Funeral services for Bolivar Bond, 69, farm owner and real estate operator, who died Tuesday, July 21, 1936 at his home in Versailles after a long illness of heart trouble, were held at the residence Thursday afternoon by the Rev. M. P. McClure, pastor of the Epworth Methodist church., Lexington, formerly of Versailles, assisted by the Rev. W. S. Maxwell, pastor of the Versailles Methodist Church. Burial in the Versailles cemetery.
Pallbearers, Joe S. Jesse, William D. Jesse, Dr. S. A. Blackburn, S. L. Woolridge, W. H. Edwards, A. L. Edwards, Walter Garner and Hiram Wilhoit.
Mr. Bond was born in Anderson county, a son of the Rev. Preston Bond and Belinda Arthur Bond. He had been a resident of Woodford county forty-five years and had lived in Versailles since 1909. From 1891 until 1908 he was engaged in the general merchandise business at Nonesuch, Woodford county, which he abandoned to become a real estate agent and auctioneer, a business in which he was extremely successful. He was widely known and very popular in Mercer county.
His firm Bolivar Bond & Sons, operated extensively throughout Central Kentucky and in two years of the land boom, 1918-1919, the firm is said to have made sales of farm lands and city property approximating $12,000,000. Mr. Bond had served as a member of the Versailles Board of Council and he was long a member of the Democratic County Committee of Woodford county. He was also a member of the Methodist church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Helen Dean Bond; two daughters, Mrs. Roy Carruthers, Chicago and Versailles, Jessie Lillard Bond Boulton, Chicago and five sisters, Mrs. Addie B. Searce, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. J. C. VanArsdall, Mrs. Edward Ledridge and Mrs. W. H. Hawkins all of Lawrenceburg, Ky., and Mrs. H. W. Hudson, Franklin county.
(Courtesy of Harrodsburg Herald, Harrodsburg, Mercer Co, KY,
Fri Jul 24, 1936)
Obituary courtesy of bluekybutterflywings.
Thank you Yvonne
Pallbearers, Joe S. Jesse, William D. Jesse, Dr. S. A. Blackburn, S. L. Woolridge, W. H. Edwards, A. L. Edwards, Walter Garner and Hiram Wilhoit.
Mr. Bond was born in Anderson county, a son of the Rev. Preston Bond and Belinda Arthur Bond. He had been a resident of Woodford county forty-five years and had lived in Versailles since 1909. From 1891 until 1908 he was engaged in the general merchandise business at Nonesuch, Woodford county, which he abandoned to become a real estate agent and auctioneer, a business in which he was extremely successful. He was widely known and very popular in Mercer county.
His firm Bolivar Bond & Sons, operated extensively throughout Central Kentucky and in two years of the land boom, 1918-1919, the firm is said to have made sales of farm lands and city property approximating $12,000,000. Mr. Bond had served as a member of the Versailles Board of Council and he was long a member of the Democratic County Committee of Woodford county. He was also a member of the Methodist church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Helen Dean Bond; two daughters, Mrs. Roy Carruthers, Chicago and Versailles, Jessie Lillard Bond Boulton, Chicago and five sisters, Mrs. Addie B. Searce, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. J. C. VanArsdall, Mrs. Edward Ledridge and Mrs. W. H. Hawkins all of Lawrenceburg, Ky., and Mrs. H. W. Hudson, Franklin county.
(Courtesy of Harrodsburg Herald, Harrodsburg, Mercer Co, KY,
Fri Jul 24, 1936)
Obituary courtesy of bluekybutterflywings.
Thank you Yvonne
Funeral services for Bolivar Bond, 69, farm owner and real estate operator, who died Tuesday, July 21, 1936 at his home in Versailles after a long illness of heart trouble, were held at the residence Thursday afternoon by the Rev. M. P. McClure, pastor of the Epworth Methodist church., Lexington, formerly of Versailles, assisted by the Rev. W. S. Maxwell, pastor of the Versailles Methodist Church. Burial in the Versailles cemetery.
Pallbearers, Joe S. Jesse, William D. Jesse, Dr. S. A. Blackburn, S. L. Woolridge, W. H. Edwards, A. L. Edwards, Walter Garner and Hiram Wilhoit.
Mr. Bond was born in Anderson county, a son of the Rev. Preston Bond and Belinda Arthur Bond. He had been a resident of Woodford county forty-five years and had lived in Versailles since 1909. From 1891 until 1908 he was engaged in the general merchandise business at Nonesuch, Woodford county, which he abandoned to become a real estate agent and auctioneer, a business in which he was extremely successful. He was widely known and very popular in Mercer county.
His firm Bolivar Bond & Sons, operated extensively throughout Central Kentucky and in two years of the land boom, 1918-1919, the firm is said to have made sales of farm lands and city property approximating $12,000,000. Mr. Bond had served as a member of the Versailles Board of Council and he was long a member of the Democratic County Committee of Woodford county. He was also a member of the Methodist church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Helen Dean Bond; two daughters, Mrs. Roy Carruthers, Chicago and Versailles, Jessie Lillard Bond Boulton, Chicago and five sisters, Mrs. Addie B. Searce, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. J. C. VanArsdall, Mrs. Edward Ledridge and Mrs. W. H. Hawkins all of Lawrenceburg, Ky., and Mrs. H. W. Hudson, Franklin county.
(Courtesy of Harrodsburg Herald, Harrodsburg, Mercer Co, KY,
Fri Jul 24, 1936)
Obituary courtesy of bluekybutterflywings.
Thank you Yvonne
Pallbearers, Joe S. Jesse, William D. Jesse, Dr. S. A. Blackburn, S. L. Woolridge, W. H. Edwards, A. L. Edwards, Walter Garner and Hiram Wilhoit.
Mr. Bond was born in Anderson county, a son of the Rev. Preston Bond and Belinda Arthur Bond. He had been a resident of Woodford county forty-five years and had lived in Versailles since 1909. From 1891 until 1908 he was engaged in the general merchandise business at Nonesuch, Woodford county, which he abandoned to become a real estate agent and auctioneer, a business in which he was extremely successful. He was widely known and very popular in Mercer county.
His firm Bolivar Bond & Sons, operated extensively throughout Central Kentucky and in two years of the land boom, 1918-1919, the firm is said to have made sales of farm lands and city property approximating $12,000,000. Mr. Bond had served as a member of the Versailles Board of Council and he was long a member of the Democratic County Committee of Woodford county. He was also a member of the Methodist church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Helen Dean Bond; two daughters, Mrs. Roy Carruthers, Chicago and Versailles, Jessie Lillard Bond Boulton, Chicago and five sisters, Mrs. Addie B. Searce, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. J. C. VanArsdall, Mrs. Edward Ledridge and Mrs. W. H. Hawkins all of Lawrenceburg, Ky., and Mrs. H. W. Hudson, Franklin county.
(Courtesy of Harrodsburg Herald, Harrodsburg, Mercer Co, KY,
Fri Jul 24, 1936)
Obituary courtesy of bluekybutterflywings.
Thank you Yvonne
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