Levantia Babcock Bond was born at Jacksonville, Iowa, January 3, 1857, and died of pneumonia at her home in Nortonville, Kan., February 6, 1931, in the seventy-fifth year of her age.
Levantia Cooper Babcock was the daughter of Joshua Babcock and Charlotte Lippincott Babcock. When she was a small child her parents moved with their family to Humboldt, Neb. Here, Levantia joined the Longbranch Seventh Day Baptist Church as a young girl. At about the age of eighteen she went to Garwin, Iowa, where she later was married to Preston Randolph Bond in November, 1877.
Mr. and Mrs. Bond with their family lived about six years at Garwin, then about two years in Humboldt, Neb. After this they homesteaded near Dighton, Kan., about ten years. They came to Nortonville in 1897, where Mrs. Bond has lived ever since. Her husband preceded her in death nearly twenty-two years, passing away in June, 1909.
Mrs. Bond transferred her membership to the Nortonville Seventh Day Baptist Church after going to live there and was always a faithful Christian and loyal member. She could always be depended upon to share in the work and worship of the church and was regular in attendance, bringing up her family and two grandsons whom she also raised, to do likewise.
Mr. and Mrs. Bond had five children, all of whom survive her: Mrs. Hattie Hurley and Mrs. Addie Brown, both of Riverside, Calif.; Bert Bond, Nortonville; Mrs. Rose Brandon, Perry, Kan.; and Edwin Bond, Nortonville. Mrs. Bond is also survived by one brother, C. C. Babcock, and one sister, Mrs. Lara [Laura] Babcock.
There are sixteen grandchildren and step-grandchildren, all living: Bernard, Kenneth and Orville Hurley, Myron Brandon, Elsie Christie, Edwin, Jr., Raymond, Alice, James, and Margaret Bond; Cleone and Oscar Shasteen; Alva and Beulah Bond; Robert Hurley.
There are three great-grandchildren: Gladys Mae Christie, Marilyn Hurley, and Marjorie Hurley.
Funeral services were held from the Seventh Day Baptist church, Nortonville, Kan., February 9, 1931, the pastor officiating. Interment was in the Nortonville cemetery. S. D. O.
