Album 5 - Julia Frances (Bond) Spalding

The Margaret and Julia Bond Albums:

     These photos were gathered throughout their lifetimes and put in albums by two daughters of Robert Lewis Bond (1836-1916) and Martha Jane Ramey (1850-1907), who lived in Carrollton, Carroll Co., KY.   Five such albums were assembled by Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce (1874-1970), wife of Norval Lee Pierce (1871-1951) and Julia Frances (Bond) Spalding (1877-1968), wife of Okey Wallace Spalding (1872-1956).  Additionally, included here is a miscellaneous collection of photographs, scans and digital images captured from the world wide web that have been used for identification or to clarify the identification of the album subjects.

Album 1:    Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce
Album 2:    Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce
Album 3:    Margaret Ramey (Bond) Pierce
Album 4:    Duplicate and/or Important Photos from Albums 1-3
Album 5:    Julia Frances (Bond) Spalding
Miscellaneous:    Loose photos or unassociated images used for identification or clarification

Photography:

     Photos were selected from each album for family interest and to eliminate duplicates, of which there were more than a few.  The photos were copied at a time when digital scanners were too expensive for home use, so they were first photographed.  The selected photos were placed under glass and photographed using four floodlamps at approximately 45 degrees to the lens to minimize glare.  The film was Kodak Plus-X, developed in Kodak D-19.  The resulting negatives were sent to Eastman Kodak to be scanned at 2000dpi and placed on a CD.  The highest resolution image (of five) of each exposure was then stripped from the CD and stored as a .jpg.  Thumbnails are shown below, each having a link to the full resolution image.

     Some albums have two parts, each having numbering from 0001, owing to the limited storage capacity of the original CDs for the images.  On this website, the second part may or may not be shown, or only a few images of the second part may be shown.  This is because the second parts contain photographs of living persons. 

     Many of the snapshots in the albums may have been taken using a No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak roll film camera, which was part of Margaret (Bond) Pierce's estate.  It produced negatives 3¼×5½ inches in size.  A large number of snapshots in these albums are that size.

Identification:

     Each photograph in the albums has been numbered sequentially, using the form: ALBUM2-PT1 001.  They are in chronological order, with a few exceptions.  Generally, each photo has some kind of caption with it in the albums 1-5; this is quoted immediately following the photo number.  Captions may contain the subject(s) present in a photograph and/or the locale and/or date/year.  If a person is not identified by its caption, they are often identified in another photograph or photographs, which is then included in the subject discussion.

Cast of Characters:

     Margaret Ramey Bond (1874 - 1970), was the daughter of Robert Lewis Bond (1836 - 1916) and Martha Jane "Mattie" Ramey (1850 - 1907).  She lived with her three sisters, Maynie Laura Bond (1872 - 1957), Julia Frances Bond (1877 - 1968), James Dorothy "Dot" [or "Tot"] Bond, and one brother, Richard Frank (who was called Frank or R. Frank) Bond (1881 - 1948).  While growing up, the family first lived at a farm called Clearview, in the Sharon neighborhood on Four Mile Road about five miles south of Ghent, Carroll County, Kentucky; this house was abandoned but still standing as late as 1997.  Later, they moved to a larger house called Smoke Tree, on the Ohio River bank, about one mile east of Carrollton, Carroll County, Kentucky; this house burned to the ground in the early  's.  After his children left home and his wife died, Robert L. Bond moved to a smaller house called Mapleview in Sanders, Carroll County, Kentucky; this house is still occupied.  About 1910, Margaret moved to New Orleans, living with her brother Frank.  She married, in 1912, Norval Lee Pierce (1871 - 1951), son of James Perry Pierce (1841 - 1916) and Emeline F. Rolston (1840 - 1895) of Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky.  They first lived in Marseilles, Illinois, where Norval was the manager of a General Roofing Company (now known as Certainteed) Plant.  Almost immediately, they started making plans to return to farming, purchasing 647¼ acres just south of Woodville, Wilkenson County, Mississippi, that they called The Plantation, despite the fact that the "big house" appears to be a three-room clapboard shack, where both of their children were born.  In 1919, they sold out of Woodville, and moved to Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi, first on an 80-acre farm west of town, and about 1925, to a town lot in Tupelo.  By 1930, they lived in Chicago, flying high in real estate speculation.  Their oldest, Norval Lee Pierce, Jr. died in April of 1931 from a ruptured spleen, the unexpected effect of a boyish fight, they were running a sandwich shop (more like a hot-dog stand) around the corner from their residence.  By the winter of 1932/33, they gave in to the depression and moved onto "Frankelva", the 69-acre summer or vacation property/farm just south of Natchitoches, Louisiana owned by Frank and Elva Bond, Margaret's brother and sister-in-law.  Initially, Norval fixed up the house, which was in a disreputable state, to be livable.  It then became a comfortable summer retreat of Frank and Elva.  In 1936, they were joined there by Okey and Julia (Bond) Spalding, Margaret's sister.  After the death of Frank Bond in 1948, Norval Pierce in 1951 and Elva shortly after, Margaret, Julia and Okey were allowed to continue to live on "Frankelva", despite its deed having descended to Elva's heirs.  Some time after Okey died in 1956, the two sisters, now elderly, moved to a rental house in town. 

