Octavia Zollicoffer Bond

Octavia Zollicoffer Bond
BornApril 18, 1846 Edit this on Wikidata
Hickman County Edit this on Wikidata
DiedOctober 2, 1941 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 95)
Nashville Edit this on Wikidata
Resting placeNashville City Cemetery Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter Edit this on Wikidata
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Octavia Zollicoffer Bond (April 18, 1846 – October 2, 1941) was an American writer, Tennessee folklorist, and genealogist.

Octavia Zollicoffer Bond was born on April 18, 1846 in Gordon's Ferry, Hickman County, Tennessee, the daughter of Confederate General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer and Louisa Pocahontas Gordon Zollicoffer, daughter of Captain John Gordon. She married John Brien Bond.[1]

She served as editor of Southern Women's Magazine from 1913 to 1916.[2] Her short stories include "The Rule that Worked Both Ways," published in the December 1904 issue of The Black Cat, featuring a scientist who invents a ray that makes ghosts visible and turns people into helium.[3]

Octavia Zollicoffer Bond died on 2 October 1941 in Nashville.[4]

Bibliography

  • Old Tales Retold: Or Perils and Adventures of Tennessee Pioneers. Nashville: Smith & Lamar, Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1914.[5]
  • The family chronicle and kinship book of Maclin, Clack, Cocke, Carter, Taylor, Cross, Gordon, and other related American lineages. Nashville: McDaniel Printing Co., 1928.[6]

References

  1. ^ Leonard, John William (1914). Woman's who's who of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. New York, The American Commonwealth Company.
  2. ^ Virkus, Frederick Adams (1932). The handbook of American genealogy. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Chicago, Illinois : Institute of American Genealogy.
  3. ^ Bleiler, Everett Franklin (1990). Science-fiction, the early years : a full description of more than 3,000 science-fiction stories from earliest times to the appearance of the genre magazines in 1930 : with author, title, and motif indexes. Internet Archive. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-416-2.
  4. ^ The Huntsville Times Fri, Oct 03, 1941 ·Page 3
  5. ^ McKissack, Pat (1993). Tennessee trailblazers. Internet Archive. Brentwood, TN : March Media ; Nashville, TN : Distributed by Rutledge Hill Press. ISBN 978-0-9634824-0-2.
  6. ^ R.R. Allen (1969). Tennessee Books, A Preliminary Guide.