence of an adoption, nor did Lily and Howard have any other children.

By 1917 at the time of Howard’s WWI draft registration card, they were settled in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana.

Earl Bond was living with them in Oklahoma for the 1910 census, and also magically, he is recorded as living with his other sister Edna (Bond) Wickes, in Cleveland, Ohio. So what was going on?

From the United States Census Bureau, article 1910 Overview — “For the first time, enumerators in the large cities distributed questionnaires in advance, a day or two prior to April 15, so that people could become familiar with the questions and have time to prepare their answers. In practice, only a small portion of the population filled out their questionnaires before the enumerator visit, however. The law gave census takers two weeks to complete their work in cities of 5,000 inhabitants or more [such as Cleveland, Ohio] while enumerators in smaller and rural areas [such as Carter County, Oklahoma] were allotted 30 days to complete their task.”

It seems that both of Earl’s sisters were trying to claim him, and there must have been some confusion as to where Earl belonged. At 21 years old, he was old enough to decide where he wanted to be.

Great Aunt Lily died on March 19, 1966 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. (6)

The Last of The Gilded Age in Cleveland, Ohio

In 1873, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner coauthored a book called The Guided Age, A Story of To-Day, the name of which came to define the era. Our Grandfather Earl had been born into what historians refer to as The Gilded Age, but as we have learned, the prosperity of that time was always just beyond him. From Encyclopedia.com:

“The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era in the United States spanned the years from the end of Reconstruction through the 1920s. Many historians overlap the end of the Gilded Age (1870–1900) with the beginning of the Progressive Era (1890–1929). [This] was an age of movement. Populations changed, people moved, and trade increased. Migration to the American west, a dramatic increase in immigration to the United States from foreign shores… the proliferation of railroads, steamers, telegraphs, and the telephone [also occurred].”

The Gilded Age was the era of the corporation, the heyday of the Robber Barons and Captains of Industry. In the era before both corporate taxes, much less personal income taxes, the city of Cleveland had greatly prospered — growing to become the sixth largest city in the United States. John D. Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company, and many other very wealthy people lived on a section of Euclid Avenue, known as Millionaires Row. The images below, through both illustrations and postcards, document the opulence of the district.

“While the Gilded Age brought outstanding prosperity to some, it was also deeply tarnished beneath its gold veneer. The poor became poorer, the tenement slums grew, and new immigrants endured increasing economic and social hardships. Some of the most successful corporate endeavors became monopolies. Consumer prices rose; corruption and industrial labor abuses increased.

The Progressive Era sought to solve many of the social injustices of the Gilded Age. Where the Gilded Age was highly individualistic, progressive reformers thought that governments had a responsibility to promote socially beneficial programs. Progressives who advocated the government regulation of industry, asserted that economic and social policy could not easily be separated.” Looking back, it was foreshadowing the sorrows of the coming Great Depression. (7)

Earl A. Bond Marries Mary Adele McCall

On October 12, 1910, Earl Alexander Bond married Mary Adele McCall. She was born on August 10, 1888 in South Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the third daughter of John and Mary Jane (McMahon) McCall.

Note: For the history of Mary Adele (McCall) Bond’s early life, and her marriage to Earl A. Bond, please see the blog post chapter titled: The McMahon / The McCall Lines, A Narrative.

Mary and Earl had four sons:

• Robert Earl, born October 28, 1911
• John Allen, born March 2, 1914
• Dean Phillip, born August 15, 1919 (We are descended from Dean.)
• Edward Lee, born November 2, 1925
  
  They spent the majority of their marriage in East Cleveland, Ohio except for some specific instances that we know of. Three of their sons were born in East Cleveland, except for John Allen, who was born in Kent, Portage County, Ohio, in 1914. (We have no idea why they were actually living in Kent). There is a family story that they moved to southern Ohio (most likely Brilliant) about 1915, with very young sons Robert Earl and John Allen. Sometime in 1916, Mary had an (undiagnosed) “nervous breakdown” and sons Robert and John were dispatched to the care of their maternal Grandmother Mary Jane McCall-Davin and her daughter, Elizabeth. A story passed down was that Aunt Elizabeth claimed that she knew when Mary and Earl were “having difficulties” because he would stutter.
  
