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John W. Bone July 25, 1829 - unknown
Hopkins County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,

JOHN W. BONE was born in Hopkins County, Ky., July 25, 1829, and is a son of 
Thomas and Louisa M. (Wilkins) Bone, the former a native of Madison County, the 
latter of Todd County, Ky., and both of Scotch-Irish descent. In 1812, when 
about ten years old, Thomas Bone moved with his parents to Muhlenburgh County, 
Ky. There his father, John Bone, a veteran of the Revolution, having served 
throughout the entire war, took up a military claim and improved a farm. There 
Thomas was married, and soon afterward in 1826 came to what is now Hopkins 
County, Ky., and bought wild land near the present site of Nebo, where he 
improved a farm, upon which he resided for some twenty-six years. He then sold 
out and bought another farm in the same vicinity, where he resided until his 
death in April, 1870, in his sixty-eighth year. He and wife were from childhood 
members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was an earnest advocate of 
temperance and a member of the old Washingtonian Society. John W., after 
attained his majority, engaged as a salesman in a dry goods store at 
Madisonville for three years. In 1852 he went to California, crossing the 
plains with an ox-team. In California he followed farming on the Sacramento 
River for three years; he then returned to Hopkins County, and was engaged in 
farming two years, after which he followed merchandising at Nebo for two years. 
He then learned the carpenter's trade, which he has since followed in connection with farming. He was for sixteen consecutive years one of the magistrates of Hopkins County. In August, 1855, he married Miss Marion J. Bowers, a native of Christian County, Ky. Nine children have blessed this union, five of whom
- four sons and one daughter - are living. Mr. and Mrs. Bone are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which church he has been a ruling elder for more than twenty-five years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, has advanced to the Royal Arch degree, and has served as W. M. of his lodge for several years; he is now and has been for the past seven years secretary of his lodge, in which he is one of the oldest Masons. He is also a member of the I.O.G.T. and in politics a Democrat.


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