Sarah L. (Slusser) Bond (1848 - 1899)

Born 15 Dec 1848 in Avon Township, Lake, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Died 23 Jun 1899 at age 50 in Pike, Wyoming, New York, United States

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Biography

Sarah L. Slusser was born 15 Dec 1848 in Hainesville, Lake County, Illinois, the daughter of Orville Slusser and Jane Hendee.

Marriage and Children

She married Lafayette Bond and was the mother of:

• Robert Bruce Bond
• Clarence E. Bond
• Lyle E. Bond
• Walter A. Bond

Chronology

• Fact: Residence (1850) Avon, Lake, Illinois, United States
• Fact: Residence (1860) Avon, Lake, Illinois, United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Fond Du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States
• Fact: Burial Lakeside Cemetery, Libertyville Township, Lake, Illinois, United States

The 1880 census found Sarah L. Bond, 31 living in Fond Du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin with her husband, Lafaette Bond and one child, Lyle E. Bond, 1 year old.

• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Mrs. LaFayette Bond nee Slusser died at her home Thursday evening June 23rd of typhoid fever. Deceased was born in Hainesville, Ill., Dec. 15, 1848. In December 1875 she was married to Mr. Bond then living in Fond du lac. After being settled for some time in that city and Dakota they moved to Libertyville in 1892. Besides her husband she leaves five children, the youngest, Robert, ten years old. (Source: Find a Grave)

Death and Burial

Sarah died on 23 Jun 1899 and is buried in the Lakeside Cemetery in Libertyville, Lake County, Illinois.

OBITUARY: Lake County Independent, Friday, June 30, 1899

Mrs. LaFayette Bond nee Slusser died at her home Thursday evening June 23rd of typhoid fever. Deceased was born in Hainesville, Ill., Dec. 15, 1848. In December 1875 she was married to Mr. Bond then living in Fond du lac. After being settled for some time in that city and Dakota they moved to Libertyville in 1892.

Besides her husband she leaves five children, the youngest, Robert, ten years old.

The funeral was held from the home Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. G. D. Heuver of the Presbyterian church officiating. He said in part:

The public estimate pronounced upon the departed is generally fairly correct. This makes it to be almost out of place for a minister to pronounce an estimate. His opinion cannot alter the judgment which the people have already formed. There is in the present instance no desire to alter it. By her quiet consistent goodness deceased had risen step by step until she had come to occupy a very high place in the regards of all who knew her.

When I came first in your midst now four years ago, she was one of the first persons I heard well spoken of. Since that time I have heard frequent expressions of regret that her domestic duties, taste and affliction confined her so closely to her home. The public wanted more of her. They who knew her best spoke always most kindly of her and declare that they never heard her say anything unkind of others. She was a cultured person, a loving wife, a faithful mother and a gentle lady.

I am moved with great sorrow over what appears to us to be a very untimely death. You, her husband and children, have my most heartfelt sympathy.

A day like this is an epoch in your lives. It may be a crisis. Sorrow blesses or curses. After this tribulation you will be either worse or better. If while steeped in such sorrow, you murmur, and in the bitterness of your heart rebel against the Creator it is almost sure to hurt you. If you will seek to bear it in the spirit in which Christ bore his great trial it is sure to bless you. Whether sorrows bless or harden depends on the spirit in which one bears them. Sorrow in its influence is like sunlight. As the sunlight causes the dead branch to fade so does sorrow hurt the heart that is dead in trespasses and sins. As the sunlight causes the life branch to grow so does sorrow expand and beautify the soul that is alive – that is arisen with Christ and seeks the things that are above. The same affliction that embitters the life of one, sweetens that of another. “No affliction for the present seemth to be joyous but grievous; nevertheless, it worketh the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby, that is, to thoset who are wise enough to profit by it.