  Observation: We noticed that Earl and Mary had some larger gap years between the births of some of their sons. This seems similar to be a pattern we saw with Earl’s father, Alexander Bond. However, there was a difference — Alexander had been a traveling salesman and Earl was living with Mary at home. Our father’s cousin Roberta (Loebsack) Fumich stated in 2007: “They had a difficult marriage, much of it attributable to Mary.” [The story goes that] “when they would fight, she would throw him out of the house”. We do not know the circumstances of the troubles, or where Earl would live during those times.
  
  By the time of World War I, they were back in the Cleveland area. Earl declared on his 1917-1918 Draft Registration Card that he was responsible for a wife and two children, and he cited a Cleveland address. When Dean was born in 1919, they lived in a house they owned on Alder Ave in East Cleveland, which is documented on the 1920 Census.

Additionally from that census, Earl is supporting his family as a private chauffeur. When his son Robert was born in 1911, the story passed down was that he was working for the Quigley Estate. He must have had a knack for working with automobiles, because by the end of the decade, he is listed as an auto mechanic in the The Cleveland, Ohio City Directory for 1920.

Earl was listed all throughout the 1920s in the Cleveland Business Directory in some association with automobile mechanics. Except for 1920, the addresses all match his home address on Alder Avenue. In the 1929 Cleveland Business Directory, the address 1509 Crawford Road (as shown below), is likely the location for the photograph above. (Note the sign for Bond’s Garage above the door frame), (Family photographs). (8)

The Stock Market Crash of 1929 and The Great Depression

The following excerpt from History.com gives a brief description of the Great Depression suffered by many, including our families. 

“The stock market, centered at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in New York City, was the scene of reckless speculation, where everyone from millionaire tycoons to cooks and janitors poured their savings into stocks. As a result, the stock market underwent rapid expansion, reaching its peak in August 1929.” In October of that year…

“The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its lowest point, some 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failed.”

At first, many people did not understand the significance of the stock market crash and warily went on with their lives. We noted on the 1930 Federal Census, that our uncle Edward Lee had been born in 1925, joining the family at their home on Alder Avenue. Among the census notes was the statement about Earl, “working on own account”.

Unfortunately, like so many other American families, the times they lived in were going to get very hard. (9)

The Sad Death of Earl Alexander Bond

Our Grandfather had lived a life where there was much recurring loss. As a young boy he had experienced the violent death of his mother Ruth, the prolonged ill health of his father, then his father’s death. Additionally, different people who had been his caregivers passed away while he was still young. He had the shame of his stuttering to deal with… his Bond’s Garage business failed sometime in 1931-1932… his marriage to our Grandmother Mary was very problematic, and he frequently was forced out of the house. During one of those episodes, he was living with his sister Edna and her husband Bill Wickes at their home in University Heights, a nearby neighborhood. On February 24, 1932, he went to the garage behind the house and hung himself. Edna and Bill found him the next morning.

His death was devastating for the family. During his life, our father Dean Phillip, had difficulty talking about his father’s death and how it had affected him. Nearing the end of his own life, he shared that his own father had probably been very, very depressed and maybe he felt abandoned. Our mother Marguerite told us that she still harbored bad feelings toward Mary, her mother-in-law, calling her “a strange woman”. She related that when Mary went to the coroner to identity Earl’s body, she took —only our father Dean— along with her. He was a confused and vulnerable 12 year old, who had been certainly shocked at his father’s death. He sat outside while his mother conducted her identification… but Mom always maintained that the episode deeply affected him.

We learned from the 1940 Federal Census that her sons Dean and Edward were living at home. Edward was a student and Dean, age 20, was working. The census indicates he was employed as a truck driver for a carpet & cleaning company. He shared with us that he would give his mother his paycheck to provide for her and his younger brother.