     Maynie Laura "Dixie" Bond (1872 - 1957) was R. L. and Mattie Bond's eldest child.  In 1891, she married Pierce Godbey Winslow (1873 - ?). Pierce was a cabinet-maker in the 1910 census, later, a hand in an automobile plant.  In 1901, they had a son, William Beverly Winslow (named after Pierce's father); he died at just 6 years of age in 1907.  Shortly thereafter they divorced.  Pierce re-married sometime between 1920 and 1930.  Maynie moved to the Oakland area and re-married Clarence Seward Smith (his 2nd marriage) between 1915 and 1920.  Smith had been born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and was naturalized before their marriage.  They lived in Oakland the remainder of their lives.  He was a home-builder during the California bungalow era; she ran a boarding house in one of his large houses.

     Julia Frances Bond (1877 - 1968), Margaret's next youngest sister, married in 1905 Okey Wallace Spalding (1872 - 1956).  Okey was a traveling salesman, and, for a while, they lived with R. L. Bond in his Sanders, Kentucky house.  There, they had a daughter, Margaret Catherine "Kit" Spalding (1907 - 1992).  When Kit was small, they lived in Lake Charles, Louisiana, then Little Rock.  In 1936, after Kit was off to college, Julia and Okey joined Margaret and Norval at "Frankelva" in Natchitoches.  Kit studied nursing at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, but had a long career as a newspaper reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

     James Dorothy "Tot" Bond (1979 - 1964), Margaret's youngest sister, married in 1906 Arthur Yaeger Hayes (1979 - 1942).  He was described as a banker in their marriage record, and later as a farmer in the census.  They lived in Smithfield, Henry County, Kentucky, where his family was located and he was born.  Tot Hayes worked as a bookkeeper when she worked.  They had two sons: Robert Bond Hays (1912 - 1969), a Methodist minister who lived in the Atlanta, Georgia vicinity, and Arthur Hayden Hayes (Abt. 1915 - Bet. 1915-1920) who died in infancy.

     Richard Frank "R. Frank" "Frank" Bond (1881 - 1948), the only son of Robert L. and Mattie Bond, married in 1918 Elva Victoria Nash (1884 - 1951).  By 1910, his occupation was listed as superintendent of a cracker factory in New Orleans; his entire career was spent in the employ of the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco), New Orleans.  Frank and Elva bought a house in New Orleans at 30 Neron Place, about a block from the intersection of Canal St. and S. Carrollton St., the end of the line of the St. Charles streetcar.  Elva received, as a legacy from her mother, the ~69 acre farm, which she and Frank re-named: "Frankelva."  When Frank's sisters, Margaret and Julia and their husbands, needed a place to ride out the depression, and eventually to retire, "Frankelva" was offered.  In return, Norval Pierce and Okey Spalding renovated the house and kept the property in repair. 

