!For details of his life see, The Bonds: An American Family. This book
discusses his children by "Aunt Jane", a slave of the family. She was a
wedding present to Belinda Fletcher Arthur when she married the Rev. Preston
Bond.

Source of names of children: 1850 and 1860 Federal Censuses.

Notes written by Marcia Moss Lewis:
"Aunt" Jane was almost white. She could teach and Henry (her son) was principal of the colored school. He was a great friend of our family. I knew my father sent him law clients.

Aunt Jane and Aunt Mary would take care of us when my mothe and father were away for a short time. Aunt Mary, the older, died. I remember how fat and jolly Aunt Jane was, also that she allowed me to climb all over her. I dearly loved her. Once I asked her about my great grandfather Captain Ambrose Arthur (veteran of the War of 1812) how did he treat his slaves. Did he beat them, etc. Well, she laughed and laughed before she could reply. She said, "I was the only one he ever beat." I was furious. I said "Aunt Jane, I hate my great grand father I can never like him." She said "Now just a minute, it happened when I was a tiny little girl. In the early spring, I went out in the vegetable garden and pulled up a lot of sprouts, beans, peas, etc. I was having a great time when your great grandfather came into the garden. He said 'Jane, you are ruining our garden -- vegetables we need to eat. Now I have never beaten one of my slaves but you are going to be beaten and in disgrace.'" She said he walked over to a corner where there was an asperagus bed; it had been covered with straw which was in a pile. "He took of those pieces of straw and beat my ankles." Then he said, 'You are in disgrace.'"

Aunt Jane said to me "He should have kilt me." She lived on the son Henry's farm and did not like her daughter in law. Henry and his wife had to be careful as they had a hard time financially. Once in awhile, she just could not endure and had to come see her "white folks." Henry got her in his wagon and brought her to our house. She said "I just misss my white people. I have always lived with them and get so tired of living with colored (her son). She stayed as long was she wished, going to my grandparent's home and to my aunt Arabella Arthur Mahan (Mrs. J.C. Mahan) homes. As she was born in 1828 and my grandfather Arthur was born 12 June 1830. They had many things to recall. She told me she was not going to die until she held my first born child in her arms. G. Lewis Jr. was born 25 March 1919. As soon as I was strong enough, we drove to Henry Bond's farm and he was put in and Aunt Jane got her wish to hold my 1st child in her arms. She died in 19 and is buried in the old Briar Creek cemetery [Williamsburg, Kentucky]. Half the cemetery was for white and the other part for colored. She was utterly remarkable. I believe all of her grandchildren or at least the male ones were college graduates. Her most prominent discendant is Julian Bond of Atlanta, GA. i hope that up in Heaven she heard him nominated for vice president of the U.S.

There is a book which I have about Julian Bond, my brother told the writer about the beating story and a lot about Aunt Jane as he was older than I. I wish the author had asked me for pictures of her. I have them of both sisters. Some one made up a dreadful picture of her -- she never was ugly, her laughing, her loving. I adored her.