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BENJAMIN F. BOND, a native of Carroll County, Ky., was born September 4, 1833, the fourth son of William and Harriet (Scott) Bond, natives of Virginia and Carroll County, Ky., respectively. John Scott, the maternal grandfather of B. F. Bond, was a native of Ireland, and a Baptist minister; he lived near Ghent, Carroll County, where he died about 1847. John Bond, paternal grandfather of our subject, was a native of Virginia, a farmer by occupation, and one of the pioneer settlers of Carroll County. William Bond, the father of Benjamin F., served under R. M. Johnson in the war of 1812; he died in January, 1864, in his seventieth year. Benjamin F. Bond was educated in the common schools, and has always followed farming as an occupation; he now owns a fine farm of 210 acres, five miles from Carollton on the Eagle Pike. In October, 1867, he married Miss Fannie Barrett, a native of Carroll County, and daughter of Magruder and Margaret Barrett, natives of Virginia. Five children blessed this union, viz.: Robert A., Clarence M., Jennie, Abbie E. and May T. John C. Bond, second son of William and Harriet (Scott) Bond, was born May 19, 1823. His maternal grandfather, John Scott, a surveyor, settled near Ghent, and was the original owner of large tracts of land in Carroll, Grant and Owen Counties. The paternal grandfather of our subject, a Virginian, was of English ancestry, and settled in Owen County, near New Liberty, where he died. John C. Bond was born in Carroll, then Gallatin County, Ky.; has always engaged in farming, and now owns a farm of 350 acres. In 1875he married Miss Jennie Barrett, daughter of Magruder Barrett. One child, John, has blessed this union. Mr. Bond is a member of the Baptist Church.