Richard Bond

Audited 25 Jul 2026 - Verified vs Centennial Volume of Missouri Methodism 1906 (bio p.75, Missouri Conference Mexico District section), MEC General Minutes 1829-39 (annual appointments: Westmoreland, Lancaster, Fairfax, Great Falls, Gettysburg 1836-37, Chambersburg 1838-39, Hollidaysburg), and 1885 History of St. Charles/Montgomery/Warren Counties p.770 (Danville M.E. Church South). Birth 18 Oct 1800 Baltimore, marriage 17 Nov 1829 Warrenton VA, death 7 Mar 1853 Danville, and the birthplaces of the children all corroborated; he was a Methodist itinerant preacher AND physician (M.D. Columbian Medical College, Washington D.C.). UNPROVEN: parents (1906 bio names only a Christian mother); accidental gun shot death detail (bio says only suddenly removed - Penny obit in St. Louis Christian Advocate pending). Memo: ancestry/bond-baltimore-junction.md Audited 30 Jul 2026 (research 28-29 Jul) - Lovely Lane round. Lovely Lane Museum & Archives supplied his preacher record card (Rec. #356, Carlisle Dist., 20 Nov 1823). Printed MEC General Minutes vol I confirm the Apr 1824 admission on trial (a class of eight) and place Northumberland 1824-25 in the PENNSYLVANIA district of that name, Westmoreland and Lancaster in the Potomac District (VA), and Prince George 1828 in the Baltimore District (Prince George's Co., MD). The 1853 MECS conference memoir - his own conference's obituary and the best source on him - gives birth in BALTIMORE COUNTY, Maryland, 18 Oct 1800, the full appointment list, marriage to E. A. Thompson 17 Nov 1829 at Warrenton VA, and death 7 Mar 1853 'leaving a widow and seven children'. VERIFIED against the tree: birthplace already reads Baltimore County; the marriage matches (Fauquier County = Warrenton); and the SEVEN CHILDREN figure reconciles exactly - eight children were born, Nathaniel died 1849, leaving seven alive in Mar 1853. PARENTS STILL UNKNOWN - no source yet names his father or mother; the memoir names neither. REFUTED: descent from the Harford Co. Methodist-medical Bonds - a compiled genealogy following that line states Thomas Bond x Rebecca Stansbury left three children (John the itinerant preacher, a daughter Ann, and Dr Thomas Emerson Bond) and no Richard. ALSO REFUTED: that the middle name of son John Barnitz Bond points to kin - no Bond x Barnitz marriage exists in indexed US records. UNVERIFIED: the M.D. from Columbian Medical College, and the 'accidental gun shot' death description (the 1853 memoir, closest in time, gives no manner of death). Memo: ancestry/bond-baltimore-junction.md Audited 5 Aug 2026 - St. Louis Christian Advocate round. The State Historical Society of Missouri (Heather Richmond, Senior Archivist) supplied three microfilm page images, 5 Aug 2026; PDFs in ancestry/sources/, transcriptions in ancestry/bond-richard-stl-christian-advocate-1853-READ-2026-08-05.md. RESOLVED, superseding the UNVERIFIED wording in both sections above: the accidental gunshot is sourced to two independent 1853 printings - the editor's notice of 10 Mar 1853 p.2 c.6 ("Dr. Bond, who accidentally shot himself some weeks ago") and Rev. Daniel Penny's obituary letter of 17 Mar 1853 p.4 c.5 ("from the effect of an accidental discharge of a gun"). NEW: the shooting was not the day of death - "some weeks ago" on 10 Mar 1853 dates it to about early-to-mid February 1853, and Penny describes a weeks-long decline. DEATH PLACE CORRECTED from Danville, Montgomery Co. to CALLAWAY COUNTY, on Owen's ruling of 5 Aug 2026: Penny, at the bedside and writing the next day from Danville, says he died "at the residence of Dr. Maughas, in Callaway county"; the 1853 MECS conference memoir gives no place at all; and the 1885 county history's "who died in Danville" is a churchyard aside on a pastor list - it says the same of W. W. Redman - rather than a record of where the deathbed stood. Burial at Danville is unchanged. Dr. Maughas is probably Dr. Mordecai M. Maughs, an 1812 settler and one of Danville's founders per the 1885 History of St. Charles/Montgomery/Warren Counties, which also prints his 1837 Wetmore's Gazetteer