William Joe Bounds, Sr. married Nannie Mae Rabb on May 8, 1898. William Joe was the son of William Richard Bounds and his second wife, Nancy Catherine Young. Nannie Mae Rabb was the daughter of Joseph Edgar Rabb and Mary Ann McDonald. Both William Joe Bounds and his wife Nannie Mae were killed in a house fire at their home in Ivan, Louisiana. Supposedly from what I was told, it was due to a gas leak or a gas valve on a stove being left open overnight.
Story: During the early 1990's I corresponded several times with Edith Molly (Short) Bounds who was married to William Joseph's son, Guy Bounds. We spoke several times on the phone (I always loved her British accent!) as well as exchanged letters, pictures and lots of Bounds family info. During the course of our correspondences, I had asked her once if she remembered any little things that William Joe Bounds had ever told her about his life. She wrote me back in a letter dated Aug 30, 1993 that she remembered him telling her about going to school when he was small. He said, "Of course, I couldn't go all the time because back then only part of the school year was free. The other part of the year we had to pay to go. So, I could only go the free times as we didn't have the money to pay for the paying time." Molly told me she was not aware of that system until he told her. I had never heard of that either!
In that same letter she recalled how he once told her about how as a child he "carded yarn material for his mother. She would spin it and make their socks." (A pair of cards is used to brush wool or cotton between them into strands to be used for spinning).
In another letter she wrote to me, she told about how William Joe once said that "Going to Shreveport was a three day trip when he was a boy. They would take one day to get there in the wagon and camp on the Bossier side for the night. Next day they went across the river to Shreveport and did all their buying. That night was spent camping in the wagon again and the next day riding."
Molly always had a wealth of information to tell me about my "Ivan Bounds" relatives of old who lived in Ivan in Bossier Parish ~ Kevin Bounds
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The Bossier Banner
November 22, 1962
Fire Victims Rites Friday
Funeral services for a retired Bossier Parish farmer and his wife, who died last Wednesday morning when their home on the Ivan-Cotton Valley road was destoyed by flames, were held at 2 p.m Friday in the Pilgrim's Home Baptist Church.
Burial was in the Rocky Mount Cemetery.
Bossier Parish Deputy Coroner Dr. S.G.Carrington said Joe Bounds, 88,and his wife, Nannie Mae (Rabb) Bounds, 82, died of asphyxiation in the fire, which swept their home about dawn Wednesday.
Josh Bounds, a son of the couple, discovered the blaze when he got up to go to work about 5 a..m. He lives in a house next door to his parents and heard the roar of the flames, When he rushed to the burning house, he found the roof collasped and the dwelling completely enveloped in flames.
Dr. Carrington said one of the bodies was found in the bathroom and the other in a back room of the house. The frame house had burned to the ground when a fire fighting crew from the Cotton Valley Volunteer Fire Department arrived at the scene.
It was the second and third fire fatalities of the year from Bossier Parish.
Mr. & Mrs. Bounds had resided near the Ivan Community since 1914, Bossier Parish Deputy Reese Hardcastle of Plain Dealing said.
The couple is survived by three sons: Josh, who lived next to the couple, Joe Bounds of Sarepta, and Guy Bounds of Kermit, Texas. Three daughters: Mrs. B.H. Alexander of Burkburnett, Texas, Mrs. Red Brewer of Houma, La. and Miss Edna Bounds of Cotton Valley.
Mr. Bounds had one sister, Mrs. Katie McClure of Cotton Valley. Mrs. Bounds had two sisters: Mrs. W.B. Pearce & Mrs. Veye Spruill both of Shreveport. The couple is also survived by 10 Grand-children and 19 Great- Grandchildren.
Story: During the early 1990's I corresponded several times with Edith Molly (Short) Bounds who was married to William Joseph's son, Guy Bounds. We spoke several times on the phone (I always loved her British accent!) as well as exchanged letters, pictures and lots of Bounds family info. During the course of our correspondences, I had asked her once if she remembered any little things that William Joe Bounds had ever told her about his life. She wrote me back in a letter dated Aug 30, 1993 that she remembered him telling her about going to school when he was small. He said, "Of course, I couldn't go all the time because back then only part of the school year was free. The other part of the year we had to pay to go. So, I could only go the free times as we didn't have the money to pay for the paying time." Molly told me she was not aware of that system until he told her. I had never heard of that either!
In that same letter she recalled how he once told her about how as a child he "carded yarn material for his mother. She would spin it and make their socks." (A pair of cards is used to brush wool or cotton between them into strands to be used for spinning).
