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Note: Mona never married and lived with her parents until they died. She worked at First Nation Bank in West Union most of her life . In later years she sold the newer Bond home in Smithburg, given by the Red Cross after the flood, and lived in a retirement community in Salem, WV. She died of a kidney infection in the hospital in Parkersburg, WV. The 1920 census lists her as a stenographer in a law office. Mona was president of the Woman's Club in West Union in 1965. She joined the DAR in 1957. Member No. 454890)
Letter from Mona, "Grace's birth date is March 22, 1893. I asked Mamma why she didn't make them the same and she said she tried but I always was slow - which is ÙCuÙDSOÙC/uÙD."
Dear Larry,
Thank you so much for all the information and pictures. My mother-in-law, Corena, is flabbergasted at all the (Ramsey) family she never knew. Some things have popped up in her memory that she had forgotten about too. She had some recollections of Mona Bond. Corena stated that when she was a child she can remember going to someone's house to listen to stories from Mona Bond. She also remembers hearing of Mary Grace, but never really met her. What I cannot understand is where the families lost contact, Mona Gaines stayed in the vicinity for years. Even after she got older and the family had the winter home in FL, they still kept a cabin at Lake Floyd, with family contact every summer. Now Mona resides at that cabin year round.
From: Lisa L Ingram <margni5@juno.com> (Descendent of Lucy Blanch Ramsey)
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