Lenoir County, NC, Biography for W. R. BOND ========================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be repro- duced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations.   Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.   Copyright © 1999 by Carol Pridgen Martoccia. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. by Carol Pridgen Martoccia psmartoc@eastnet.ecu.edu ========================================================= Copy found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina - Vertical File Bell 02433-5. We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. This particular document is a microfilmed newspaper--The Kinston Free Press..no date given, but judging from some of the articles it was 1899. W.R. Bond Dealer in Fresh Meats of All Kinds. Our popular and industrious marketman, Mr. W.R. Bond, was born in Kinston, January 18, 1862. He is the son of W.J. Bond, who died years ago, and Mrs. Sue Bond. He began the market business in 1879, on the 12th day of August, on Tuckahoe, and has been continuously in the business here since, excepting six months that he did business in Augusta, Ga., in the winter of 1893. In 1891 he bought the lot next to the Bank of Kinston on the north and erected a wooden buiding thereon in which he conducted his market until he was burned out in 1893. He rebuilt immediately but was burned out in 1895 and moved into the Webb building on the northeast corner of Queen and North streets. He is a a fixture there. Mr. Bond deals in fresh meats of all kinds and buys and sells hides, furs and beeswax. He is an up to date marketman and endeavours to keep the best stall fed beef and the nicest fresh meats of all kinds. He is prepared for summer or winter weather. Mr Bond was married October 9, 1882, to Miss Justine Wharton, who died July 31, 1892. She left four children, three boys and one girl. They live, with their father and grandmother, Mrs Sue Bond, in his comfortable home on East Street.