403 East Baltimore St. Jackson, TN
Circa 1900. Spacious brick home
Judge Chester George Bond (1846-1928) and Kate Royser Bond. He was an attorney and practiced with several partners until settling in with his grandfather. His parents were Mary Chester and George Bond and his grandfather was Robert J. Chester of Elmwood Place. Both parents died by his fourth year. For years, he was responsible for legal matters for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad as well as the Illinois Central Railroad. Judge Bond constructed a building to hold his offices and others as well - the Bond-Horton Building at 211 East Baltimore in 1880.
It is likely that Chester G. Bond, Jr. (1881-1941) and Anna Josephine Church Bond (1882-1987) inherited the home. They wed in 1910. After Bond Jr. died, the home seems to have been sold out of the family. The Bond's son, Bond III, went into the U.S. army.
About 1941, the Lawrence-Sorensen Funeral Home purchased the building and continues to operate from E. Baltimore St.
In 1954, the Bond's son Robert Harold Bond (1888-1955) and Nell Neudorfer Bond (1891-1965) sold a 20-acre parcel of his Bond family land in south Jackson to the Madison County Board of Education to build a new high school - J. B. Young High School (also known as Bemis High). The spot had been known locally as Bond Woods.
The structure is now used by Lawrence Sorenson Funeral Home. The family is remembered with E. Chester St.
Sources:
Jackson & Madison Co. A Pictorial History, E.I. Williams, M Smothers, M. Carter, 1988, p.48
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