Mary Cornelia Pond

Mary Cornelia Jones

• FamilySearch Family Tree
• Birth: Mar 25 1834 - Liberty, Georgia, United States
• Death: May 13 1902 - Georgia, United States
• Parents: William Jones, Mary Jane Jones (born Robarts)
• Husband: Thomas Goulding Pond

Children:

1. Anne Jones Pond
2. Eloise Thomas Slappey (born Pond)
3. Mary Hayes Jones (born Pond)
4. Alice Goulding Pond
5. Thomas Asa Pond
6. Lucy Tullulah Pond
7. Mary F Pond

   ---

William Jones’ daughter, Cornelia Jones Pond, born in 1834, wrote a memoir of her life in which she named specific enslaved people and described them.

The Cornelia Jones Pond memoir is from a genre of slaveholder memoirs written after the Civil War and looking back with nostalgia. They are sentimental, whitewashed, and biased, but individual facts in the memoirs can be useful. In this case, Pond mentioned and told stories about the enslaved people she grew up among. The stories are entirely from her own biased perspective, but still place the people in a place and time.

---

References

1. List of Enslaved People Belonging to William Jones (1802-1885) Research by Stacy Ashmore Cole Updated: 5/7/2021 < link >
2. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:2MJW-313
3. Mehaffey, Karen Rae (1999) "A Confederate Dame: Cornelia Jones Pond's Reminiscence Captures A Vanished Grandeur," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 1 : Iss. 1 . DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.1.1.1 Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol1/iss1/1
4. "Recollections of a Southern Daughter. A Memoir by Cornelia Jones Pond of Liberty County.” Edited by Lucinda H. MacKethan University of Georgia Press Southern Cultures 7, no. 2 (2001): 119. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed February 27, 2024). < link >
5. Recollections of a Southern Daughter: A Memoir by Cornelia Jones Pond of Liberty County. By Cornelia Jones Pond. < GoogleBooks > Introduction (document attached)