Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pond, John W., 1955 

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JOHN WESLEY POND 

ONE OF OLDEST SURRY CITIZENS LAID TO REST 

  Funeral services for John W. Pond, 86, were held Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 2 p.m. 
at the residence, with burial in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery.  The 
Rev. L.P. Bland officiated and was assisted by Rev. Benjamin B. Bland, of 
Laurel Methodist Church of Varina.  The choir of Rocky Hock furnished the 
music.

  Active pallbearers were O.L. Holt, Arthur L. Presson, Howard E. Drewry, Jr., 
Ernest W. Goodrich, B.E. Cowling, Sr., Dr. R.B. McEwen, J. Franklin White, and 
Paul W. Rogers. Honorary pallbearers were friends of the family.

  Mr. Pond, one of Surry’s oldest citizens, was born March 29, 1869, at 
"Oak View," Surry County, the son of John Hawkins Pond and Elizabeth Vick 
Pond.  He was a brother of the late Charles A. and Walter J. Pond, of Surry 
County, Mrs. G.A. Harris, of Suffolk, Mrs. L.J. Bain, of Capron, and Mrs. 
Sarah Hargrave Carroll, of Wakefield.

  He was a graduate of Suffolk Military Academy and of Virginia Military 
Institute, Class of 1889.  For a short period, he was a construction engineer 
for the Yadkin Railroad at Salisbury, N.C.  After teaching in Sussex County 
and at Bowling Green Academy in Bowling Green, Va., he returned to the farm 
where he spent the rest of his life.

  He was a former member of the Surry County School Board, and active in 
church work, serving as superintendent of Rocky Hock Sunday School for 15 
years and as trustee and steward of the church for over 50 years.

  His wife, the former Eva Elmyra Edwards, of Surry County, died in 1947.  Of 
this union, there survives one daughter, Miss Eleanor R. Pond, of Hopewell; 
two sons, Lyle H. Pond, of Wakefield, and Clarence E. Pond, of Roanoke; three 
grandchildren, one great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.


John Wesley POND, farmer, former teacher, 
b. 22 Feb 1869, "Oak View," Surry Co., d. 20 Feb 1955, Surry Co., 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery*, 22 Feb 1955, 
donated obit 

*Find a Grave Mem. #20602707. 

His parents are also buried there. 

D.Cert. 4925 (Blackwater #3) 

His wife's (donated) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p530e3ob.txt 


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