account of the county; which county his 1853 residence stood in is UNTESTED, and a second, younger Dr. G. M. B. Maughs married in Callaway Co. in 1845. PARENTS STILL UNKNOWN, and this round closes the Missouri route to them: the obituary names no father, mother, birthplace or age, and Penny writes "I have not the means of ascertaining how long he has been in the ministry" - his pastor and neighbour of ten years did not know his earlier life. The Maryland route (MSA administration accounts, Baltimore Co. census) is unaffected. Memo: ancestry/bond-baltimore-junction.md AUDITED 6 Aug 2026 - BIRTHPLACE EVIDENCE, THE ACCIDENT, AND AN AGE CONFLICT. BIRTHPLACE. The 1850 census (District 61, Montgomery Co., Mo.; NARA M432 roll 407 p.187a, family 272 line 27, enumerated 31 Aug 1850) records his birthplace as "Va.", NOT Maryland - read on the image. That column is careful: the enumerator changed it four times in eleven lines and every other member of the household checks out (Penn for the two Pennsylvania-born sons, Mo for the three Missouri-born children, Va for the Westmoreland-born wife). AGAINST it stand two of his own sons, independently, in the 1900 census, each returning FATHER'S BIRTHPLACE = MARYLAND: [191] Dr John Barnitz Bond (Little Rock Ward 2, Pulaski Co., Ark.; roll 73 p.20 ED 0074) and [802] Prof. Richard Thompson Bond (Richmond twp., Howard Co., Mo.; roll 859 p.13 ED 0070). Every checkable field in both 1900 rows is correct. The 1853 conference memoir and the 1906 Centennial Volume both say Baltimore Co., Md., but they are NOT independent of each other. Position: MARYLAND STANDS - two 1900 informants against one 1850 informant, both instruments passing their controls. The Virginia datum is recorded, not adopted, and not deleted. The 1880 census of Little Rock is unusable on this question either way: it gives J. B. Bond's own birthplace as "Ark" (he was born at Gettysburg) and both his parents as "not known". AGE. Danville Lodge No. 72, minuting on the day of death, says he died "in the fifty-first year of his age", implying birth c.1802-03 against the memoir's 18 Oct 1800. NOT ADOPTED. The 1850 census gives his age as 49 on 31 Aug 1850, which computes exactly for 18 Oct 1800 and is two years out for 1802-03. Recorded as a conflict; the birth date is unchanged. THE ACCIDENT - RESOLVED. Two accounts conflicted: the American Bible Society's 37th Annual Report (1853) p.783 said a Mexican carbine he was examining, and the Hannibal Journal of 24 Feb 1853 said a pistol that had lain about a blacksmith's shop at Danville. The Weekly Missouri Statesman (Columbia) of 11 Mar 1853 settles it, printing an extract from a letter to the St. Louis Christian Advocate by Rev. E. M. Marvin - published expressly because "the circumstances have been misunderstood by the public": Bond called at Dr. Maughs's office FOR MEDICINE, "observed a carbine hanging against the wall", took the barrel as it hung muzzle-downward and "raised the hammer, which slipped from his fingers"; the charge "was of duck shot" and "took effect just at the left groin, ranging downward ... The wound is very deep." So: a CARBINE, at Maughs's in Callaway County - the same place he died - and NOT a pistol and NOT at Danville. The blacksmith-shop version is the error the Advocate corrected. Marvin writes "as nearly as I could learn" and was not an eyewitness. The Tri-Weekly Messenger (Hannibal) of 1 Mar 1853 shows how confused the reporting was: it announced his death six days before it happened, opening "Although the reports are confused". FREEMASONRY. Danville Lodge No. 72; Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Missouri 1844-51; Royal Arch by 1844; a petitioner for St. Louis Chapter No. 8 in 1847. Sources at register rows K74, K75 and K91. (A 'Freemasonry' fact is added separately in batch B.) THE MEMOIR'S PROVENANCE, which matters because his birth date and birthplace rest on it: the Weekly Messenger (Hannibal) of 6 Oct 1853, reporting the Missouri Conference at Palmyra, records that on Saturday 1 Oct 1853 "the chairman of the committee on Memoirs presented