SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 54

(By Senators Williams, Stollings and Plymale)

[Introduced March 1, 2016]

Requesting Division of Highways name bridge number 12-220-4/38 (12A068) (38.92159, -79.18086), locally known as Pansy Bridge, carrying US 220 over North Mill Creek in Grant County, West Virginia, the “Union Army CPT John Bond Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, John Bond was born April 18, 1818, in Pendleton County in what was then the state of Virginia; died October 23, 1892, and is buried in Bond Cemetery, Brushy Run, West Virginia; and

Whereas, Captain Bond was a justice of the peace from 1852 to 1859 and was also the coroner for Pendleton County; and

Whereas, Captain Bond served in Company A, West Virginia State Troops, from 1862 to 1863 as part of the loyal Virginia Troops, which were also known as the Home Guard; and

Whereas, Company A was made up of approximately fifty-three men from the area now known as Franklin Pike, but at the time was called North Mill Creek; and

Whereas, The local Home Guard was involved in several skirmishes around the Petersburg and North Mill Creek areas with the Confederate McNeill’s Rangers from the Moorefield area.  They also were involved in transporting supplies from the closest railroad station at New Creek Station, now known as Keyser; and

Whereas, It is fitting that an enduring memorial be established to commemorate Union Army CPT John Bond representing Company A of the West Virginia State Troops who ably served their country in its time of greatest need; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number 12-22-4/38 (12A068) (38.92159, -79.18086), locally known as Pansy Bridge, carrying US 220 over North Mill Creek in Grant County, West Virginia, the “Union Army CPT John Bond Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of the Division of Highways is hereby requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the “Union Army CPT John Bond Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways and to Randy Ours, Commander, 7th West Virginia Infantry Camp 37, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 5611 Franklin Pike, Petersburg, WV  26847.