James O. Bonds Sr. served as Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County NC for 25 years until he retired.
We genealogists owe him a debt of gratitude.
When he first took office in 1965, the old courthouse was still in use. He located and gathered all of Cabarrus County's oldest records from the basement of that old courthouse where they were haphazardly stored in boxes and stacks. He brought them up to the Register of Deeds office and began his work. He organized and indexed and cross-referenced them. The process he developed to accomplish this feat became mandated in 1970 for all counties in NC to organize everything together in the Register of Deeds office to protect the old records from being destroyed, lost, damaged or thrown out in error.
He was a graduate of Wake Forest University where he was a star player on Demon Deacons Men's Basketball Team in the 1930's. He had gone to Wake on a basketball scholarship.
He was a US Marine in WWII in Iwo Jima.
He taught school and coached in various counties in NC and VA in the 1940's and 1950's.
He first ran for Register of Deeds in the early 1960's. He retired from the job in the late 1980's with 25 years of service to Cabarrus County residents.
He married the love of his life, Rose White, in Bertie Co NC in August 1948, where he was teaching school and coaching. She is the mother of his three children. Their second child, an unnamed son, died at birth in 1953 and he is buried at Port Royal VA where they lived at the time. Rose is Memorial # 80912421. Her sudden illness and death in 1966 were traumatic for her entire family. She left a void that has never been filled.
He married Nannie Lee "Barney" Barnhardt Allen (widow of Howard Allen) in 1967 and they had no children together. She died in 1997 and she is Memorial# 134398073. She is buried with her first husband, Howard Allen, Memorial# 70564947 at Oakwood Cemetery in Concord NC.
We genealogists owe him a debt of gratitude.
When he first took office in 1965, the old courthouse was still in use. He located and gathered all of Cabarrus County's oldest records from the basement of that old courthouse where they were haphazardly stored in boxes and stacks. He brought them up to the Register of Deeds office and began his work. He organized and indexed and cross-referenced them. The process he developed to accomplish this feat became mandated in 1970 for all counties in NC to organize everything together in the Register of Deeds office to protect the old records from being destroyed, lost, damaged or thrown out in error.
He was a graduate of Wake Forest University where he was a star player on Demon Deacons Men's Basketball Team in the 1930's. He had gone to Wake on a basketball scholarship.
He was a US Marine in WWII in Iwo Jima.
He taught school and coached in various counties in NC and VA in the 1940's and 1950's.
He first ran for Register of Deeds in the early 1960's. He retired from the job in the late 1980's with 25 years of service to Cabarrus County residents.
He married the love of his life, Rose White, in Bertie Co NC in August 1948, where he was teaching school and coaching. She is the mother of his three children. Their second child, an unnamed son, died at birth in 1953 and he is buried at Port Royal VA where they lived at the time. Rose is Memorial # 80912421. Her sudden illness and death in 1966 were traumatic for her entire family. She left a void that has never been filled.
He married Nannie Lee "Barney" Barnhardt Allen (widow of Howard Allen) in 1967 and they had no children together. She died in 1997 and she is Memorial# 134398073. She is buried with her first husband, Howard Allen, Memorial# 70564947 at Oakwood Cemetery in Concord NC.
James O. Bonds Sr. served as Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County NC for 25 years until he retired.
We genealogists owe him a debt of gratitude.
When he first took office in 1965, the old courthouse was still in use. He located and gathered all of Cabarrus County's oldest records from the basement of that old courthouse where they were haphazardly stored in boxes and stacks. He brought them up to the Register of Deeds office and began his work. He organized and indexed and cross-referenced them. The process he developed to accomplish this feat became mandated in 1970 for all counties in NC to organize everything together in the Register of Deeds office to protect the old records from being destroyed, lost, damaged or thrown out in error.
He was a graduate of Wake Forest University where he was a star player on Demon Deacons Men's Basketball Team in the 1930's. He had gone to Wake on a basketball scholarship.
He was a US Marine in WWII in Iwo Jima.
He taught school and coached in various counties in NC and VA in the 1940's and 1950's.
He first ran for Register of Deeds in the early 1960's. He retired from the job in the late 1980's with 25 years of service to Cabarrus County residents.
He married the love of his life, Rose White, in Bertie Co NC in August 1948, where he was teaching school and coaching. She is the mother of his three children. Their second child, an unnamed son, died at birth in 1953 and he is buried at Port Royal VA where they lived at the time. Rose is Memorial # 80912421. Her sudden illness and death in 1966 were traumatic for her entire family. She left a void that has never been filled.
He married Nannie Lee "Barney" Barnhardt Allen (widow of Howard Allen) in 1967 and they had no children together. She died in 1997 and she is Memorial# 134398073. She is buried with her first husband, Howard Allen, Memorial# 70564947 at Oakwood Cemetery in Concord NC.
We genealogists owe him a debt of gratitude.
When he first took office in 1965, the old courthouse was still in use. He located and gathered all of Cabarrus County's oldest records from the basement of that old courthouse where they were haphazardly stored in boxes and stacks. He brought them up to the Register of Deeds office and began his work. He organized and indexed and cross-referenced them. The process he developed to accomplish this feat became mandated in 1970 for all counties in NC to organize everything together in the Register of Deeds office to protect the old records from being destroyed, lost, damaged or thrown out in error.
He was a graduate of Wake Forest University where he was a star player on Demon Deacons Men's Basketball Team in the 1930's. He had gone to Wake on a basketball scholarship.
He was a US Marine in WWII in Iwo Jima.
He taught school and coached in various counties in NC and VA in the 1940's and 1950's.
He first ran for Register of Deeds in the early 1960's. He retired from the job in the late 1980's with 25 years of service to Cabarrus County residents.
He married the love of his life, Rose White, in Bertie Co NC in August 1948, where he was teaching school and coaching. She is the mother of his three children. Their second child, an unnamed son, died at birth in 1953 and he is buried at Port Royal VA where they lived at the time. Rose is Memorial # 80912421. Her sudden illness and death in 1966 were traumatic for her entire family. She left a void that has never been filled.
He married Nannie Lee "Barney" Barnhardt Allen (widow of Howard Allen) in 1967 and they had no children together. She died in 1997 and she is Memorial# 134398073. She is buried with her first husband, Howard Allen, Memorial# 70564947 at Oakwood Cemetery in Concord NC.
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