Bond County, Illinois Genealogy Library and Resources

Bond County

Bond County was formed from Madison County on 4 January 1817.

Communities: Burgess, Central, Donnellson, Greenville, Keyesport, Lagrange, Mills, Mulberry Grove, Old Ripley, Panama, Pierron, Pleasant Mound, Pocahontas, Shoal Creek, Smithboro, Sorento, Tamalco

Map: Bond County from Sectional map of Illinois, J.H. Colton & Co., 1836; Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division

Virtual Libraries

William Henry Perrin, History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois (Chicago, Illinois : O.L. Baskin and Co., 1882)

Will C. Carson, Historical Souvenir of Greenville, Illinois (Effingham, Illinois : The LeCrone Press, 1905)

Allan H. Keith, Historical Stories about Greenville and Bond County, Illinois (Mattoon, Illinois : self published, 2002)

BCGS News, Spring 1986, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 20.

Cemeteries

Bond County Historical Society, Tombstone Inscriptions Found in the Cemeteries in Bond County, Illinois,, Part 1, (Greenville, Illinois : Bond County Historical Society, 1970). Cemeteries: VFW Hall, Baldwin, Bethel, Blanchard, Brown, Camp Ground, Collier, Corrington, Coyle, Cruthis, Dewey, Diamond, Duncan, Dunkard, Durham, Edwards, Elm Point, Enloe, Ethridge, File

Bond County Historical Society, Tombstone Inscriptions Found in the Cemeteries in Bond County, Illinois, v. 1-3 (Greenville, Illinois : Bond County Historical Society)
Part 1 (same as above), p. 1-89

Part 2, p. 90-232
Cemeteries: Fain, German, Glenn, Gum, Hall’s Grove, Hastings, Hazel Dell, Hubbard, Hug, Hunter, Jett, Lansing, Laws, Liberty, Maxey, McKendree Chapel, Mt. Gilead, Mt Pleasant, Mulberry Grove, Old City.

Part 3, p. 233-339
Cemeteries: One Grave, Two Graves, Mt. Nebo-New, Mt. Nebo-Old, Noffsinger, Paine, Peterson, Pogue, Seagraves-Segraves, Smith Grove, Snow, Sugg, Tisdale, Union Grove, Wade, Wait, Wisetown, Wright, Zion.

Bond County Historical Society, Tombstone Inscriptions Found in the Cemeteries in Bond County, Illinois, vol. 4 (Greenville, Illinois : Bond County Genealogical Society, 1974). Cemeteries: Babcock, Bethlehem, Britt, Donnellson, Durr, File, Horab, Hubbard, Laws 2, Kirkland, Merry, Messinger, Mt Moria, Mount Rose [Montrose], Neathery, Catholic, Rawson, Rhea, Robinson, Smith, St. Lawrence Catholic, Sunnyside, Sybert, Traylor, Walnut Grove, White

Nelda Neer Anthony and Sarah M. Neer, Cemeteries, Bond County, Illinois, Book 1, (Greenville, Illinois : Bond County Genealogical Society, 1988). Cemeteries: Hazel Dell, Smith Grove, St. Lawrence, Zion, Wisetown

Nelda Neer Anthony, Cemeteries, Bond County, Illinois, vol. 5, (Greenville, Illinois : Bond County Genealogical Society, 1992), 200 pages. Cemeteries: Snow, Sybert, File, Enloe, Cruthis, New Nebo, Coyle, Massey, Lansing, Hubbard, Vaughn, Tisdale, Daggett, Dunkard, Booher, Corrington, Mt. Auburn, Wait, Wade, Peterson, Neathery, Brethren

Gerald E. Jenner, Mt. Gilead Cumberland Presbyterian Church and Cemetery History 1819-1993, 184 pages