001	ALBUM5 001:  Photographic gelatine print. Photographer:  Snapshot. Subject:  "Dad and daughter. Margaret Catherine age 6 weeks".  Margaret Catherine Spalding, nicknamed Kit was born 20 Mar 1907 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY and died 27 Apr 1992 in Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR.  She worked as a nurse, a secretary for the W.P.A. and eventually as a reporter for a Little Rock newspaper.      Margaret Catherine's parents were Okey Wallace Spalding (1872-1956) from Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY and Julia Frances Bond (1877-1968) from Carrollton, Carroll Co., KY.      This photo also appears in Album 4 Pt. 1 Image 036. Date:  c.1907.
002	ALBUM5 002:  Photographic gelatine print. Photographer:  Snapshot. Subject:  "Sanders, KY IMe (Kit) is the baby".  IMe is the name that Margaret called herself when a baby/toddler.  Her mother thought it was cute enough to refer to it in this album of hers.      From the age of about 2 years, her nickname was Kit, which is how her relatives called her. Date:  c.1907.
003	ALBUM5 003: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Margaret Catherine age 3 mo.".  She is held by her mother, Julia.  Often in snapshots such as these, Kit's father, Okey, is the photographer. Date: c.1907.
004	ALBUM5 004: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Uncle Frank & Kit age 4 mo, Sanders, KY".  Richard Frank Bond (1881-1948) went by the name Frank.      The Sanders location was the house of Robert Lewis Bond (1836-1916), Kit's grandfather, where Okey and Julia Spalding lived for a while around when Kit was born. Date: c. .
005	ALBUM5 005: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: " Kit age 7 mo. Cherokee Dr., Louisville (home of grandparent Spaldings)". Date: c.1907.
006	ALBUM5 006: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: " Kit age 18 mo.". Date: 1908.
007	ALBUM5 007: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Kit age 2 yrs at 'Fair View' Sanders, KY". Date: c.1909.
008	ALBUM5 008: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Daddy & Kit Spalding". Date: c.1909.
009	ALBUM5 009: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Mother & Kit 2 yrs at 'Fairview' Sanders, KY". Date: c.1909.
010	ALBUM5 010: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Mother & I'me". Date: c.1909.
011	ALBUM5 011: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Kit Spalding age 2 yrs 6 mo, Fairview". Date: 1909.
012	ALBUM5 012: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Grandfather & I'me". Date: c.1909.
013	ALBUM5 013: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "'Fairview', home of R.L. Bond [but also called 'Maple Lawn']". Date: c.1910.
014	ALBUM5 014: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Margaret Catherine Spalding, Carrollton, KY". Date: c.1910.
015	ALBUM5 015: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Kit Spalding at Sanders, KY". Date: c.1910.
016	ALBUM5 016: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Grandfather [Bond] and Gay Denmark". Date: c.1910.
017	ALBUM5 017: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "I'me and her chickens, 'Fairview'". Date: c.1911.
018	ALBUM5 018: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Auntie Mar [Margaret Bond] & I'me. Blue Lick Springs, Sanders, KY". Date: c.1911.
019	ALBUM5 019: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Grandfather Bond, Auntie Mar, Miss Nell Billings, Miss -- Billings, Freddie [ not in order]". Date: c.1910.
020	ALBUM5 020: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Uncle Bill Currie, Kit Spalding and Mother (Julia Spalding) [other man unknown]". Date: c.1910.
021	ALBUM5 021: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Kit Spalding, 1st Mardi Gras 1910". Date: 1910.
022	ALBUM5 022: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "I'me and her classmates, Virginia Britten, Nellie Louise Britton, Annie Stratler, Helen Stratler". Date: c.1912.
023	ALBUM5 023: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject:  "Spaldings".  L-R: Okey, Kit, Julia. Date: c.1912.
024	ALBUM5 024: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Studio portrait, unknown studio. Subject: "Kit Spalding New Orleans 1912". Date: 1912.
