Wayne County Biographies



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Henry Thornburg Bond

Henry Thornburg Bond, eldest son of Robert and Rachel (Thornburg) Bond, was born Feb. 10, 1827, in Clay Township, Wayne Co., Ind. He was educated at the subscription schools, and lived on the home farm till thirty-three years of age. He has always followed farming, and now owns 227 acres of fine farming lands, and his home farm and fine residence shows that he is one of the leading farmers of his township. He was married in September, 1860, to Mary A., daughter of Robert and Narcissa (Stinson) Boyd, who were natives of Kentucky and Tennessee respectively. Her father is deceased, but her mother still lives, in her eighty-fifth year. Mr. Bond and wife have three children, all living at home — Robert B., Emma F. and James E. Mr. Bond is a Republican in politics, and belongs to the Hicksite Friends' church. His wife is a member of the Christian church.

Mr. Bond's paternal great-grandparents were natives of England, and emigrated to North Carolina in an early day. His Great grandfather Commons was born in Ireland, and his Greatgrandmother Commons, whose maiden name was Hayes, was a native of Wales. His grandfather, Jesse Bond, was born, reared and married in North Carolina. He afterward lived in Grayson County, Va., where our subject's father, Robert, was born, and in 1808 settled 160 acres of land near the present Earlham College, residing there till 1813, when he removed to a farm near the present site of Washington, residing there till his death. Robert Bond married Rachel, daughter of Henry and Nancy Thornburg, who came from Tennessee to Wayne County a few years after Mr. Bond's ancestors Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bond reared eight children, four now living — Henry T., John, Abner D. and Lewis T. Emily died in Cass County in 1855, in her twenty-fifth year. Milton died in Wabash County in 1872, in his fortieth year. Lydia E. died in Wayne County in 1879, in her thirty-seventh year. Larkin T. died in Wayne County in 1882, in his thirty-sixth year. Their father died at the age of fifty-eight years, but his widow still survives, aged seventy-six years. He was one of the leading farmers of his day, and at his death left 1,000 acres of fine land in Wayne, Hamilton and Wabash counties in the State of Indiana.

Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2