Bond, John (4)
Bond, John (3)
a Baptist minister, was born in Anson County, N. C., Feb. 23, 1787. He removed, when a child, with his father’s family to Union District, S. C., and in 1806 to Wilson County, Tenn He was converted in 1802. In 1820 he was ordained, and became pastor of the Union Church, and continued to hold the office thirty-nine years, for which service he received eleven dollars, the result of a donation party. For a term of years he was also pastor of Smith’s Fork Church. For many years he was the moderator of the Concord Association, and took rank with the best ministers of his denomination in Tennessee. He died March 2, 1871. See Borum, Sketches of Tennessee Ministers, p. 92-95. (J. C. S.)
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Bond, John (4)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born in 1799, and was converted at the age of seventeen. He entered the ministry in 1823. His last circuit was Midsummer Norton, where he died Nov. 30, 1840. His discourses were evangelical and practical, and evinced extensive reading and patient study. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1841. Bond, Joseph, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Stokes County, N. C., July 9, 1814. Having experienced religion and received license to exhort, he removed to Missouri, and in 1844 was licensed to preach, and admitted into the St. Louis Conference. Between 1863 and 1865, on account of the ravages of the war, he sustained a superannuated relation. He was then transferred to the East Texas Conference, wherein he labored with fidelity and usefulness until Dec. 27, 1867, when he suddenly died in the midst of his labors. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church South, 1868, p. 283.