025	ALBUM5 025: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Studio portrait, unknown studio. Subject: "Kit Spalding New Orleans 1912". Date: 1912.
026	ALBUM5 026: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Woodville Miss [home of N.L. Pierce] Robt. Bond Hays and Catherine Spalding". Date: c.1914.
027	ALBUM5 027: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Miss --, Margaret Catherine Spalding, Mary Emily Bringel, Grandfather Bond". Date: c.1912.
028	ALBUM5 028: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Commercial Street home, N.O., La". Date: c.1914.
029	ALBUM5 029: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding]". Date: c.1914.
030	ALBUM5 030: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding]". Date: c.1916.
031	ALBUM5 031: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject:  "unmarked [Kit Spalding]" Date: c.1916.
032	ALBUM5 032: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Dorothy Bond Hays (1879-1964)]". Date: c.1916 .
033	ALBUM5 033: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding, unknown, unknown]". Date: c.1916.
034	ALBUM5 034: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding]". Date: c.1920.
035	ALBUM5 035: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding]". Date: c.1917.
036	ALBUM5 036: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [unknown]".  Kit Spalding is the girl on the left.  Catherine Liddle is the girl on the right.  Catherine Liddle occurs in a number of photographs with Kit Spalding; they might be best friends. Date: c.1915.
037	ALBUM5 037: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding & Norval Lee Pierce]". Date: c.1915.
038	ALBUM5 038: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding]". Date: c.1916.
039	ALBUM5 039: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Catherine Liddle (l) and Margaret Catherine Spalding (r)]". Date: c.1916.
040	ALBUM5 040: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding]". Date: c.1916.
041	ALBUM5 041: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [prob. Kit, Julia and Robert Bond Hays]". Date: c.1917.  Robert Bond Hays (1912-1969) looks about 4-5
042	ALBUM5 042: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [school - Kit looks to be under the left arm of a teacher]". Date: c.1914.  She appears to be about 7.
043	ALBUM5 043: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding (l) and Catherine Liddle (r)]". Date: c.1916.  They look about 9 years old.  They could be standing in front of Catherine Liddle's house, since other photos show all the Spalding houses, and this is not one.
044	ALBUM5 044: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [school photo; Kit is seated directly under the window]". Date: c.1920.  The children appear to be about 13.
045	ALBUM5 045: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding in Grandmother's dress (Mattie Bond)]". Date: 1924-1927.  Kit appears to be about 17-20 years old.
046	ALBUM5 046: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding in grandmother's dress (Mattie Bond)]". Date: 1924-1927.  Taken at the same time as Album5 045.
047	ALBUM5 047: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Studio portrait. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding]". Date: c.1925.  Probably a high school graduation portrait.
048	ALBUM5 048: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Studio portrait. Subject: "unmarked [Kit Spalding]". Date: c.1925.  She is wearing a different dress than the one in Album5 047, so it is not likely the same sitting, but she is about the same age.
049	ALBUM5 049: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "House Party at Uncle Tom Ramey's house, Eminence, KY".      Thomas Moses Ramey (1852-1901) and his wife Louellen (Gould) Ramey (1854-1929) are Julia Bond's uncle and aunt.      The persons in this photograph were not identified.  Fortunately, some of them occur in other photographs, e.g., Album1 053 (Ella Hampton, Bess Hampton, Jack Hampton),  Album3 Pt1 085 (Walton, Harvey, Jack, Mary & Ella Hampton), and Album 4 Pt1 017 (all Hampton siblings), which allow some guesses to be made (printed on the lower photo).       In addition to the printed names on the photo, the second woman from the right (just to the left of Louellen Ramey) is probably Mary Caroline (Moore) Hampton (1850-?), the mother of the Hampton children present.  Her husband, Solomon Ernest Hampton (1837-1917), is probably the male in a bow tie on the back left.  They had three sons and three daughters: Mary Emily (1873-1955), Moses Jackson (1875-1947), Ella Kate (1877-1971), Bessie Payne (1878-?), Harvey Moore (1878-1949), and Walton Lawrence (1882-1986). Date: c.1895.  Julia and her friends appear to be still in high school, but seniors, i.e., about 18.
