Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pond, Walter M., 1950 

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WALTER MOYLER POND 

Wakefield Farmer Dies of Injuries 

  William Pond, 45, Wakefield farmer died this morning at 11:45 at Lakeview 
Hospital of injuries received yesterday when his arm was caught in a peanut 
picker and broken in several places. 

  The injured man was admitted to the hospital at 8:30 o'clock yesterday 
afternoon. 

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WALTER POND FATALLY INJURED IN PEANUT PICKER ACCIDENT 

  Funeral services for Walter M. Pond, 48, well-known farmer of Surry County, 
who died at Lakeview Hospital, Suffolk, Wednesday morning at 11:45, will be 
conducted at "Oakview" the family home near Wakefield on Friday, Nov. 17 at 
3:00 p.m. Rev. J.L. Blankenship, Jr., will officiate.  Interment will be in 
Rocky Hock Cemetery.

  Mr. Pond died of injuries received Tuesday afternoon when he was caught in 
a peanut picker operating on his farm.  It is thought that he was attempting 
to oil or adjust the picker near the main driving pulley when his sleeve was 
caught and he was flailed against the machine.

  Helpers, hearing his yells, shut off the power and extricated him. 
Unconscious from a fractured skull and with an arm broken in two places, he 
was carried to the house in a small truck and then rushed to the hospital.  He 
never regained full consciousness.  Death was attributed to a fractured skull.

  He was the son of the late Walter Jackson Pond and Sallie Q. Moyler and a 
lifelong resident of Surry County.  He had served as steward in the Rocky Hock 
Methodist Church and as treasurer of the Sunday school for many years.  He was 
Charter member of the Wakefield Ruritan Club and a director of the Bank of 
Sussex and Surry.

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Grace Harris Pond; two foster sons, Steve 
and Raymond Pond; two sisters, Mrs. George L. Munford of Wakefield and Miss 
Dorothy M. Pond of Petersburg; one brother, Robert M. Pond of Wakefield; one 
niece, Miss Anne Moyler Munford, and one nephew, Robert Moyler Pond Jr.

  Active pallbearers will be O.L. Holt, A.L. Presson, B.E. Cowling, Sr., H.E. 
Drewry, Morris Ellis, Sol I. Jenkins, Cordie Andrews, Stanley Cooper, Garland 
Goodrich and E.W. Goodrich.

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Walter M. Pond, 48, Died Nov. 15th In Suffolk Hospital 

  Funeral services for Walter M. Pond, 48, well-known farmer of Surry County, 
who died at Lakeview Hospital November 15, were conducted at Oak View, the 
family home, Friday, at 3 P.M. 

  Mr. Pond died of injuries received Tuesday afternoon, November 14th when he 
was caught in a peanut picker operating on his farm.  It is thought that he 
was attempting to oil or adjust the picker near the main driving pulley when 
his sleeve was caught and he was flailed against the machine. 

  Burial was in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery. 

  He was the son of the late Walter J. and Sallie Q. Moyler Pond, and was a 
steward, in Rocky Hock Church and treasurer of the Sunday School for a great 
many years.  Mr. Pond was a charter member of Wakefield Ruritan Club and a 
director of the Bank of Sussex and Surry. 

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Grace Harris Pond; two foster-sons, Steve 
Pond and Raymond Pond; two sisters. Mrs. George L. Mumford [sic; Munford] of 
Wakefield, and Miss Dorothy M. Pond of Petersburg; a brother, Robert M. Pond, 
of Wakefield; a niece, Anne Boyler Mumford [sic; Moyler Munford], and a 
nephew, Robert M. Pond Jr.; both of Wakefield. 


Walter Moyler POND, farmer & bank director, 
b. 31 Jan 1902, Richmond, 
crushed in peanut picker, 14 Nov 1950, d. 15 Nov 1950, Suffolk, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery*, 17 Nov 1950, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 27, No. 192, Wed., Nov. 15, 1950, p. 1; 
donated obit, publication unknown; 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 33, No. 26, Nov. 22, 1950, p. 5, col. 5 

An obit also appeared in the "Richmond Times-Dispatch," Nov. 16, 1950. 

*Find a Grave Mem. #136980757. 

His parents are also buried there. 

D.Cert. 25156 (Suffolk #323) 

His widow's obit (Purviance Funeral Home, 1989) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p530g2ob.txt 

They m. 2 Sep 1939 in Richmond.  (M.Cert. 26299 {copy}) 


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