Grandmother Mary never remarried. She raised her sons on her own after Earl’s death. She lived near her mother and sisters on Bluestone Avenue in South Euclid, Ohio. At some point, she moved to Strathmore Avenue in East Cleveland. Mary became a sales clerk at the May Company department store in Downtown Cleveland where she worked for many years. She lived until she was 76 years old, dying on March 12, 1965 at the Fairmount Nursing Home in Newbury, Geauga County, Ohio. Her death was attributed to a cerebral vascular hemorrhage, complicated by congestive heart failure.

A painting that means much to our family, is one that came from Grandmother Mary Bond’s residence to our home — at the end of her life. Her sons were clearing and organizing her home for its eventual sale, when our father Dean acquired this artwork. He related that during the Great Depression, an artist came to their front door and offered to create a painting for our Grandmother, if only she would feed him a good meal. So, she agreed to this kindness, and his painting of Hydrangeas graced her walls for many years. (10)

Our Uncles, Our Aunts, and — Their Families

From things that our father Dean often said, he valued work, and being a working man. Conversely, he wanted his children to have college educations and have more opportunities and choices than he felt he had. Dean did not graduate from high school. In his 70s, he finally admitted that he could have finished high school if he had wanted to.

Uncle Bob and Aunt Lucille
Our Uncle Bob was the oldest son in the family, born at home in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio on October 28, 1911. He died on September 26, 2000 in Cleveland, Ohio. Robert Earle Bond married Flora Lucille Burkhart on December 4, 1939 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. She was born on August 15, 1912, in Moore, Shelby County, Indiana. She died on January 19, 1999, in Cleveland, Ohio.

They had four children:

• Robert Franklin Bond, born December 17, 1940 — died on November 14, 2021
• Rita Ann (Bond) Bobzin, born 1943
• Ruth Mary (Bond) Moorer, born 1947
• Rachel Lucille (Bond) Buck, born 1952

Uncle Al, Aunt Mary, and Aunt Ruth
Our Uncle Al was the second oldest son in the family, born in Kent, Portage County, Ohio on March 2, 1914. He died on August 18, 1990 in Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio. John Allen Bond married Mary Dunkle by 1940 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. She was born Mary Elizabeth Dunkle on June 18, 1917, East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. She died on July 14, 1999, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. They were divorced in the 1960s.

They had four children:

• David A. Bond, born 1940
• Gerald L. ‘Jerry’ Bond, born 1943
• Wayne Bond, born 1950
• Constance (Bond) Evans, born 1955

Uncle Al married his second wife, Ruth Elizabeth (Angle) Shannon in 1969. She was born on March 19, 1913 in Logan, Hocking County, Ohio. She died on August 17, 1998 in Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio.

Uncle Ed and Aunt Beverly
Our Uncle Ed was the youngest son in the family, born at home in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio on November 2, 1925. He died on July 22, 2018 in Orange County, California. Edward Lee Bond married Beverly Black on October 22, 1949 in Lyndhurst, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. She was born Beverlee Ann Black on March 8, 1927, in Lyndhurst, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and died on April 5, 2011 in Garden Grove, Orange County, California. (11)

They had four children:

• Gary Lee Bond, born September 12, 1950 — died July 29, 2008
• William Lee Bond, born June 18, 1953 — died November 24, 1958
• Karen Louise (Bond) Boehle, born 1957
• James Lee Bond, born 1960

A Cultural Phenomenon

We think that now would be the perfect point to look back at what inspired the James Bond 007 cultural phenomenon: author Ian Fleming. “From his youth, Fleming was an avid reader of adventure novels, including the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard, and masters of early spy fiction like  Sapper (the pseudonym of H.C. McNeile). During his World War II service, though he played a significant role in espionage campaigns, Fleming’s work was largely conducted from his desk. Andrew Lycett, author of the biography Ian Fleming, notes, ‘He saw all these secret agents arriving from interesting assignations and he sort of decided that he would have liked to have been more like them.’” (Audible Blog)

So, in honor of our well-named, but fictional secret agent, we present Ian Fleming’s 14 original editions of the Bond books. (12)

As far as we know, there are no secret agents or spies hidden within the ranks of our family. In the next chapter, we journey through the 20th century in the last chapter of our Bond narrative, where you will get to meet the very first actor to ever portray James Bond 007.

