Bios:  Pounds Family,  Indiana Co, PA

SUBJECT: POUNDS Family
SUBMITTER: E.K. Warner
EMAIL: wgene@twd.net
DATE: Jan 28, 1999
SURNAMES: Blacklar, Coad, Collier, Cannon, Drummond, Henderson, Miller,
Pound, Rapine, Tichinger
as recorded by Prof. J. T. Stewart in “Indiana County, Pennsylvania ~ Her
People, Past and Present”
Published by J. H. Beers & Co., 1913                    Transcribed by
E.K. Warner, Jan. ‘99

JOHN FRANKLIN POUNDS, a representative of an old family of Indiana County, 
is a well-known school teacher and farmer of Center township,  and his
family is one of the best known in western Pennsylvania. 
According to family tradition the founder of this family in  America was
Thomas Pound, of Saxon or Scandinavian parentage, from North Holland or
Denmark, who came over in 1635, at the age of twenty-one years. He made
the voyage from Amsterdam, Holland,  to London, England, and from there
to the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, where he married a daughter of
one of the Pilgrims.

One of his.descendants, Adonijah Pound, resided in Tarrytown,  Westchester
Co., N. Y., and lost his life in the Revolutionary war. He married Hannah
Collier, who is supposed to have been a sister of Thomas Collier and Sarah
(Collier) Harper, and a  direct descendant of William Collier, a London
merchant who came  to Plymouth Colony in 1633 and was assistant governor
for thirty  years.

Joseph Pound (or Pounds), son of Adonijah and Hannah (Collier) Pound, was
born in 1750 and died April 4, 1813. His wife, Sarah (Tichinger), born
in 1757, died April 8, 1813, four days after  her husband. She was a sister
of Dr. Thomas Tichinger and Rachel (Tichinger) Collier, wife of Thomas
Collier. By this union there  were six children: Stephen, born in 1777,
who married Catharine  Stiffitch; Sarah; Hannah; Eunice, who married John
Eggen, of  Hardin county, Ky.; Elsie, who married Thomas McIntyre, of 
Armstrong county, Pa.; and Joseph. Joseph Pound, the father, was  a soldier
in the Revolutionary war, and at its close the family  moved from Basking
Ridge, Morris (now Somerset) Co., N. J., to  Derry township, Westmoreland
Co., Pa., locating near the Salem  Presbyterian Church, of which they became
members. Later they  located on Tunnel Hill.

Joseph Pounds, youngest son of Joseph and Sarah (Tichinger)  Pounds, was
born in Derry township, Westmoreland county, Dec.  21, 1795, and made his
home in that county. Early in life he  boated salt from the Conemaugh river
to Cincinnati, Ohio. His  later years were spent in farming in Derry township.
He was a  strong Democrat of the old type. For over seventy years a member 
of the Salem Church, he declined to hold any church office. He  died Oct.
2, 1881. Mr. Pound married Mary Drummond, who was born  in 1807 and died
March 26, 1845. Her grandparents, William and Ellen (Cannon) Drummond,
came from Scotland in 1740, and he took  an active part in the Revolutionary
war, in which he was  wounded, dying of his injuries. Her father, John
Drummond, born  in 1763, died in 1843. He came to western Pennsylvania
in 1785  and settled in Westmoreland county and was among the founders
of  the old historic Salem Presbyterian Church. He married Mary  Bullman.
Joseph and Mary (Drummond) Pounds had a family of nine  children, namely
: Joseph, born May 12, 1830, is mentioned  below; Mary, born Sept. 9, 1831,
died July 16, 1832; Sarah, born  May 11, 1833, married Alexander McCurdy;
John D., born Dec. 13,  1834, lived on the old homestead on Tunnel Hill
and was a  soldier in the Civil war; Ellen, born Sept. 18,1836, married 
John Drummond; Hannah,h, born March 10, 1838, resided on the old  homestead
at Tunnel Hill; Mary, born Dec. 21, 1839, died Jan.  15, 1889; Stephen
C. was born July 25, 1841; William, born April  6, 1844, died Oct. 19,
1876.

