I too am descended from the Charles Bond family through Jesse Bond. I spoke with Mrs. Gheesling a couple of years ago (probably 1995) and she told me she was no longer interested in researching, but had written up all the information she had at the time so that it would be available to the rest of us. I followed up on the wife of Charles Bond, Sr. (Mary) and found a reference to a Mary Parks married to Charles Bond. (Source: Family Group Record F501119, LDS Family History Library, Record of Charles Bond and Mary Parks, daughter of Thomas Parks). This information was provided by Sharon Marie Lassiter of Provo, Utah, in 1987. She lists the source of this information as "Family record of Bonds, Herrings, and Johnsons, compiled by Ken Johnson of Hickory, NC." I also have the record of the will of Thomas Bond and can't put my hands on it right now. Will get that. It lists Mary Bond as a daughter. Many of the Parks brothers seem to have immigrated to NC, Wilkes County, at about the same time as Mary and Charles Bond. Will post more later. Genie Holt