what a neat, neat letter!! Leanna ----- Original Message ----- From: "ladybug" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:37 AM Subject: [ILSALINE-L] Wm. R. Bond, Ida & Della > Here is what I have learned re: WILLIAM LEONARD BOND > b. 1-21-1901 Hamilton County > s/o John Edward BOND & Edith M. (Eda) DAVIS Bond > m. Ida Bernice SCHELL 12-13-1924 in Garrison, HCI > div.? when/where - she remarried to WILLEMAN > m. Della (Johnson?) after Dec 1947 - she may have been from the Ozarks. > Bill Bond and wife/wives lived in Wayne County at one time. > d. 5-12-1948 - where? > buried @ Blooming Grove HCI. > > RE: A letter dated 12-17-1947 Wayne City, Il. from Wm. Bond to his sister, Agnes Bond (in possession of her daughter, Beverly in Danville.) > > "Sis, I have a sweetheart down in the Ozark mountain where I may make my home before long. I have been down there four times since July, fishing. HA HA. She lives on banks of current river where the water is as clear as glass. You can see a fish for 50 yards - ......." > "....still clerk in Hardware Store where I been for almost 5 years...I make $41.50 3week; but I just draw $35 as US gets the $6.50 because I am a batchler." ."...your Brother, Wm. L. Bond" > > So, even though he is buried in McLeansboro, I wonder if he did live in the Ozarks and returned for burial? And, he surely was not married for very long? > > Appreciate hearing any input on these surnames. Gail Hahn Hutchcraft [email protected] > > >