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Bones was elected to the Senate in 1876. He was a Republican. Bones married Marietta Matilda Wilkins in 1881 in Washington DC. Their son Thomas Philip was born in 1885 in Webster, South Dakota. Marietta died in Washington DC. on January 1, 1923 at the age of 87 and is buried at the Arlington National Cemetery.