Following are the footnotes for the Primary Source Materials,
Notes, and Observations

Thank God for Typewriters!

(1) — one record

Jerry Lewis – The Typewriter (Scene From WhoS Minding The Store).avi
https://youtu.be/EcDQr75GlxI

A Succession of Guardians…

(2) — eighteen records

Dean Linton Bond Rev.
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/150016755/person/272062704216/facts?_phsrc=zns1&_phstart=successSource

Edna Jane Bond
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/16174513/person/430127335188/facts?_phsrc=zns3&_phstart=successSource

Edna Bond
in the 1900 United States Federal Census
Ohio > Cuyahoga > Glenville > District 0216
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4117719_00850?pId=39654164
Book page: 23, Digital page: 46/112, Entries 54 through 59

Case Western Reserve University
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Glenville
https://case.edu/ech/articles/g/glenville

Alex N Bond
in the Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998
Jefferson > Administrators Application and Bond, Vol 6, 1895-1901
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1826489:8801
Book page: 82, Digital page: 190/747

Alex N Bond
in the Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998
Jefferson > Estate Files, Case No 6974-6987, 1897
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/4909809:8801?tid=&pid=&queryId=472cd29125fcf22b505d37c41f25e663&_phsrc=LHQ5&_phstart=successSource
Digital pages: 127-138/544
Note: Click on the image labeled No. 6976 Probate Court to see the full set of documents.

Real Photo Brilliant, Ohio South Main Street Scene Postcard Copy
circa 1890s
https://www.ebay.com/itm/373165332129

The fourteen documents below were sourced through the Jefferson County, Ohio Historical Society in June 2017, by researcher Tammy Hosenfeld.

1897 November, legal documents from Alanson Wilcox, for Guardianship, Bond, and Administration for Lily Bond and Earl Bond

1898 February, Guardian’s Account from Alanson Wilcox listing Alexander Bond insurance information and expenses

1898 February, letters from Alanson Wilcox and O. C. Pinney for the Guardianship of Lily V. Bond

1898 March and May, legal documents for Bond and Guardianship from Jared Dunbar, for Earl A. Bond

1899 January, Legal documents (two portions thereof) regarding Alexander Bond’s home sale from Jared Dunbar.

Note: The page on the right above indicates that the house had “insufficient rental value to justify holding it”. We interpret this to mean that it had fallen into great dilapidation — Alexander being very ill for several years. In the present day, the site of the home has been replaced by a modern highway.

Life in the O. C. Pinney Home in Glenville, Ohio

(3) — five records

1899 January, O. C. Pinney letters for the Guardianship of Lily V. Bond

Orestes C Pinney
in the 1900 United States Federal Census
Ohio > Cuyahoga > Glenville > District 0216
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/39654169:7602?tid=&pid=&queryId=898a06015e7e0d744c84a3792bb38f41&_phsrc=yEi1&_phstart=successSource
Book page: 23, Digital page: 46/112, Entry lines 64 through 70.
Note: Curiously, Lily Bond is listed as their daughter, when she was a boarder.

Carline Litten
in the 1900 United States Federal Census
Ohio > Jefferson > Warren > District 0085
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/45418115:7602
Book page: 13, Digital page: 26/50, Entries 88 through 90.

Alexander N Bond
in the Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/12266141:8801?tid=&pid=&queryId=9e86cab4aaeb31d958e122597dfd06d9&_phsrc=XXj5&_phstart=successSource
Digital pages: 227-233/462
Note 1: Click on the image labeled 17562 to see the full set of documents.
Note 2: These are 1901 documents are for the benefit of O. C. Pinney.

Lilly V Bond
in the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, U.S., Marriage Records and Indexes, 1810-1973
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2397261:1876?tid=&pid=&queryId=76465a2de19628d5bc09664bff11525f&_phsrc=WWw3&_phstart=successSource
Book page: 325, Digital page: 837/1012, 3rd entry.

