Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pond, John H., 1887 

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IN HONOR OF: 
   IN MEMORY OF JOHN HAWKINS AND ELIZABETH ELEANOR VICK POND 
   ABOUT PEOPLE NAMES IN THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS OF 
   ROCKY HOCK METHODIST CHURCH 

  John Hawkins Pond (1824-1887) was the second owner of Oakview Farm having 
inherited it from his father, Hawkins Pond.  John Hawkins Pond first married 
Sarah F. Vick from Southampton County.  They had no children.  They were 
married only a few years when she died.  He then married her sister, Elizabeth 
Eleanor Vick Davis, a widow who had lost her husband after only a few years of 
marriage and one child. 

  John Hawkins Pond and Elizabeth had six children.  Only two of those 
children stayed in the area and farmed part of Oakview Plantation.  They were 
John Wesley Pond, the father of Lyle Pond and grandfather of Al, Susan, and 
David Pond, and Walter Jackson Pond, father of Rob Pond, and grandfather of 
Moyler and Dianne Pond. 

  Oakview Plantation consisted of about 2,200 acres (refer to Rocky Hock 
Church bulletin JRA #22, September 1, 2002).  When Rocky Hock Church was 
remodeled in 1876, some of the original church building was reused in a barn 
of Oakview. 

  John and Elizabeth are both buried in Rocky Hock Cemetery.  At this time, 
there are no known pictures that exist of John and Elizabeth Pond. 

  Thanks to Al Pond and Moyler Pond, great grandsons, of John and Elizabeth 
Pond, for this information. 


John Hawkins POND, farmer, 
b. 24 Oct 1824, Southampton Co., d. 15 Jun 1887, "Oakview," Surry Co., 

Elizabeth Eleanor (VICK DAVIS; Mrs. John H.) POND, 
b. 22 May 1836, Southampton Co., d. 21 Feb 1892, "Oakview," Surry Co., 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 40*), 
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. 

John 1m. Sarah F. VICK, 30 Apr 1857. 
   (Southampton Co. M.Reg. p. 4 #24; MB1:44) 

Elizabeth 1m. widower Wilkinson J. DAVIS, 23 Apr 1857. 
   (Southampton Co. M.Reg. p. 4 #26; MB1:44) 
   He 1m. Margaret HARRIS; their m.lic. was granted 13 Dec 1851. 
   (Southampton Co. M.Reg. p. 736; MB1:4) 

John & Elizabeth 2m. 27 Jun 1861. 
   (Southampton Co. M.Reg. p. 11 #27) 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p530j6ob.txt