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Are we related? Is your great-grandfather kin to ours. Mine start With John Bond of Beaufort Co. NC, BORN 1695 DIED 1749, Then John Jr. born 1722, died 1750, Col. John Bond III born 1749 died 1836 in MS, then Lt. Col. John Bond IV born 1770 NC, died 1862 MS. Ceaphus Bond born 1842 MS, died 1906 MS, William Davis Bond born 1861 MS, died 1935 MS. Daddy was Quincy Floyd Bond born Sept. 12, 1896, died Nov. 14, 1974, Picayune, MS.

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I know only what I have read and been told. My Dad
liked to talk about his Dad, and spun a good tale.
Grandpa Davis Bond was the first born at a time the South was
inconflict, and the conditions were not good for most Southerners.
His father Ceaphus Bond had trouble providing for his family, like
so many others in these times.
Davis was sent to stay with his Uncle Andrew Jackson Bond, and
find work to help out. Twice he traveled to Texas, to help an Uncle
roundup his cattle for the drive to market.
The first time he had to walk, because the only horse had to be
used for plowing. He left early so he would have enough time to
get there before the roundup started.
He walked as direct a path as he could considering the swamps
in La. One day while walking through the Achafalia River basin,
he came upon a clearing, it was and island in the swamp, and there
was a two story building right in the middle. This turned out to be
a general store ran by a man from MS.
Davis stayed to rest and helped out around the store for a few
days. Saturday afternoon the owner told him to go to his room and
stay there no matter what he heard or saw, until morning. Then he
propped the doors open and him and his wife went to there room.
All thru the night people came out of the swamp, there was
shooting, fighting, yelling, and all out general mayhem.
At sunrise Davis came down to find the owner cleaning up. It
was a mess goods were all over the place. He told the owner that
this would break him, and in reply the owner said that everyone
would pay him. On Monday people started coming in, they knew
just what they had taken, and payed up. Before he left most of
them had come in and payed.

Family Reunion Preparation

Get ready for the upcoming family reunion! It's at Aunt Bertie's this year, so bring your bowling gear and your swimsuits.Also be thinking of which family member could be the following trees inthe family grove: the nut tree, the fruity tree, the shady tress, thetree with the most bark, or the evergreen.

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