Finally! 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 seven: most of the narrative takes place in Ohio, as our family grows, changes, evolves, and adapts through the 20th century and moves into the 21st. Thanks for paying attention and riding along with us.
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 move on to newly-invented fountain pens (the joy!) and typewriters (sheer ecstasy!).
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 We don’t intend to rob them of their dignity, but finally, we are observing that many historical documents are now printed, or even written out on a typewriter.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 whose home he resided in. (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 a “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 someone their own age “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 well on their website.
What causes stammering?
The National Health Service of the United Kingdom
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.
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 knitted together something 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 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 her newborn son “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, 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. (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’s 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)
Individuals in the picture include Belle Sherman and Judge Florence E. Allen.
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 and 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 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”.
Starting with the back left and working clockwise: Robert Earl, John Allen (aka Al),
Dean Phillip, and Edward Lee. (Family photograph).
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
in Redondo Beach, California, November 2001. (Family photograph).
Out of The Great Depression and Into World War II
Our Pop, Dean Phillip Bond, attended Shaw High School in East Cleveland and took a great deal of pride in the fact that the comic actor Bob Hope had also gone there. As teenagers, when we quizzed him about why he left school, he was always a bit hesitant, and there was never a direct answer. In researching this blog, we came across high school class pictures of him which we had never seen before. He appeared in group photos in 1937 and 1938. We thought he had left school in his sophomore year, but these were Junior and Senior year photos. Honestly, we’re not really sure what happened.
Senior B, Room 107. Dean is pictured in the upper right corner.
When he was a young adolescent, Pop was bitten by a mosquito, contracted the yellow fever virus, and got very sick. (A vaccine had yet to be developed, and later came into use in 1938). Unfortunately, the fevers resulted in partial deafness in his left ear.
When World War II came around, he was classified as 4F — not able to serve. This caused him a lot of shame and anxiety. He was determined to serve. He said that he went to a doctor and “got the problem fixed”. We know that he continued to have partial hearing problems throughout his life by the way he sometimes tilted his head to listen. So we are not sure how his medical problem was resolved to the satisfaction of the draft board.
We know that he served honorably in the Pacific Fleet on two destroyer escort ships, the U. S. S. Keith, DE-241 and the U. S. S. Oliver Mitchell DE-417.
Pop had different jobs on these ships, including being a fireman. He was reticent to share stories, but at one point he stated that Japanese planes were attacking his ship. He had to man the gun turret to fight them off, all the while being surrounded by bullets. His friend, next to him, died.
One job came late in the war when when it still seemed that Japan was not going to surrender. His job was to drive this flat-style of boat on to the beach, the sides would go down, and everyone would scramble to shore. I didn’t understand this role until I saw the opening scenes to the movie, Saving Private Ryan. The army and navy were training troops for an invasion of Japan. Fate intervened, and the atomic bombs were dropped, which brought about the end to the war in the Pacific.
Pop passed through Honolulu in the Hawaiian Territory several times. Once he was able to meet up with his younger brother Edward Lee who was also in the Navy. San Francisco [he called it Frisco] was a big hub for the war effort and he mentioned that he liked to go to The Top of The Mark in the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill. (12)
A bottle of whiskey sits on the bar at the Top of Mark
Top of The Mark history, at the Mark Hopkins Hotel
in San Francisco. During WWII, servicemen would buy
and leave a bottle in the care of the bartender
so that the next soldier from their squadron could enjoy a free drink; the only requirement being whoever had the last sip
would buy the next bottle.
All It Took Was A White Flower
Our parents had a mutual attraction to each other. They talked about Mom being a waitress at the White Horse Inn in Cleveland during WWII. She was wearing a white flower in her hair and that caught his attention. Many years later, I asked her to write me (Thomas) a letter and tell me what that time was like for her. [The complete letter is in the footnotes]. Here is a partial transcription:
Nov. 1, 1981
My Dear Son Tom,
You asked for something and I shall try. The years have rolled away and I no longer feel I am on a threshold with all the tomorrows stretching ahead forever; instead I seem to wake each morning a little surprised and sometimes lay there and try to figure what day it is; a temporary vacuum — it will pass as all things do. Natures way perhaps of saying “get your act together” no one is going to do it for you.
It was June 1945. The guns had stopped in Europe, but they still blazed with fury in the Pacific. There had been three and a half years of furious warfare. My own life had gone through a raging battle. As in all battles there was no victor, only the process of rebuilding.