Earl Bond Had a Stuttering, or Stammering Problem

(4) — six records

NHS United Kingdom
Overview — Stammering
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stammering/

The Star Beacon
The Institute on The Knoll
https://www.starbeacon.com/community/the-institute-on-the-knoll/article_a3c3ee00-0405-5647-aef8-98033e8bdb1e.html

Ohio LINK Finding Aid Repository
New Lyme Institute Class of 1902 Photographs
http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi2679.xml;chunk.id=c01_1C;brand=default
Note: See Box 1 / Folder 4 for the mention of Dean Pinney.

Grand Valley Public Library
Valley Memories
New Lyme Institute in New Lyme, Ohio 1965 photograph
https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll64/id/7025/

Earl A Bond
in the U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995
Ohio > Cleveland > 1904 > Cleveland, Ohio, City Directory, 1904
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/314395842:2469?_phsrc=UAT3&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Earl&gsln=Bond&ml_rpos=1&queryId=99e85be9438d6503583bda2d344bc0b9
Book page: 104, Digital page: 66/983, Right page, right column center.

Earl A Bond
in the U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995
Ohio > Cleveland > 1906 > Cleveland, Ohio, City Directory, 1906
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/313428737:2469?_phsrc=UAT2&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Earl&gsln=Bond&ml_rpos=2&queryId=99e85be9438d6503583bda2d344bc0b9
Book page: 174, Digital page: 84/1225, Left page, right column near top.

The Birth of O. C. Jr., and the Death of O. C. Sr.

(5) — eleven records

Rodman Public Library
The Alliance Review. (Alliance, Ohio)
https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll36/id/44888
Note: 1905-03-07, Page 1 >

Article: “Disastrous Collision at Emsworth, Pa”
The Railroad Gazette, March 10, 1905 issue
https://archive.org/details/sim_railway-age_1905-03-10_38_10/page/198/mode/2up?view=theater
Book page: 199, Digital page 198/213, Right column.

Link for two newspaper obituaries, (visible on the left portion of the page):
LT Orestes C Pinney
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78145837/orestes-c-pinney?_gl=16d9m2y_gaMzk1ODQ5MTE2LjE2Njk2ODIzODM._ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY2OTc1NDkzMi4yLjEuMTY2OTc3ODQzMS45LjAuMA.
Note 1: “Pinney-. The funeral of O. C. Pinney and his son Wallace A. will be held Tuesday, the 28th from his late residence, No. 33 Livingston st., Glenville. 1851 – 1905. Lakeview Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.”
Note 2: The news clipping from the right, titled With Military Honors, is from the Cleveland Plain Dealer – March 29, 1905.

Orestes C. Pinney Connelly
in the U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/128521101:60525?ssrc=pt&tid=150016755&pid=272062823392
Note: This is the record for the birth of O.C. Pinney, Jr.
and
Orestes C. Pinney Connelly
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156044685/orestes-c._pinney-connelly

Orestes C Pinney
in the Ohio, U.S., Select County Death Records,1840-1908
Death Register > 1887-1905
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/191429:62075
Book page: 18, Digital page: 654/723, Entry for March 24.

O C Pinney
in the Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/6011554:8801?tid=&pid=&queryId=685c6a708aaf0342861fa867cfeec6c9&_phsrc=ITT2&_phstart=successSource
Digital pages: 228-297/482
Note: Click on the image labeled Doc. 73 No. 36363 to see the full set of documents.

Paleogreetings Authentic Vintage Postcards
Buffalo New York Buffalo
— September 13, 1909 – Vintage Postcard
https://paleogreetings.com/products/buffalo-new-york-buffalo-september-13-1909-vintage-postcard?variant=41015447847075
Note: The original postcard from Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. is family ephemerma. We used this color image, which matches exactly our postcard, to document the event.

Did you know?
Orestes C. Pinney also held a patent for a submerged water heater:

Orestes C. Pinney of Glenville, Ohio
U.S., Patent and Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1314/images/31082_19027032-15002?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=2522308
Digital page: 67-68/378

O. C. Jr. Became The Son Of A Preacher Man

(6) — nine records

Howard Garfield Connelly
in the U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935
Connecticut > Yale University > 1910
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/5396809:2203
Book page: 375, Digital page: 382/866, Lower right column under 1908.