There is no better developer of character than sorrow if rightly born. It makes the soul mellow and tender as the sun the apples of the orchard. It takes away harshness, the worldly temper, skepticism and thoughtlessness respecting things eternal. It brings sympathy, thoughtfulness, faith, peace and love. There are faces that charm us, not because of any fairness of complexion or regularity of features, but by reason of an extraordinary light and sweetness that beams from them and speaks of perfection through suffering. The best steel gets its temper from the fire, so do souls get their finest qualities from passing through the fires of tribulation. As the flames separate the dross from the gold, as the threshing of the threshing machine parts the straw and the chaff from the wheat so do afflictions serve to purify the soul from its impurities. “Through tribulations we enter the Kingdom.”

Trouble is vicarious. The wave of sympathy that sweeps over a community when calamities like the present befall any of its members is an influence for good that is incalculable. Men are roused to thoughtfulness and stirred to kindly deeds which nothing else could rouse.

Trouble drives men to God. As long as we prodigals have plenty to eat and to spend we are perfectly content. As long as we have only husks to feed on we get on without God. But when these are gone, when earth has nothing more to offer, then we ____ and go to our Father. Then welcome to trouble! What matters it how bitter the medicine if it only cures? What matters it how hot the fire if it only removes the impurities.

You cannot see the use of your troubles? Perhaps not. We don’t know much. We are hemmed in by mysterious on every hand, “What I do thou knowest not now but thou shall know hereafter,” applies to many things. We shall know more hereafter. Looking back over the checkered experiences of this life of ours, we shall one day, strike the harp and sing with cordial joy and gratitude because we were permitted these trials. This world is a training school. Our years here are probationary and they are well adapted to our needs. A great infidel has said that the could make a better world than this world is. If this world were all be could, perhaps. But he could not improve upon it as a place for character development for a future life.

Troubles are miracles to disguise. We suffer here in order to be fitted for the life hereafter. We are getting ready for eternity. Therefore “Blest be the sorrow, kind the storm that drives us nearer home!”

In a few moments the body of your loved one will be brought to the cemetery. But it is not her we bury. As the coffin is lowered into the grave and the dull heavy thud of earthfalls upon it, there will come to you feelings of unutterable sadness. Perhaps the sound of those clods will seem to reverberate nothing but death! death! death! Do not believe these sounds. No man dies. “there is no death, what seems so is transition”.

You will come to realize this increasingly as you feel what Jesus calls eternal life pulsing within you, in knowledge of god, righteousness, purity, love.

A large number of friends have done to pay homage to your dead relative. The homage which they pay is a homage paid to goodness. They suffer with you. In their name I extend to you their heartfelt sympathy. They are interested in you. They feel for you. The tears they shed are not tears of sentiment, but of genuine sympathy for you, and reverence for the sweet life which has left us.

OBITUARY: Lake County Independent, Friday, June 30, 1899

Mrs. LaFayette Bond nee Slusser died at her home Thursday evening June 23rd of typhoid fever. Deceased was born in Hainesville, Ill., Dec. 15, 1848. In December 1875 she was married to Mr. Bond then living in Fond du lac. After being settled for some time in that city and Dakota they moved to Libertyville in 1892.

Besides her husband she leaves five children, the youngest, Robert, ten years old.

The funeral was held from the home Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. G. D. Heuver of the Presbyterian church officiating. He said in part:

The public estimate pronounced upon the departed is generally fairly correct. This makes it to be almost out of place for a minister to pronounce an estimate. His opinion cannot alter the judgment which the people have already formed. There is in the present instance no desire to alter it. By her quiet consistent goodness deceased had risen step by step until she had come to occupy a very high place in the regards of all who knew her.

When I came first in your midst now four years ago, she was one of the first persons I heard well spoken of. Since that time I have heard frequent expressions of regret that her domestic duties, taste and affliction confined her so closely to her home. The public wanted more of her. They who knew her best spoke always most kindly of her and declare that they never heard her say anything unkind of others. She was a cultured person, a loving wife, a faithful mother and a gentle lady.

I am moved with great sorrow over what appears to us to be a very untimely death. You, her husband and children, have my most heartfelt sympathy.