In another letter she wrote to me, she told about how William Joe once said that "Going to Shreveport was a three day trip when he was a boy. They would take one day to get there in the wagon and camp on the Bossier side for the night. Next day they went across the river to Shreveport and did all their buying. That night was spent camping in the wagon again and the next day riding."
Molly always had a wealth of information to tell me about my "Ivan Bounds" relatives of old who lived in Ivan in Bossier Parish ~ Kevin Bounds
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The Bossier Banner
November 22, 1962
Fire Victims Rites Friday
Funeral services for a retired Bossier Parish farmer and his wife, who died last Wednesday morning when their home on the Ivan-Cotton Valley road was destoyed by flames, were held at 2 p.m Friday in the Pilgrim's Home Baptist Church.
Burial was in the Rocky Mount Cemetery.
Bossier Parish Deputy Coroner Dr. S.G.Carrington said Joe Bounds, 88,and his wife, Nannie Mae (Rabb) Bounds, 82, died of asphyxiation in the fire, which swept their home about dawn Wednesday.
Josh Bounds, a son of the couple, discovered the blaze when he got up to go to work about 5 a..m. He lives in a house next door to his parents and heard the roar of the flames, When he rushed to the burning house, he found the roof collasped and the dwelling completely enveloped in flames.
Dr. Carrington said one of the bodies was found in the bathroom and the other in a back room of the house. The frame house had burned to the ground when a fire fighting crew from the Cotton Valley Volunteer Fire Department arrived at the scene.
It was the second and third fire fatalities of the year from Bossier Parish.
Mr. & Mrs. Bounds had resided near the Ivan Community since 1914, Bossier Parish Deputy Reese Hardcastle of Plain Dealing said.
The couple is survived by three sons: Josh, who lived next to the couple, Joe Bounds of Sarepta, and Guy Bounds of Kermit, Texas. Three daughters: Mrs. B.H. Alexander of Burkburnett, Texas, Mrs. Red Brewer of Houma, La. and Miss Edna Bounds of Cotton Valley.
Mr. Bounds had one sister, Mrs. Katie McClure of Cotton Valley. Mrs. Bounds had two sisters: Mrs. W.B. Pearce & Mrs. Veye Spruill both of Shreveport. The couple is also survived by 10 Grand-children and 19 Great- Grandchildren.
William Joe Bounds, Sr. married Nannie Mae Rabb on May 8, 1898. William Joe was the son of William Richard Bounds and his second wife, Nancy Catherine Young. Nannie Mae Rabb was the daughter of Joseph Edgar Rabb and Mary Ann McDonald. Both William Joe Bounds and his wife Nannie Mae were killed in a house fire at their home in Ivan, Louisiana. Supposedly from what I was told, it was due to a gas leak or a gas valve on a stove being left open overnight.
Story: During the early 1990's I corresponded several times with Edith Molly (Short) Bounds who was married to William Joseph's son, Guy Bounds. We spoke several times on the phone (I always loved her British accent!) as well as exchanged letters, pictures and lots of Bounds family info. During the course of our correspondences, I had asked her once if she remembered any little things that William Joe Bounds had ever told her about his life. She wrote me back in a letter dated Aug 30, 1993 that she remembered him telling her about going to school when he was small. He said, "Of course, I couldn't go all the time because back then only part of the school year was free. The other part of the year we had to pay to go. So, I could only go the free times as we didn't have the money to pay for the paying time." Molly told me she was not aware of that system until he told her. I had never heard of that either!
In that same letter she recalled how he once told her about how as a child he "carded yarn material for his mother. She would spin it and make their socks." (A pair of cards is used to brush wool or cotton between them into strands to be used for spinning).
In another letter she wrote to me, she told about how William Joe once said that "Going to Shreveport was a three day trip when he was a boy. They would take one day to get there in the wagon and camp on the Bossier side for the night. Next day they went across the river to Shreveport and did all their buying. That night was spent camping in the wagon again and the next day riding."
Molly always had a wealth of information to tell me about my "Ivan Bounds" relatives of old who lived in Ivan in Bossier Parish ~ Kevin Bounds
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The Bossier Banner
November 22, 1962
Fire Victims Rites Friday
Funeral services for a retired Bossier Parish farmer and his wife, who died last Wednesday morning when their home on the Ivan-Cotton Valley road was destoyed by flames, were held at 2 p.m Friday in the Pilgrim's Home Baptist Church.
Burial was in the Rocky Mount Cemetery.
Bossier Parish Deputy Coroner Dr. S.G.Carrington said Joe Bounds, 88,and his wife, Nannie Mae (Rabb) Bounds, 82, died of asphyxiation in the fire, which swept their home about dawn Wednesday.
