Obituary
of Elder Leonard Bond
McLeansboro Times - March
17, 1910
LEONARD BOND, Treasurer of Hamilton County, died
at his home in this city
Tuesday night, March 8, aged 67
years. Mr. Bond had been ill but a few days and
his death came as a shock to his
relatives and friends. The funeral will be held from
Blooming Grove church at 10 o'clock this morning, and interment will be in the
Blooming Grove cemetery. We will
publish a suitable obituary next week..
McLeansboro
Times - March 24, 1910
Elder LEONARD BOND was born in Hamilton County,
Illinois, August 24, 1842.
He professed a hope in Jesus on Saturday night
before the 4th Sunday in September,
1859, and the next day baptized
into the fellowship of Blooming Grove Baptist
church by Eld. J.B. Smith. He was
married to SERENA HENSLEY February 5, 1862.
To this union 8 children have
been born, viz. Mary Eldora, now Mrs. J.D. Hooker;
John E.; Flora, now Mrs. Dug
Garrison; Harry S.; Nevada, now Mrs. Sam Witter;
Dauson L.; Effie, now Mrs. Frank
McLain and one died in infancy.
He was an ordained deacon of this church and
served in that capacity well for many
years. He was licensed to preach
on the 3rd Saturday in November, 1879, and was
ordained to the full work of the
ministry April 15, 1881. Presbytery consisted of
Elds. H.P. Cravens, J.B. Smith, W.H. Camer and
R.G. Echols. He was pastor of a
few churches and conducted some fine meetings until declining health
caused him
to give up the active work of
ministry, but always had an interest in the work, and
told his wife just a few days
ago, he wished he could hold one more good meeting
before leaving the world.
He has been twice Treasurer of Hamilton county,
besides being Treasurer of his
township for a number of years,
and one of his chief regrets was that he would not
live to fill out his present term
of office.
He fell asleep Tuesday evening at 11:05 p.m.,
March 8, 1910; aged 67 years, 6
months and 14 days. He leaves a
devoted wife, with whom he has lived happily
for more than 48 years, 7
children, who were devoted to their father, two brothers,
Wilburn and Riley, and one
sister, Mrs. Sarah Moore. He leaves a number of
grandchildren and many other
relatives and friends to regret his leaving us. All join
in saying, A good
man has left us. We had no good men that we felt willing to
spare. He has made mistakes no
doubt, but they were of the head and not the heart.
He was one of the honest men of this generation.