050	ALBUM5 050: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Mattie Bond Ramey married Cunningham. Mattie, Lou, Anna".      Martha Bond Ramey (1884-1958) married Dr. Rex Eugene Cunningham (1883-1940) and had children Matthew James (1909-1986) and Lou Ann (b. abt. 1915). Date: c.1915.
051	ALBUM5 051: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "House Party at Uncle Tom Ramey's house, Eminence, KY".  See discussion of Hampton children for Album5 049. Date: c. .
052	ALBUM5 052: Photographic albumen print. Photographer: Amateur or Professional 5x8" glass plate  contact print. Subject: "House of Weddings 'Clear View' Sep 5, 1905, Sep 6, 1906    Date: c. 1906.
053	ALBUM5 053: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Mother [Julia maybe]". Date: Unknown.  The photo appears to be a gelatine print probably no earlier than 1900, in which case the caption of "mother" does not make sense.  Even assuming that Kit Spalding wrote the caption, her mother would have been that age c.1880.
054	ALBUM5 054: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "1st home of OW & Julia Spalding, Louisville w Frank & Margaret".  From right to left: Okey Spalding, Julia (Bond) Spalding, R. Frank Bond, and Margaret Bond. Date: c.1910.
055	ALBUM5 055: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Julia Bond" [copy from carte de visite or tintype].  Julia Frances Bond (b.1877).  A carte de visite having this image is in the James A. Bond Album Image #JAB-0029 Date: c.1880; she appears to be about 3.
056	ALBUM5 056: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "OW Spalding 'When we were young'".  Okey Wallace Spalding (b.1872). Date: c.1878.
057	ALBUM5 057: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "James F. Pierce ~1944". Date: c.1944.
058	ALBUM5 058: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "O.W. Spalding was in wholesale --- [looks like him with hands on hips out front]". Date: c.1930's.
059	ALBUM5 059: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Snapshot. Subject: "Our 1st schoolhouse, White's Run Baptist Church". Date: c.1900.
060	ALBUM5 060: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Professional school photo. Subject: "school photo [Julia- front row, striped dress; Margaret- second row, black choker ribbon]".  It appears that other children were identified around the edge when this print was mounted in an album, but most of the edge has been lost along with the original album.  This fragment was inserted loose into Album 5, which has black paper pages. Date: c.1883.  Margaret would be about 9 years old and Julia about 6.
062	ALBUM5 061: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Professional school photo. Subject: "Margaret Bond detail in school photo". Date: c. .
061	ALBUM5 062: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Professional school photo. Subject: "Julia Bond detail in school photo". Date: c. .
063	ALBUM5 063: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Studio portrait.  This is a thin paper print, but this pose also exists on a cabinet card (James A. Bond Album Image #JAB-0018). Subject: "Julia Bond" Date: c. .
064	ALBUM5 064: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Studio portrait, photographer unknown. Subject: "Julia Bond" Date: c.1900.  She appears to be about 25 years old.  This photo also appears in Album 4 Pt. 1 Image 035.
065	ALBUM5 065: Photographic gelatine print. Photographer: Studio portrait, photographer unknown. Subject: "James Pierce, Margaret Bond Pierce (seated); Julia Bond Spalding, far right" Date: c.1960's.  This appears to have been taken just a few years prior to Julia's death in 1968.  The wrought-iron railing and door trim appear to be identical to architectural details on a  house at 709 Bossier St., Natchitoches, LA, an address that appears on their voting registration in the 1960's.

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