Josh Bounds, a son of the couple, discovered the blaze when he got up to go to work about 5 a..m. He lives in a house next door to his parents and heard the roar of the flames, When he rushed to the burning house, he found the roof collasped and the dwelling completely enveloped in flames.
Dr. Carrington said one of the bodies was found in the bathroom and the other in a back room of the house. The frame house had burned to the ground when a fire fighting crew from the Cotton Valley Volunteer Fire Department arrived at the scene.
It was the second and third fire fatalities of the year from Bossier Parish.
Mr. & Mrs. Bounds had resided near the Ivan Community since 1914, Bossier Parish Deputy Reese Hardcastle of Plain Dealing said.
The couple is survived by three sons: Josh, who lived next to the couple, Joe Bounds of Sarepta, and Guy Bounds of Kermit, Texas. Three daughters: Mrs. B.H. Alexander of Burkburnett, Texas, Mrs. Red Brewer of Houma, La. and Miss Edna Bounds of Cotton Valley.
Mr. Bounds had one sister, Mrs. Katie McClure of Cotton Valley. Mrs. Bounds had two sisters: Mrs. W.B. Pearce & Mrs. Veye Spruill both of Shreveport. The couple is also survived by 10 Grand-children and 19 Great- Grandchildren.
Story: During the early 1990's I corresponded several times with Edith Molly (Short) Bounds who was married to William Joseph's son, Guy Bounds. We spoke several times on the phone (I always loved her British accent!) as well as exchanged letters, pictures and lots of Bounds family info. During the course of our correspondences, I had asked her once if she remembered any little things that William Joe Bounds had ever told her about his life. She wrote me back in a letter dated Aug 30, 1993 that she remembered him telling her about going to school when he was small. He said, "Of course, I couldn't go all the time because back then only part of the school year was free. The other part of the year we had to pay to go. So, I could only go the free times as we didn't have the money to pay for the paying time." Molly told me she was not aware of that system until he told her. I had never heard of that either!
In that same letter she recalled how he once told her about how as a child he "carded yarn material for his mother. She would spin it and make their socks." (A pair of cards is used to brush wool or cotton between them into strands to be used for spinning).
In another letter she wrote to me, she told about how William Joe once said that "Going to Shreveport was a three day trip when he was a boy. They would take one day to get there in the wagon and camp on the Bossier side for the night. Next day they went across the river to Shreveport and did all their buying. That night was spent camping in the wagon again and the next day riding."
Molly always had a wealth of information to tell me about my "Ivan Bounds" relatives of old who lived in Ivan in Bossier Parish ~ Kevin Bounds
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The Bossier Banner
November 22, 1962
Fire Victims Rites Friday
Funeral services for a retired Bossier Parish farmer and his wife, who died last Wednesday morning when their home on the Ivan-Cotton Valley road was destoyed by flames, were held at 2 p.m Friday in the Pilgrim's Home Baptist Church.
Burial was in the Rocky Mount Cemetery.
Bossier Parish Deputy Coroner Dr. S.G.Carrington said Joe Bounds, 88,and his wife, Nannie Mae (Rabb) Bounds, 82, died of asphyxiation in the fire, which swept their home about dawn Wednesday.
Josh Bounds, a son of the couple, discovered the blaze when he got up to go to work about 5 a..m. He lives in a house next door to his parents and heard the roar of the flames, When he rushed to the burning house, he found the roof collasped and the dwelling completely enveloped in flames.
Dr. Carrington said one of the bodies was found in the bathroom and the other in a back room of the house. The frame house had burned to the ground when a fire fighting crew from the Cotton Valley Volunteer Fire Department arrived at the scene.
It was the second and third fire fatalities of the year from Bossier Parish.
Mr. & Mrs. Bounds had resided near the Ivan Community since 1914, Bossier Parish Deputy Reese Hardcastle of Plain Dealing said.
The couple is survived by three sons: Josh, who lived next to the couple, Joe Bounds of Sarepta, and Guy Bounds of Kermit, Texas. Three daughters: Mrs. B.H. Alexander of Burkburnett, Texas, Mrs. Red Brewer of Houma, La. and Miss Edna Bounds of Cotton Valley.
Mr. Bounds had one sister, Mrs. Katie McClure of Cotton Valley. Mrs. Bounds had two sisters: Mrs. W.B. Pearce & Mrs. Veye Spruill both of Shreveport. The couple is also survived by 10 Grand-children and 19 Great- Grandchildren.
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