A day like this is an epoch in your lives. It may be a crisis. Sorrow blesses or curses. After this tribulation you will be either worse or better. If while steeped in such sorrow, you murmur, and in the bitterness of your heart rebel against the Creator it is almost sure to hurt you. If you will seek to bear it in the spirit in which Christ bore his great trial it is sure to bless you. Whether sorrows bless or harden depends on the spirit in which one bears them. Sorrow in its influence is like sunlight. As the sunlight causes the dead branch to fade so does sorrow hurt the heart that is dead in trespasses and sins. As the sunlight causes the life branch to grow so does sorrow expand and beautify the soul that is alive – that is arisen with Christ and seeks the things that are above. The same affliction that embitters the life of one, sweetens that of another. “No affliction for the present seemth to be joyous but grievous; nevertheless, it worketh the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby, that is, to thoset who are wise enough to profit by it.

There is no better developer of character than sorrow if rightly born. It makes the soul mellow and tender as the sun the apples of the orchard. It takes away harshness, the worldly temper, skepticism and thoughtlessness respecting things eternal. It brings sympathy, thoughtfulness, faith, peace and love. There are faces that charm us, not because of any fairness of complexion or regularity of features, but by reason of an extraordinary light and sweetness that beams from them and speaks of perfection through suffering. The best steel gets its temper from the fire, so do souls get their finest qualities from passing through the fires of tribulation. As the flames separate the dross from the gold, as the threshing of the threshing machine parts the straw and the chaff from the wheat so do afflictions serve to purify the soul from its impurities. “Through tribulations we enter the Kingdom.”

Trouble is vicarious. The wave of sympathy that sweeps over a community when calamities like the present befall any of its members is an influence for good that is incalculable. Men are roused to thoughtfulness and stirred to kindly deeds which nothing else could rouse.

Trouble drives men to God. As long as we prodigals have plenty to eat and to spend we are perfectly content. As long as we have only husks to feed on we get on without God. But when these are gone, when earth has nothing more to offer, then we ____ and go to our Father. Then welcome to trouble! What matters it how bitter the medicine if it only cures? What matters it how hot the fire if it only removes the impurities.

You cannot see the use of your troubles? Perhaps not. We don’t know much. We are hemmed in by mysterious on every hand, “What I do thou knowest not now but thou shall know hereafter,” applies to many things. We shall know more hereafter. Looking back over the checkered experiences of this life of ours, we shall one day, strike the harp and sing with cordial joy and gratitude because we were permitted these trials. This world is a training school. Our years here are probationary and they are well adapted to our needs. A great infidel has said that the could make a better world than this world is. If this world were all be could, perhaps. But he could not improve upon it as a place for character development for a future life.

Troubles are miracles to disguise. We suffer here in order to be fitted for the life hereafter. We are getting ready for eternity. Therefore “Blest be the sorrow, kind the storm that drives us nearer home!”

In a few moments the body of your loved one will be brought to the cemetery. But it is not her we bury. As the coffin is lowered into the grave and the dull heavy thud of earthfalls upon it, there will come to you feelings of unutterable sadness. Perhaps the sound of those clods will seem to reverberate nothing but death! death! death! Do not believe these sounds. No man dies. “there is no death, what seems so is transition”.

You will come to realize this increasingly as you feel what Jesus calls eternal life pulsing within you, in knowledge of god, righteousness, purity, love.

A large number of friends have done to pay homage to your dead relative. The homage which they pay is a homage paid to goodness. They suffer with you. In their name I extend to you their heartfelt sympathy. They are interested in you. They feel for you. The tears they shed are not tears of sentiment, but of genuine sympathy for you, and reverence for the sweet life which has left us.

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 01 January 2023, 02:35), entry for Sara L. Slusser Bond (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KP7Z-P1W ); contributed by various users.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 02 November 2022, 01:13), entry for Sara L. Slusser Bond (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KP7Z-P1W ); contributed by various users.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 02 November 2022, 01:13), entry for Sara L. Slusser Bond (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KP7Z-P1W ); contributed by various users.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 27 October 2022, 16:31), entry for Sara L. Slusser Bond (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KP7Z-P1W ); contributed by various users.

• Year: 1880; Census Place: Fond Du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Roll: 1426; Page: 287A; Enumeration District: 046

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