A sailor was home on leave from the Pacific, our paths crossed. An electrical charge passed between us. We had two weeks of fun, dancing-laughing — just fun. He left. A couple of letters, but both of us had been emotionally burned and very wary.
February 1946 — a knock on my door and there stood a sailor. The guns had stopped in the pacific. The men were coming home.
June 1946. Your father and I were married in front of the fireplace at Grandma’s. Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and a handful of friends. A Happy Wedding.
The ensuing years had many ups and downs. I suppose I had always dreamed of being pampered and adored. It is a little hard to pamper a head strong, independent woman. Your father had always dreamed of having someone look up to him. It is hard to look up to a “Happy Irishman” when necessities are knocking at the door.
But, we have survived. We love our children and our home and we love each other, but probably neither of us will ever let the other really know.
Our Pop was the third son in the family, born at home in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio on August 15, 1919. He died on September 24, 1996 in Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio. Dean Phillip Bond married our mother Marguerite Lulu (Gore) Peterman on June 22, 1946 in Newbury, Geauga County, Ohio. She was born Marguerite Lulu Gore on August 15, 1912, in Russell, Geauga County, Ohio. She died on March 4, 1999, in Burton, Geauga County, Ohio.
Note: This marriage was the second marriage for Marguerite. For the details of her first marriage, please see the blog chapter The Peterman Line — A Narrative.
Together they had six children:
- Jo Ann (Peterman) Bond White, born May 9, 1939, in Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio — died August 6, 2010, Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Married Wayne Ronald White, October 5, 1958 — divorced November 16, 1977 - John Alfred (Peterman) Bond, born 1940
First Marriage: Marjorie Ann (Narusch) Bond, October 28, 1961 — divorced November 29, 1977. Second Marriage: Susanne (Ficht) Bond, July 17, 1987 - Susan Deanna Bond, born 1947
- Daniel Earl Bond, born 1950
Married Betty Jane Roberts, November 21, 1975 - Richard Dean Bond, born December 20, 1952, in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio — died May 15, 2022, in Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio
- Thomas Harley Bond, born 1958
Married Leandro José Oliveira Coutinho, June 26, 2008
of Dean and Marguerite, June 22, 1946. (Family photograph).
Dean Bond adopted both Jo Ann and John Alfred Peterman as his children. Their surnames changed from Peterman to Bond after the adoption was completed.
Dean Phillip Bond at various stages of his life. From left to right: Early 1920s, Early 1930s, Late 1940s, Summer 1979. (13)
Moving Around Until February 1957
Our parents did not have their own home for the first eleven years of their marriage. They spent almost all of their married life living in rural Geauga County, Ohio. The 1950 Federal Census locates them on Music Street, in Newbury township. Our brother John has recounted that he and Pop would climb up to the water cisterns for the house, and scrub them until they were very, very clean… because this was the water source for their home.
While their family continued to grow, they went back and forth between living with the Grandmothers: one time with Grandma Mary Bond in East Cleveland, Ohio and two other times with Grandma Lulu Gore in Newbury township. In 1956, ten years into their marriage, they started to build a home on the corner of the farm property owned by Grandma Lulu. It was an old orchard, filled with “past their prime” apple trees and many briar bushes. All of that was cleared away, they broke land, and commenced to build. They moved in on February 1957. (Susan says it was very exciting!)
Our mother described her 30s as being a period of great satisfaction because she and Dean had achieved much. Owning their own home made them particularly proud, and educating their children gave them great satisfaction. As with many other mid-century families — who had lived through the Great Depression and WWII — they found happiness in the stability and the freedom of choice which they could provide to their children. (14)
The Early Bird Catches the Worm
Pop spent many years working in the insurance industry (similar to his brothers Uncle Bob and Uncle Al.) During the Kennedy and Johnson eras, he worked at Sears Roebuck & Co., selling refrigerators and other large appliances. In those days, Sears was at its peak as a department store. It was fun to go to the Southgate Mall and open the refrigerators, looking at the fake food inside. Later in life, he worked as a machinist at Newbury Industries.
Mom spent some years at home with the kids, but around 1960, she went to work as the manager of the Executive Dining Room for the Lear Seigler Corporation. In 1964, she took a position at Kent State University and became their Manager of Banquet Sales. This was a position which she held until her retirement in 1986, having made many friends within the University. All six children attended/graduated from Kent State University. (15)
They Loved Having a Family
One thing that was very true about our family was that each child was viewed as an individual with their own interests. Our parents worked very hard with our education, sports, 4-H clubs, Boy Scouts… many of the things that other mid-century families did as part of their community involvement. In those days, airline flights were out of reach, so we traveled by car, visiting national parks and camping within the Midwest and the East Coast. Family reunions and birthday parties were never missed. These were busy years.
