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About Jane Bond
Jane was born in slavery about 1833 in Knox County, Kentucky, and died as Jane Bond on July 27, 1922, in Whitley County, Kentucky.
From Kentucky African Americans Database
Born in Knox County, KY, Jane Arthur was owned by Ambrose Arthur, one of the largest slave holders in the county. She was the mother of James and Henry Bond; their father was Rev. Preston Bond of Anderson County, KY. [Preston was the husband of Belinda Arthur, daughter of Ambrose Arthur.] Jane Arthur was the great-grandmother of Julian Bond, civil rights leader and former Georgia Representative and Senator. She died of a stroke when she was in her 90s. For more see The Bonds, by R. M. Williams.
- According to Carrie Stewart of Williamsburg, KY, Jane Arthur and her family also lived in Williamsburg.
From The Descendants of Thomas Arthur
Jane Arthur was a slave owned by Ambrose Arthur who was later given to his daughter Belinda as a Wedding Present after her marriage to Preston Bond. Jane Arthur is the Great Grandmother of Civil Rights Leader and former head of the NAACP Julian Bond.
The following account made by Jane is found in "The Bonds: An American Family" by Roger M Williams. Pages 4-5.
Ambrose Arthur, with Jane's family and other slaves as well, was one of the largest slaveholders in the county. According to stories passed down among the white Bonds, he was a kindly master. An unpublished reminiscence written by Arthur's great-granddaughter quotes Jane as calling him "a fine gentlemen and a kind master'" In this reminiscence Jane, "bursting with fun," tells a tongue-in-cheek story about how she was "the only slave beaten by him": "I was a very, very little girl, about three I guess, it was early in the spring, the garden was full of tender little sprouts of young plants. Just as I went down the row and pulled up a lot of these tender young plants. Just as I was in the midst of all . . Captain Ambrose Arthur appeared in the garden. He said, "Jane, you are ruining our garden. I have never raised my hand to one of my slaves but I am going to have to punish you." So he went over to a corner of the garden where straw was piled which had been over the asparagus bed. He picked up one of the straws and gently tapped me on my legs. Honey, he should have kilt me."
From "Julian Bond tells of family’s slave history at March on Washington" 1:55 p.m. Aug. 28, 2013 by Daniel Malloy / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“My grandfather and his mother were property, like a horse or a chair,” the former NAACP chairman said below a marble Abraham Lincoln.
“As a young girl she’d been given away as a wedding present to a new bride. And when that bride became pregnant, her husband — that’s my great grandmother’s owner and master — exercised his right to take his wife’s slave as his mistress. That union produced two children, one of them my grandfather.”
From “The Bonds: An American Family.” Roger M. Williams. Page 7.
References
- “The Bonds: An American Family.” Roger M. Williams. (1971). < GoogleBooks >
- Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via son Dr James W. Bond by SmartCopy: Aug 18 2015, 17:16:24 UTC' Jane Crockett Arthur (1833-1922)
- "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2XW-ZJK : accessed 29 December 2022), Jane Bond in household of Henry W Bond, Depot, Whitley, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 260, sheet 22A, family 407, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 506; FHL microfilm 1,374,519.
- "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHPP-QQQ : 1 February 2021), Jane Bond in entry for Henry Bond, 1920.
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138372996/jane-arthur
- "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9NH-GZ1 : 22 August 2022), Jane Bond in entry for James Bond, 1929.
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9JXC-QVY
- “Notes for Jane Arthur Bond.” < link >
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Jane Bond's Timeline
| 1828 |
1828
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Knox County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1863 |
September 5, 1863
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Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1865 |
1865
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Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1922 |
July 27, 1922
Age 94
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Depot, Whitley County, Kentucky, United States
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July 27, 1922
Age 94
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Briar Creek Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky, United States
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