Joseph Pounds, son of Joseph and Mary (Drummond) Pounds, born  May 12,
1830, on the farm in Derry township, Westmoreland  county, passed his early
life there and became engaged in  farming. After the Civil war he came
to Indiana county, locating  in Center township, where he bought 207 acres
known as the  Gibson farm. Settling on that place he entered into general 
farming and stock raising, making a specialty of raising sheep, with which
he was quite successful. In time he became one of the  most prosperous
farmers in that section of Indiana county. He died on the homestead Nov.
23, 1899, at the age of sixty-nine  years, and was buried in Bethel Church
cemetery in Center  township. He was a leading member of Bethel Church,
was elected  elder of same, and was a strong supporter of temperance, eventually
associating himself with the Prohibition party. For a  number of years
he was a Democrat. Mr. Pounds was married three  times. His first wife,
Jane Robbins, daughter of Daniel and  Nancy (Reynolds) Robbins, of White
township, died in Center  township April 5, 1865, aged thirty-three years,
twenty-three  days. She was buried in Bethel Church cemetery. She became
the  mother of three children : Mary A., who married J. S. Johnston, who
resides at Premont, Texas; Daniel R., who resides in  Elliston, Mont.;
and Jennie, married to George Pearson, of Corning, N. Y. Mr. Pounds married
(second) Mrs. Julia A. (Wilson) Henderson, daughter of Daniel and Littie
(Henderson) Wilson, and widow of William Henderson. She died March 11,
1872,  aged twenty-nine years, twenty-seven days, and was buried  in~Bethel
Church cemetery. There were three children by this  union: William, now
of Blairsville, who married Maud Rapine, of Center township; Lizzie Ella,
who died Aug. 4, 1870, aged fifteen months; and Nettie M., wife of Robert
Roof, living in  Buffalo, N. Y, Mr. Pounds, third marriage was to Ellen
Coad, of Livermore, Westmoreland county, daughter of Henry and Diana (Blacklar)
Coad, the latter from Kent, England. Mrs. Pounds is  still living at Livermore.
She is the mother of three children:  John Franklin; Harry S., a farmer
on the original homestead in  Derry township, Westmoreland county; and
Joseph,' who is  assistant postmaster at Vandergrift.

John Franklin Pounds, eldest son of Joseph and Ellen (Coed)  Pounds, was
born Jan. 16, 1875, on his father's farm in Center  township, and attended
public school there. Later he attended  select school at Homer City, and
the State normal school at  Indiana, after which he took up the profession
of school  teaching, which he followed successfully for eight years in 
Center township. For the most part, he was in the Risinger, Lowry, Adair
and Myer Schools. After the death of his father he took up farming on the
homestead, where he has been engaged in farming and dairying ever since,
employing the most up-to-date  methods in his work. He has made many improvements
on his  property, which now consists of 215 acres. Mr. Pounds has a home
in the borough of Indiana, where he spends the winters. He served his township
as school director, and is a prominent  member of the Prohibition party
in his locality, having been a candidate for the office of prothonotary
of Indiana county on  that ticket. He is a leading member of the Bethel
Presbyterian Church in Center township and has filled the office of elder
for  several years, also acting as trustee, Sunday school teacher and 
superintendent of the Sunday school. He has taken special  interest in
Sunday school work and was the organizer of the county Sunday school association
which has been divided into  seven divisions, and is president of the Indiana
district, including White, Washington and Rayne townships. He is a teacher 
of the first division, having taken a training course in that  work for
a year and a half, in a class of twenty-five. He is devoted to all work
pertaining to the church.

On April 2, 1900, Mr. Pounds married Lillian B. Miller, daughter  of John
I. and Mary (Keener) Miller, and they have three  children: Irwin E., Hellen
Miller, and John Donald.





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