Howard G Connelly
in the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, U.S., Marriage Records and Indexes, 1810-1973
1901-1925 > Reel 040 Marriage Records 1909 Feb – 1909 Nov
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1354703:1876?tid=&pid=&queryId=70383b25167aa705a78e49bbb04bfef8&_phsrc=lBn4&_phstart=successSource
Book page: 341, Digital page: 845/1004, 3rd entry.

Howard G Connolly
in the 1910 United States Federal Census
Oklahoma > Carter > Ardmore Ward 3 > District 0042
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/22787928:7884
Book page: 4B, Digital page: 8/16, Entries 60 through 63.

Howard Garfield Connelly
in the U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10064082:6482?tid=&pid=&queryId=70383b25167aa705a78e49bbb04bfef8&_phsrc=lBn3&_phstart=successSource
Digital page: 175/306

Howard G Connelly
in the 1920 United States Federal Census
Indiana > Floyd > New Albany Ward 1 > District 0065
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/102278710:6061
Book page: 13A, Digital page: 25/32, Entries 1 through 3.

Edna B Wickes
in the 1910 United States Federal Census
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/135658236:7884?tid=&pid=&queryId=52320b74e69d9ae04dea9e79055ed247&_phsrc=DSW4&_phstart=successSource
Book page: 11A, Digital page: 21/41, Entries 21 through 24.

United States Census Bureau
About the 1910 Decennial Census
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/1910/about-1910.html

Lilly V Bond Pinney Connelly
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/83599118/person/46491706667/facts?_phsrc=gtF1&_phstart=successSource
Newspaper clipping from,
The Terre Haute Tribune, Terre Haute, Indiana – Sun, Mar 20, 1966, Page 10
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-terre-haute-tribune/20367263/

The Last of The Gilded Age in Cleveland, Ohio

(7) — four records

Encyclopedia.com
Introduction To The Gilded Age And The Progressive Era
https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/introduction-gilded-age-and-progressive-era

Only In Ohio
These 11 Nostalgic Photos Of Cleveland’s Millionaires’ Row
Will Have You Longing For The Good Old Days
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/ohio/cleveland/millionaires-row-cleveland/

WRHS, Western Reserve Historical Society
Cleveland in the Gilded Age: A Stroll Down Millionaires’ Row
https://www.wrhs.org/plan-visit/museum-store/cleveland-in-the-gilded-age-a-stroll-down-millionaires-row
and
Cleveland in the Gilded Age: A Stroll Down Millionaires’ Row
by  Dan Ruminski 
https://www.amazon.com/Cleveland-Gilded-Age-Millionaires-Chronicles/dp/160949878X

Earl A. Bond Marries Mary Adele McCall

(8) — five records

Earle A Bond
in the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, U.S., Marriage Records and Indexes, 1810-1973
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/950518:1876
Book page: 327, Digital page: 327/1007, Last entry, page bottom.

Earl Alexander Bond
in the U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Ohio > Cuyahoga County > 02 > Draft Card B
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/18653057:6482
Digital page: 892/1538

Earl A Bond
in the 1920 United States Federal Census
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/33291698:6061
Digital pages: 47 (bottom)- 48/49 (top), Lines 50-54, Entries 50 through 54.

Earl A Bond
in the U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995
Ohio > Cleveland > 1920 > Cleveland, Ohio, City Directory, 1920
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/314969239:2469?_phsrc=bzL1&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Earl&gsln=Bond&ml_rpos=10&queryId=13b5d4ff771f3d672d9ad6ad789317bc
Book page: 191, Digital page: 87/262, Right page, right column, middle.

Earl A Bond
in the U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995
Ohio > Cleveland > 1929 > Cleveland, Ohio, City Directory, 1929
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/311029207:2469?_phsrc=UAT6&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Earl&gsln=Bond&ml_rpos=3&queryId=99e85be9438d6503583bda2d344bc0b9
Book page: 511, Digital page: 260/605, Right page, right column, middle.

