. Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915. e married Mary Osborn, whodied in 1870 at the age of eighty-two. He wasthe owner of a fine home at Gettysburg andtwelve head of horses, which he used on thestagecoach on the pike between Gettysburg andBaltimore. William Bond was nine years old when heaccompanied his parents and his venerablegrandfather to Jefferson county, in his father took up a homestead in theBeechwoods. The family afterwards movedto Pittsburgh, where they remained until hewas nineteen years of age, when they againreturned to Beechwoods, where
. Jefferson County, Pennsylvania : her pioneers and people, 1800-1915. e married Mary Osborn, whodied in 1870 at the age of eighty-two. He wasthe owner of a fine home at Gettysburg andtwelve head of horses, which he used on thestagecoach on the pike between Gettysburg andBaltimore. William Bond was nine years old when heaccompanied his parents and his venerablegrandfather to Jefferson county, in his father took up a homestead in theBeechwoods. The family afterwards movedto Pittsburgh, where they remained until hewas nineteen years of age, when they againreturned to Beechwoods, where they had builta substantial home on the old his father was justice of the peace andlegal authority of the community for manyyears. William Bonds sisters were: Eliza-beth Jane, wife of William Smith, and NancyR., wife of Hugh McCullough, both marryingpioneer residents of the Beechwoods. On the 1st of January, 1851, William Bondwas united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth-Cooper, who was bom in Beechwoods. Wash-ington township, March 15, 1829, and was the. .. YORK I ;ARY ASTOrt, LFNOX JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 17 daughter of William and Martha Cooper, be-longing to another of the sterling Scotch-Irish pioneer families of Jefferson county, ref-erence to whom will be found elsewhere in thisvolume. She died Oct. 16, 1902, when she wasseventy-three years of age. She was a womanof high and noble qualities and strong Chris-tian character, her memory being revered byall who came within the compass of her kindand gracious influence. She was one of Godsgreatest gifts to the world—a pure and noblewoman. Mrs. Bond was a high type of themother and friend of the early pioneer days,self-sacrificing, chivalric and noble, and hermemory stands as a living monument to a wellspent life. From the days of her childhood tothe end of the last chapter of her earthlycareer hers was the model of an exemplarylife. As the maternal head of a well knownfamily she gained a prominence among
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