the memoir of Dr. Bond, which was read and adopted" - a committee document formally adopted by his own conference seven months after his death. Full working: ancestry/documents-read-index.md rows K93, K94, K98-K101. AUDITED 7 Sep 2026 - HIS SON'S DEATH CERTIFICATE NAMES HIM, AND IT WAS ALREADY CITED ON HIM. Register K508. Cit 4394 on this person is the 1915 Arizona death certificate of his son [191] Dr John Barnitz Bond (Cochise Co., Bisbee, State Index 118A, County Registered No. 286; image 013_10132433-02401). It carried empty ActualText and no media row, the register had no row for it, and it had never been opened. IT STATES "NAME OF FATHER: Richard J. Bond", birthplace of father "Pa." THE MIDDLE INITIAL WAS CALIBRATED ON THE SAME PAGE: the glyph does not match the T of "Thompson" two lines below and does match the J of "John" in the FULL NAME field, so it is read J - recorded as uncertain, because [802] Richard Thompson Bond, this man's own son, is a "Richard T. Bond". ALSO OPENED THE SAME DAY, AND IT IS THE 1850 HOUSEHOLD (register K509) - cit 4392, image 4200567_00379: 1850 U.S. Census, District 61, Montgomery Co., Missouri, enumerated 31 Aug 1850 by Cole Diggs, page 187, dwelling and family 272. "Richard Bond, 49, Meth. Minister, $1,500 real estate, b. Va.", with Eliza 43 and seven others, including John 13 b. Penn, Richard 11 b. Penn, Missouri 9 b. Mo. and Henry 7 b. Mo. Age 49 on the census date of 1 June 1850 matches a birth of 18 Oct 1800. The five children's ages AND birthplaces match [803] [191] [802] [804] [760] exactly and in birth order - and they do so NON-CIRCULARLY, because those birthplaces were corroborated on 25 Jul 2026 against the MEC General Minutes appointments recorded above, not taken from this census. A CONFLICT ON HIS OWN BIRTHPLACE, RECORDED AND NOT RESOLVED - this 1850 return says "Va."; his son's 1900 census return gives his father's birthplace as MARYLAND, which is what this tree holds (Baltimore County, 18 Oct 1800); the 1915 certificate says "Pa.", which nothing else supports. UNRESOLVED, and it does not bear on the parentage of any child. THIS PARAGRAPH IS ABOUT EVIDENCE READ, NOT A GRADE - nothing here touches this person's OWN parentage, which the 1906 bio still leaves unproven. AUDITED 23 Sep 2026 - THE BALTIMORE COUNTY WILLS CANNOT NAME HIS FATHER FROM THE SEVEN-MAN ROSTER. Register K812-K814. The candidate fathers are the seven Baltimore County Bonds whose 1810 or 1820 census households could have held him: Philip, Ric'd J J, Joseph, Benj'n, John D, Josias and Edward. The Carothers-Barnes Index of Baltimore County Wills 1659-1850 (1979; FamilySearch Books item 659668), its BOND block read in full on the image, shows that NOT ONE of them left a will in the county that could name him. Philip, Ric'd J J, Joseph, Josias and John D have no entry under their names. The only Edward entry is a will of 1797 (Book 5 f.497), before this man's birth and before the living Edward of 1820. The Benjamin of 1810 died without a will by 1815; his administration accounts, read 11 Aug 2026, name his children Samuel, Elizabeth and William. The Bond wills of the era that do exist were all read in full on the register copies. John Bond, 1815 (Book 10 f.4, read 11 Aug 2026), had one son, John. John W. Bond "of Harford County", 20 Jan 1819 (Book 11 f.11; the older index's 'Book 10' is wrong), leaves $200 to "my Step Mother Sarah Bond" and the residue to "my Brother Thomas E. Bond" - a son of the Harford family already set aside, not a father. Benjamin Bond "of the City of Baltimore", 22 Feb 1848 (Book 22 ff.189-190), names a niece, Sarah Ann Othick, and leaves the residue to "my beloved wife Susan Bond", naming no child. None names a Richard. So the will series is exhausted for these men. A father among them who died without a will could surface only in the Orphans Court records of intestates - first, Proceedings Book 10 f.264 (1819), where a Philip, Mary, Sophia and John Bond share one folio. Those volumes are not online. THIS PARAGRAPH IS ABOUT EVIDENCE READ, NOT A GRADE - his parentage remains unproven.