James Martin Bond

© Hennessey Clipper

03-03-1955

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Funeral services were held February 23 at 1:30 PM in the Darnall Chapel for James Martin Bond, 85, who died Saturday morning, February 16 at a local hospital after a lengthy illness.

Rev. Ralph Cooper, pastor of the Grand Avenue Methodist Church officiated. Burial was made in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Born in Bates County Missouri, Mr. bond was a veteran of three runs for land into Oklahoma. He was on hand when Old Oklahoma was opened in 1889; at the Cherokee Strip opening in 1893 and the opening of the Cheyenne – Arapaho country. His claim staked during the Cherokee Strip opening was 3.5 miles southeast of Bison. He moved to Enid in 1923 and had resided there since.

He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, Custer County and was a member of the Methodist Church. His first wife, Mrs. Alma Ross, Hennessey, died in 1904. He remarried in 1906 to Edith Clingan, Cash, and she died in 1934.

Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Hurley Beshears, Oklahoma City, Mrs. Charles Henneke, Drummond, Mrs. Harry Hall, Wichita, Mrs. Bert Johnson, Mrs. C. R. Turner, both of Enid; two sons, Floyd C. Bond, Enid, and Glenn Bond, Eagle Creek, Oregon; three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Byrd, Oklahoma City, Mrs. Oliver Harring, Ringwood, Mrs. Walter Hamilton, Enid; one brother, Claude Bond, Enid; 13 grandchildren and five great – grandchildren.

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