Various selected family photos —
Starting clockwise with the upper left photo: June 1980, Back row – Jo Ann, John, Daniel, and Susan. Front row – Richard, Mom, Thomas, and Pop. Right column top: Spring 1954, Left to right – John, Susan, Pop holding Richard, Jo Ann, Daniel. Middle – Pop at The Grill, circa 1950. Bottom – Summer 1962, Left to right – Pop, Thomas, Richard, Daniel on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Left corner bottom – Duke and Rasha, circa 1982. Middle left – Easter 1954, Susan, Richard (arms extended), Daniel. (Family photographs). (16)
As the 20th Century Winds Down…
50 years to the day, and at the same location, with some of the same people, Dean and Marguerite celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 22, 1996. Old friends and family members from several generations were present. Pop was in very ill, having had heart problems, as well as recently being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. His mind was still sharp and he reveled in having achieved this moment. Three months later he died.
Mom, however, was another story. We had been noticing for years that her memory was slipping… slipping some more… then, slipping much more. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and had been living in assisted care after breaking her hip. It was both interesting and sad to watch how she changed over the years. It was like her life was a movie that had started to run backwards. She was good at “acting” like she knew you, but eventually she would slip up. What was weird was how this consciousness came and went… almost like the way a turtle peaks its head from the ocean waves and peers around. She could be in the present for a moment, and then she was gone somewhere into the depths of the past. She died in March 1999, of uterine cancer, but the Alzheimers had taken her away long before.
Our parents lived their lives completely bound by the arc of the 20th century. In many ways, their experiences were similar to others in their generation, but to us — they were quite simply, and uniquely, our parents. (17)
Now We Step Aside to Present the First James Bond 007
Television was a new and exciting invention in the 1950s. Throughout our history of The Bond Line, we have inserted cheeky asides featuring famous actors who have played 007. Quoting directly from the online article: James Bond (Barry Nelson)…
“James ‘Jimmy’ Bond appeared in the Climax episode ‘Casino Royale’, a television adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first novel which aired in 1954. Though this is regarded as the first onscreen appearance of the character James Bond, the character is an American agent with ‘Combined Intelligence’. He was portrayed by American actor Barry Nelson. (18)
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
These documents were sourced through the Jefferson County 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) — ten 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.
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
Out of The Great Depression and Into World War II
(12) — six records
D Bond
in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/965258197:1265?tid=&pid=&queryId=35c3e6469233fb2b21ec490adae5be9d&_phsrc=EOk2&_phstart=successSource
Digital page: 48/152
Yellow fever vaccine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever_vaccine
Dean Phillip Bond
in the U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Ohio > Berik-Brahler > Bonaminio, Alberto-Bonhaus, Harry
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/199603501:2238?tid=&pid=&queryId=70197222adcf3145aa083a838456f92b&_phsrc=tZI1&_phstart=successSource
Digital page: 528/2227
Dean P Bond
in the U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949 U. S. S. Keith, DE-241
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/33825260:1143?tid=&pid=&queryId=b48ef695b271f4a936a3559886032a8c&_phsrc=vFr2&_phstart=successSource
Book page: 2, Digital page: 67/98
Dean P Bond
in the U.S., World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949 U. S. S. Oliver Mitchell DE-417
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/45422270:1143?tid=&pid=&queryId=b48ef695b271f4a936a3559886032a8c&_phsrc=vFr5&_phstart=successSource
Digital page: 15/46
The Orange County Register
Article: We’ll meet again at the “Top of the Mark”
https://www.ocregister.com/2009/05/22/well-meet-again-at-the-top-of-the-mark/
Note: These photos were taken on a trip to San Francisco, California in December 2022. The bottle on the right is from the present day, but the brand is known as Woodford Reserve Bourbon, which is a brand I created in the 1990s for the Brown-Forman Company. (Thomas)
All It Took Was A White Flower
(13) — nineteen records
November 1, 1981, personal letter from Marguerite Bond to her son,
Thomas Harley Bond
Note: Our Mother went to secretarial school for a brief time when she was a young, woman and she always claimed that learning “shorthand” ruined her writing. We could not disagree.
