Surry-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pond, R. Lee, 1903 

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ROBERT LEE POND 

            Lee R. Pond 
   (Special to The Times-Dispatch) 

  WAKEFIELD, VA., July 20. - Mr. R. Lee Pond, one of the leading merchants 
in this place, died here from typhoid fever.  The interment will take place 
at Roca [sic; Rocky] Hock Cemetery. 

  Mr. Pond was highly estimated by every one with whom he came in contact. 
He leaves a wife and two small children. 


Robert Lee POND, Wakefield merchant, 
b. 26 Oct 1862, d. 20 Jul 1903, Wakefield, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery*, 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," July 21, 1903, p. 9, col. 6 

*Find a Grave Mem. #23402845. 

He has a memorial window in Rocky Hock Church. 

Note from family: At the time of R. Lee Pond's death, his wife, Jessie Lee 
Councill Pond, was eight months pregnant with their fourth child (one child 
had died at birth four years earlier).  Robert Lee had asked his best friend 
and business partner, Jeb Stuart White, to look after his family if he should 
die.  Jeb said he would and he died.  Six years following Lee Pond's death, 
Jeb married Jessie and they had two children.

Lee Pond and Jeb White's place of business was the corner brick building 
adjoining what was Jim Renney’s law office.

At Jessie's death, she was buried at Rocky Hock cemetery beside her first 
husband.  (Find a Grave Mem. #20584814) 

Thanks to Mike Eggleston and Clara Rogers for this information.

Jeb & his mother are buried in Wakefield Cemetery. 
   Wakefield list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

Jeb & Jessie appear in the 1910 Census in Wakefield with "daughter-in-law" 
   Miriam L., 12, "son-in-law" Robert L., 8, & "son-in-law" Lee C.D., 6. 


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

file at: 
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