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.

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JOHN WESLEY AND EVA EDWARDS POND - Memorial Bulletin 

  John Wesley Pond (1868 - 1955) was born "Oak View" plantation in Surry 
County, and was the son of John Hawkins and Elizabeth Vick Pond.  He married 
Eva Edwards Pond (1873-1947), also of Surry County, in 1897.  They had four 
children - Lyle, Eleanor, Clarence, and Wesley (died in infancy).  John Wesley 
was a graduate of VMI, and upon graduation he taught in the public and private 
schools for several years.  Later he was a construction engineer for the 
Yadkin Railroad in North Carolina before returned to Surry County to establish 
his home on part of "Oak View."  Upon his return, he became very active in his 
community and his church.  He served as a member of the Surry County School 
Board and a member of Rocky Hock Church, serving as superintendent of the 
Sunday school for 15 years, and as a Trustee and Steward of the church for 
over 50 years. 

  They were the parents of Lyle Pond who resided in the home where Terry and 
Roger Vander Vennet live today.  John and Eva are both buried in Rocky Hock 
Cemetery. 

  Thanks to Al Pond (grandson) for the pictures and information. 


John Wesley POND, farmer, former teacher, 
b. 22 Feb 1869, "Oakview," Surry Co., d. 20 Feb 1955, Surry Co., 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 40*), 22 Feb 1955, 
donated obit; 
Rocky Hock Church bulletin 

*Rocky Hock list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/cemeteries/rockyhk.txt 

His parents are buried in the same plot. 

A photo of his gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #20602707. 

D.Cert. 4925 (Blackwater #3) 

His wife's obits ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," July 10, 1947, p. 15, 
   & donated) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p530e3ob.txt 

A Rocky Hock Church memorial to his parents is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p530j6ob.txt 


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