... Abner D. and Rebecca M. (Long) Bond - were natives respectively of the Old Dominion and the Keystone State and had located in Ohio for a time previous to their removal to Indiana. The senior Bond was born Feb. 27, 1795, in Virginia, and with three brothers - Joseph, Allen, and John - removed to Belmont county, Ohio, where they engaged in farming. Joseph and Allen lived out the remainder of their lives in Belmont county, but Abner and John removed to Wayne county, Indiana, Abner locating at Cambridge City, where he engaged in the sale of Seth Thomas clocks, having eight or ten wagons which traveled over Indiana and Illinois. Later he engaged in the live stock business and also conducted a distillery, in which buisiness he remained until his death, which occurred Dec. 9, 1863. Mrs. Rebecca M. Bond, our subject's mother, survived her husband many years, passing away on march 30, 1899, in her sixty-ninth year, her birth date having been Jan. 10, 1831, and the place Manheim, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. To them had been born three children, but two of whom, Harry D. and Margaret D., now survive. ...
