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. 

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ROBERT LEE POND 

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. 


Robert Lee POND, Wakefield merchant, 
b. 26 Oct 1862, Sussex Co., d. 20 Jul 1903, Wakefield, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 36A*), 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," July 21, 1903, p. 9, col. 6; 
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 

A photo of his gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #23402845. 

He has a memorial window in Rocky Hock Church. 

Jessie's obits ("Richmond Times-Dispatch" & "Tidewater News," July 1949) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/w300j11o.txt 

Jeb & his mother are buried in Wakefield Cemetery. 
   Wakefield list, another extension of the 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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