Here is a full transcription of the letter:
Nov. 1, 1981
My Dear Son Tom,
You asked for something and I shall try. The years have rolled away and I no longer feel I am on a threshold with all the tomorrows stretching ahead forever; instead I seem to wake each morning a little surprised and sometimes lay there and try to figure what day it is; a temporary vacuum — it will pass as all things do. Natures way perhaps of saying “get your act together” no one is going to do it for you.
It was June 1945. The guns had stopped in Europe, but they still blazed with fury in the Pacific. There had been three and a half years of furious warfare. My own life had gone through a raging battle. As in all battles there was no victor, only the process of rebuilding.
A sailor was home on leave from the Pacific, our paths crossed. An electrical charge passed between us. We had two weeks of fun, dancing-laughing — just fun. He left. A couple of letters, but both of us had been emotionally burned and very wary.
February 1946 — a knock on my door and there stood a sailor. The guns had stopped in the pacific. The men were coming home.
June 1946. Your father and I were married in front of the fireplace at Grandma’s. Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and a handful of friends. A Happy Wedding.
The ensuing years had many ups and downs. I suppose I had always dreamed of being pampered and adored. It is a little hard to pamper a head strong, independent woman. Your father had always dreamed of having someone look up to him. It is hard to look up to a “Happy Irishman” when necessities are knocking at the door.
But, we have survived. We love our children and our home and we love each other, but probably neither of us will ever let the other really know.
I feel a deep fulfillment in life. Gad gave me what I asked for. It wasn’t easy but no one ever said achieving was easy. Our home was always open to all, I can hear the footsteps, hear the laughter and the tears. See the dreams of each of our children building, some shattering, but it is always home. I know each of you have the tools to build your own lives and an inner strength to withstand the storms that will beat inevitably [ sic.beat] at your doors. And you have each other. Brothers and Sisters will never be alone.
I am a very private person. It is difficult to — impossible to share my inner being. As I grow older, I realize I am regressing into myself, but that is alright. It must be the way the Lord meant it. As the tomorrows come and go — accept — What I was born for has been achieved. God Bless you always Tom. You are very special. I rejoice in the world I have been permitted to share with you and I know when you have children you too will share, as generation passes into a fresh generation, but Love, the dominating force goes on forever. Mother
Jo Awhite
in the Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2022
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/8822354:5763
Joann White
in the Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/93176060:2026
Richard Dean Bond in the
U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-Current
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/308822264:2190?tid=&pid=&queryId=579906553f7b188b1e8e83b9ab04753a&_phsrc=GgW5&_phstart=successSource
Official Obituary of
Richard Dean Bond
December 20, 1952 – May 15, 2022 (age 69)
https://www.bestfunerals.com/obituary/RichardDean-Bond
Moving Around Until February 1957
(14) — one record
Dean P Bond
in the 1950 United States Federal Census
Ohio > Geauga > Newbury > 28-23
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/208113634:62308
Book page: 32, Digital page: 33/54, Entries 13 through 18.
The Early Bird Catches the Worm
(15) — three records
Marguerite Bond
Photo by Lou Copeland, 1967.
Life Magazine
May 15, 1970
Volume 68, Number 18
https://books.google.com/books?id=mlUEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Note: You can scroll through the entire issue at this link:
Kent State University Seal
https://www.kent.edu/ucm/kent-state-university-seal
Kent State History: Digital Archive, 1970-1979
Kent Student Center Scene
https://omeka.library.kent.edu/special-collections/items/show/237
They Loved Having a Family
(16) These images are from the personal family photograph collections.
As the 20th Century Winds Down…
(17) — nine records
Dean Phillip Bond
in the Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2179488:5763?tid=&pid=&queryId=e11fb18e282f2aff06818f7d7ddc9dc0&_phsrc=Pul4&_phstart=successSource
Marguerite L Bond
in the Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/134310:5763?tid=&pid=&queryId=4404f0d13f01ed1fb0a5e97d79a54ea2&_phsrc=Pul2&_phstart=successSource
Now We Step Aside to Present the First James Bond 007
(18) — three records
Fandom
James Bond 007 Wiki
James Bond (Barry Nelson)
https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond_(Barry_Nelson)
James Bond Museum
Barry Nelson, the first actor to play James Bond onscreen…
https://www.007museum.com/Barry-Nelson.htm
YouTube.com
Climax! Casino Royale (TV-1954) JAMES BOND
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Casino+royale+barry+nelson
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