Oswego, New York is where the Bond family moved to when they left Kingsbury, NY. It’s also where the Doran/Kelly family lived. While visiting there we visited two cemeteries, Riverside where the Bonds are buried, including Harold John Bond (my husband’s grandfather) and St. Peter’s Catholic Cemetery where the Doran and Kelly families are buried including Marie Alice Doran Bond, Harold’s wife (my husband’s grandmother).
Our first stop was Riverside Cemetery. The Bond family have a center monument with the graves around it in a circle in Section Q of the cemetery. Ozro M Bond and both of his wives, Phebe Ann Dunham and Harriet Shepard, have inscriptions on the large center monument.
Ozro’s father Barnet Bond is here. (Barnet’s wife Lovina Miller is back in Kingsbury.) It really makes me sad to see the deterioration of his tombstone. I took a picture of it back in the late 1980s and it looks so much worse now.
Ozro and Harriet’s son Orville Bond and his wife Antoinette Cooper are also buried there as is their son Harold John Bond. Harold’s wife Marie Alice Doran is not. Other family members include Ozro’s sister Sarah Jane Bond, Ozro and Harriet’s other son John M Bond and his wife Carrie Lewis and their son Lewis R Bond, two young daughters of Orville and Antoinette (Ethel Lena and Mary Esther), and the young grandson of Orville and Antoinette who was the child of their son Orzo George Bond and his wife Florence Tibbetts. Three of Harold and Marie’s children are also here.
One interesting person buried in the Bond plot is Mary A Conlee, 1857-1884. I don’t think she is a relative, I think she was a servant in the household of Ozro and Harriet. There is a Mary Ann Connors age 20 listed on the 1875 NY Census living with them. Then on the 1880 US Census there is a Mary A O’Connell age 23. So I am assuming that her age is exaggerated by two years on the 1875 census and that her name was listed incorrectly, but close to correct, on both census records. She was listed as a domestic who was born in Canada in 1875 and as a servant born in Ont (think this would mean Ontario) in 1880.
There is another Bond section, Section U, also in the cemetery. Thankfully I had contacted the cemetery beforehand and told them when we would be there and was left a map taped to the office door pointing to the sections we wanted to visit. This section was up a hill and even once we drove up there we still had a problem finding it even though I knew there was a large stone that said Bond on it. Turns out it was behind a tree blocking our view initially, but we found it. This is where Charles Bond and his family are buried. Charles was the son of Ozro Bond and his first wife Phebe Dunham. Buried here are Charles H Bond, his wife Julia Phelps, and their son Montcalm Bond. Also there are Jean P Wadhams (although there is no death date on the stone, so she may not actually be buried here) and Darius T Wadhams. Montcalm’s wife’s name was Jean Tainter. Is Jean Wadhams the same person? Is Darius her second husband? I need to do more research on this.
After we got home I realized that Charles and Julia had a son Charles Phelps Bond who died as a baby and is buried in another part of Section Q. According to what is on the Find A Grave website there is quite a large monument there, https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bond&GSiman=1&GScid=65813&GRid=140579416&. It does seem strange that he appears to be the only one in that plot.
Our next stop was St. Peter’s Catholic Cemetery. I had e-mailed back and forth with someone from there who had sent me a detailed map with arrows drawn on it and we still had trouble finding people.
The first people we found are actually from the Bond side. Pauline Bond and her husband Richard Burden. Pauline was the daughter of Orville and Antoinette.
Next up was trying to find the Dorans/Kellys and they were not easy to find, but we finally did. Patrick Doran and his wife Anna Kelly were my husband’s great-grandparents. Their daughter, Marie Alice Doran (my husband’s grandmother) is also here, not in Riverside with her husband Harold John Bond. Buried next to Marie is Ethel Wells who is the women who ended up raising Marie’s 3 young children after she passed away at the age of 36. Also here is Patrick and Anna’s son Vincent Doran and Anna’s sisters Margaret Kelly Davis and Nora Kelly.
Anna’s brother John B Kelly and his wife Rose Donovan are buried in another nearby section.
Stay tuned for the next blog post which will be about our trip around the city of Oswego looking for houses, churches, and stores connected to the Bond and Doran families.
Jean Painter, not Tainter, was Montcalm’s wife. After he died, she married Mr. Waddhams. She died in Florida in 1966. Jean was my late husband’s great aunt.
Thanks for the info on Jean. So happy you found my blog.
Thank you fir the nice photos. Jean was probably buried in Florida. She had no children, so my husband’s father took care of the funeral without ever notifying my husband.
Actually I just found her obituary. She was brought back to Oswego and buried there.
Thank you. I will look up her obit.
I e-mailed it to you along with some other info.