CRAFT Ronald Evans

Harry married BESS Lena Mabel WFT est 1923-1948. Lena (daughter of BESS George Washington and POND Emma Lee) was born on 2 Jan 1910 in Alleghany County, Virginia; died on 2 Oct 1977 in Alleghany County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The marriage record of George W. Bess indicates he was a Railroad Firemen.

George married POND Emma Lee on 17 Nov 1899 (Unknown) in Low Moor, Alleghany Co., Virginia. Emma (daughter of POND Magnes Walton and THOMPSON Julia B.) was born on 1 Sep 1882 in Alleghany County, Virginia; died on 7 Feb 1969 in Roanoke, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emma played the banjo and chewed Apple Cut tobacco. She liked her beer and could keep up with the best of them. She is buried in Sunrise Cemetery, Low Moor, Alleghany County Virginia. This information was provided by her grandaughter Mary Boswell of Hot Springs, Virginia in February 1999.

Notes:

Married:
Emma and George were married by S. F. Chapman a minister of Allegheny Co., Virginia.

Facts about this marriage:

Unknown-Ending November 17, 1899 License issued by J. J. Hobbs clerk of county court, Alleghany Co., Va.

Notes:

The marriage bond of Magnes W. Pond and M. F. Bowman indicate he was a widower.
* Magnes W. Pond enlisted in the Manchester Light Artillery, 6th Regiment Virginia Volunteers as a Private on May 1, 1861 in Richmond Virginia. The unit moved to Servell's Point for training and his brother Atlas joined the unit on May 14, 1861. The unit was redesignated Company I, 16th Regiment, Virginia Infantry. The unit was reorganized as an Independent Company in May, 1862. After the Battle of Fredericksburg in which his brother Atlas was killed the unit was disbanded and the men assigned to the Courtney Artillery. Magnus was assigned to Captain William A. Tanner's Company L, Artillery, Jones's Battalion and later Cutshaw's Battalion. From the middle of 1863 until the end of the War he is listed as Absent on detached service. He was paroled on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox as a Private in the Staunton Artillery, Cutshaw's Battalion, Army of Northern Virginia. Source: National Archives Microcopy 253, roll 382; consolidated index to compiled service records of Confederate Soldiers Plymall-Poogstardt. * This is the only Pond family listed on the 1880 Federal Census records for Allegheny County, Virginia. The 1870 Va. census show a Magnes Pond residing in Chesterfield County, Va. According to the 1880 census he would have been born around 1835. Magnus would have relocated his family from Staunton City, Virgina to Clifton Forge, Virignia between his son Robert W. Pond's birth on July 11, 1879 and June 5th 1880 when the census for Clifton Forge City was taken. * Magnus was listed as employed by the Railroad, on the Allegheny Co., Va. birth register for Emma L. Pond 1882. * Magnes is listed as a Overhauler by trade on the Allegheny Co., Va. birth register for Texanna in 1884 and an unnamed female in 1885. * Magnus used his initials M. W. on most of the records that I have found. There is a small cement marker with the initials M. W. laying in the family plot of Edward Pond in Crown Hill Cemetery, Clifton Forge, Va. None of the graves are marked however we know that Edward's first wife is buried there according to his grandson Harry Pond Jr. of Charlottesville, Va. Jerry R. Pond, Sr. January 1998 [Bulls, Buhls & Thornton Family.FTW]

[John and Judith Pond Descendants.FTW]

The marriage bond of Magnes W. Pond and M. F. Bowman indicate he was a widower. * Magnes W. Pond enlisted in the Manchester Light Artillery, 6th Regiment Virginia Volunteers as a Private on May 1, 1861 in Richmond Virginia. The unit moved to Servell's Point for training and his brother Atlas joined the unit on May 14, 1861. The unit was redesignated Company I, 16th Regiment, Virginia Infantry. The unit was reorganized as an Independent Company in May, 1862. After the Battle of Fredericksburg in which his brother Atlas was killed the unit was disbanded and the men assigned to the Courtney Artillery. Magnus was assigned to Captain William A. Tanner's Company L, Artillery, Jones's Battalion and later Cutshaw's Battalion. From the middle of 1863 until the end of the War he is listed as Absent on detached service. He was paroled on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox as a Private in the Staunton Artillery, Cutshaw's Battalion, Army of Northern Virginia. Source: National Archives Microcopy 253, roll 382; consolidated index to compiled service records of Confederate Soldiers Plymall-Poogstardt. * This is the only Pond family listed on the 1880 Federal Census records for Allegheny County, Virginia. The 1870 Va. census show a Magnes Pond residing in Chesterfield County, Va. According to the 1880 census he would have been born around 1835. Magnus would have relocated his family from Staunton City, Virgina to Clifton Forge, Virignia between his son Robert W. Pond's birth on July 11, 1879 and June 5th 1880 when the census for Clifton Forge City was taken. * Magnus was listed as employed by the Railroad, on the Allegheny Co., Va. birth register for Emma L. Pond 1882. * Magnes is listed as a Overhauler by trade on the Allegheny Co., Va. birth register for Texanna in 1884 and an unnamed female in 1885. * Magnus used his initials M. W. on most of the records that I have found. There is a small cement marker with the initials M. W. laying in the family plot of Edward Pond in Crown Hill Cemetery, Clifton Forge, Va. None of the graves are marked however we know that Edward's first wife is buried there according to his grandson Harry Pond Jr. of Charlottesville, Va. Jerry R. Pond, Sr. January 1998


Facts about this person:

Burial Possibly Crown Hill Cemetery, Clifton Forge, Virginia

Source: John and Judith Pond Descendants.FTW Medium: Other Date of Import: Oct 1, 2001

Source: Bulls, Buhls & Thornton Family.FTW Medium: Other Date of Import: Oct 8, 2001

Magnes married THOMPSON Julia B. before 1870 (Unknown). Julia was born in 1842 in Halifax County, Virginia; died between 1885 and 1900 in Alleghany County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The funeral record for Robert W. Pond, Sr list his fathers birth place as Halifax County, Virginia but we know that he was born in Sussex County, Virginia. It is believed that his wife Judy may have been born in Halifax County, Virginia.[Bulls, Buhls & Thornton Family.FTW]

[John and Judith Pond Descendants.FTW]

The funeral record for Robert W. Pond, Sr list his fathers birth place as Halifax County, Virginia but we know that he was born in Sussex County, Virginia. It is believed that his wife Judy may have been born in Halifax County, Virginia.

Facts about this person:

Burial Possibly Crown Hill Cemetery, Clifton Forge, Virginia

Source: John and Judith Pond Descendants.FTW Medium: Other Date of Import: Oct 1, 2001

Source: Bulls, Buhls & Thornton Family.FTW Medium: Other Date of Import: Oct 8, 2001