Hi Carol and John, In addition to Bond and Daily, I also have a Standerfer. Rebecca Trotter, daughter of Robert and Eleanor (Campbell) Trotter married a Job Standerfer. She was born in 1851. My great grandmother Martha Trotter was Rebecca's sister. A couple of notes about Mastin and Tabitha (Ward) Bond. Mastin was the son of John and Susannah (Wade) Bond who were married in Halifax County Virginia in 1780. Mastin was probably born in Virginia, as John is in the 1790 (really 1787) census for Halifax County, and Mastin was born 30 August, 1786. According to the 1850 census, Tabitha was born in South Carolina. The marriage bond in Washington County, Kentucky for Mastin Bond and Tabitha Ward, daughter of Samuel and Susannah Ward, is dated 19 February 1807. Five of their children were born in Washington County, Kentucky, the rest about two miles north of McLeansboro, Illinois, where Mastin and Tabitha lived after moving to Illinois. This area was in White County until 1821 when it became Hamilton County. Now to the Bond/Larkin marriage. It seems to be commonly accepted among Bond researchers that Mastin's widow, Tabitha, married Larkin Mundy, and some even add that several children were born to that union. According to the Hamilton County marriage records, a Miss Tabitha Bond married Larkin Mundy 30 May 1852. There was no age or further identification on the record. Now let's do the math. In the 1850 Hamilton County Census Mastin's widow, Tabitha, was 58 years old. This would mean she was about 15 years old in 1807 when she married Mastin. This would also mean she was 60 years old in 1852 when she supposedly married Larkin Mundy, hardly of an age to have another family. The 1860 Wayne County, Illinois census lists Larkin Mundy and wife "Betha", age 28, plus four children. The newspaper report of the death of Luvica Mundy Cope gives her birth date as 28 October 1859, and her parents as Larkin and "Tobitha" Mundy. In his "Legacy of Kin of Hamilton County, Illinois", Harold Felty cites the 1852 marriage record of Larkin and Tabitha as the source of Luvica's mother's maiden name of Bond. At the time of Luvica's birth, Mastin's widow would have been 67. I guess it is possible that the widow Tabitha Bond did marry a Larkin Mundy, but certainly not the Larkin Mundy who had young children in 1860, and who was the father of Luvica Mundy Cope. If I were to make a guess at the answer to this riddle, It would be that the Tabitha Bond who married Larkin Mundy in 1852 was most likely the daughter of Elisha Bond, son of Mastin and Tabitha, who married Sarah Cross in February of 1832. In the 1840 census of Hamilton County, four females under the age of ten were listed in the household of Elisha Bond. Only two have been accounted for; Lydia, born 29 April 1834, and Delila, born 22 April 1838. It seems highly probable that one of the missing daughters was named for grandma Tabitha, possibly born in 1832/1833. She would have then been 28 in the 1860 census, as was Larkin's wife. Phyllis in Phoenix leotaphyls@aol.com,