The Stock Market Crash of 1929 and The Great Depression

(9) — two records

History.com
Great Depression History
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/great-depression-history

Earl A Bond
in the 1930 United States Federal Census
Ohio > Cuyahoga > East Cleveland > District 0600
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/73247577:6224
Book page: 19A, Digital page: 37/51, Entries 4 through 9.

The Sad Death of Earl Alexander Bond

(10) — five records

Earl A Bond
Death – Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X6Z2-7JR
Digital page: 1492/3600
and
Earl A Bond
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167245973/earl-a-bond?_gl=1*1md6i3*_ga*MTg1MzU5MTM3Ny4xNjcwODA5MzU4*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY3MDgwOTM1OC4xLjEuMTY3MDgxMDU1My4zNi4wLjA.
Notes: “Bond: Earl A., beloved husband of Mary, son of Alexander and Ruth Linton Bond; father of Robert, Allen, Dean and Edward, brother of Mrs. W. C. Wickes, jr., Mrs. H. G. Connelly.”

Mary A Bond
in the 1940 United States Federal Census
Ohio > Cuyahoga > South Euclid > 18-292
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/35949703:2442?tid=&pid=&queryId=a988a08a629c05edbdf56bd12c41128a&_phsrc=xhH3&_phstart=successSource
Book page: 4B, Digital page: 8/57, Entries 66 through 68.

Our Uncles, Our Aunts, and — Their Families

(11) — twelve records

Robert Earle Bond
in the Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/81768:5763?ssrc=pt&tid=162508087&pid=312116476730

August 24, 1998 letter from Robert Bond to Susan Bond —

Flora Lucille Bond
in the Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/114637:5763?tid=&pid=&queryId=f5b65af8cf3e8933d8fa3ec6948d0ceb&_phsrc=iQM1&_phstart=successSource

John Allen Bond
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/150016755/person/272062705110/facts

John Allen Bond
in the Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/4151182:5763?ssrc=pt&tid=150016755&pid=272062705110

Mary Elizabeth Bond
in the Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2022
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/171424:5763?tid=&pid=&queryId=671786755f8587db508182744eec04b3&_phsrc=VYb1&_phstart=successSource

Mary Elizabeth Bond obituary
The Cincinnati Enquirer,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday, July 17, 1999
https://www.newspapers.com/image/102298058/?clipping_id=54975136&article=9a0b7cab-37f8-427e-bc65-bb4f9596faac&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjEwMjI5ODA1OCwiaWF0IjoxNjcxNTg3MTY2LCJleHAiOjE2NzE2NzM1NjZ9.TEvgLm0xjswcx8CjN05NFLkE-Wmp26YPBslqiS_JNfU

Ruth Elizabeth Angle
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/150016755/person/272104261620/facts
and
Ruth Elizabeth Bond
in the U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60525/records/44988159?tid=150016755&pid=272104261620&ssrc=pt

Ruth Shannon
in the Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/739214:2026?ssrc=pt&tid=115906863&pid=232290773349

Edward Lee Bond
in the U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/185835489:60525?tid=&pid=&queryId=0eb5531c7925a9e5d7193e488b5b6f2a&_phsrc=iQM18&_phstart=successSource

Beverlee Ann Bond
in the U.S., Veterans’ Gravesites, ca.1775-2019
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8750/records/8241058

A Cultural Phenomenon

(12) — two records

Audible Blog
What inspired Fleming to become a writer of spy fiction?
by Mysia Haight
https://www.audible.com/blog/article-ian-fleming?srsltid=AfmBOoqWFB1Mkv-TgR35XmLeX6gBZmSmw52SVMN5ds-48DliqpGlXyL1
Note: For the text.

Bonhams
Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Lot 144, Fleming (Ian)
https://www.bonhams.com/auction/30730/lot/144/fleming-ian-complete-set-of-the-14-james-bond-novels-all-first-editions-first-impressions-jonathan-cape-14/
Note 1: A complete set of the 14 James Bond novels,
All First Editions, First Impressions, Jonathan Cape (14)
Note 2: These books sold for £43,520 (including a premium) in 2025. Provenance, James Pickard; Private UK collection.