Thomas-Stewart-Mitchell County GaArchives Biographies.....Bond, Andrew Jones 1864 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 858

   ANDREW JONES BOND, who belongs to one of the old families of Southwest
Georgia, is a well known and prosperous citizen of Meigs. He is a native of
Stewart county, having been born on a farm there the 1st of May, 1864.

   His grandfather, Thomas Bond, a farmer by occupation, who so far as known was
a life-long resident of Elbert county, reared seven sons and two daughters. John
Rafe Bond, the father of Andrew J., was the seventh son, and was born at
Elberton, Elbert county, in 1833. When a very young man he came to South
Georgia, buying land in Stewart county, and was there successfully engaged in
farming and stock raising until his death, which occurred in 1899. The maiden
name of his wife was Martha Frances Broach, and she was a daughter of Thomas and
Elizabeth Broach. She is still living, at a good old age, on the home farm in
Stewart county, her son, John Willis, being manager of the estate. Her five
children are Josephine, Andrew Jones, Eliza Cornelia, John Willis and Dora.

   Andrew J. Bond was reared and educated in his native county, and has always
been an industrious worker and good business manager. At the age of twenty-three
he moved out to Texas, where he bought a tract of land in Hunt county and
developed it as a farm, selling it at the end of three years. After six years'
residence in Texas he returned to Georgia and for a time lived on the home place
in Stewart county. In 1899 he bought land in Mitchell county six miles from
Pelham, selling this in 1902, and during the following six years was a resident
of the town of Pelham. After a sojourn of about six months in Florida he
selected as his next place of residence the town of Meigs, where he is now owner
of seventy-five acres within the corporate limits, and he also has a farm of 125
acres in Grady county. Most of his land is operated by tenants. He has been very
successful in business, has developed a good deal of country property, and is a
man of much enterprise. In 1905 he became a civil service employe of the
government, and is still in charge of a rural mail route from Meigs.

   Mr. Bond was first married in July, 1904, to Miss Eula Hand, whose father,
Amos F. Hand, is a well known resident of Meigs. Mrs. Bond died in June, 1905.
In 1907 he was united in marriage with Miss Vera May Young, daughter of William
J. Young, of Meigs. The two children of Mr. Bond and wife are named Edgar E. and
Velma Eilene.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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