Thomas Pound, II

• Son of John Pound and Sarah Martin
• He married Sarah Kester and they had at least 11 children. He died within hours of hearing that his wife had died.

Married

• Married: Sarah Kester, on February 2, 1786 in Cumberland, Allegany, Md. United States

History

Thomas Pound, a son of John and Sarah (Martin) Pound, was born in Middlesex County, New Jersey, July 28, 1767, died February 2, 1848, and is buried at the Second Prairie Creek Cemetery, Vigo County, Indiana. He moved to Maryland with his parents and shortly after his marriage migrated from near Cumberland, that State, to Nelson County, Kentucky, by way of the Ohio River on a flat boat, arriving there in April, 1786 (see account of trip Appendix III.). He lived in Nelson County for a few years and then moved to the adjoining County of Shelby, now Spencer County, near Elk Creek, and in 1801 to Butler County, Ohio, on the "Miami Bottoms," and in November, 1816, to Vigo County, Indiana, near Prairie Creek, where he resided until his death. He was married in Maryland in 1786 to Sarah Kester, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Lacock) Kester, who was born June 24, 1767, and died February 2, 1848, a few hours before her husband passed away, both dying on the same day and being buried in the same grave. Their eleven children, whose family records are given on the subsequent pages, are as follows:

Children

• 1. John Pound, born in 1787 and died in infancy or when young.
• 2. Nancy Pound, born May 9, 1788, died September 9, 1862, married Benjamin Kercheval.
• 3. William Pound, born in June, 1790, died in July, 1870, married Elizabeth Anderson.
• 4. Rebecca Pound, born Spring of 1792, died September 4, 1850, married Hamilton Reed.
• 5. Eunice Pound, born August 3, 1796, died May 18, 1876, married Daniel Goble.
• 6. Sarah Pound, born March 8, 1799, died January 30, 1875, married Elijah Thomas.
• 7. Elijah Pound, born September 19, 1801. died October 7, 1879, married Lydia Drake.
• 8. Joseph Pound, born April 10, 1804, died March 18. 1868, married Perlina Elliott, and Ann Elizabeth Drake.
• 9. Melissa Pound, born in 1805. died May 12, 1848, married James French.
• 10. Thomas Poinui, born May 21, 1812, died March 13, 1897, married Nancy Carr and Francis White Elliott.
• 11. Elizabeth Pound, born in 1813, died June 4, 1833, married Ephraim Sparks.

Sources

• The Pound and Kester families: containing an account of the ancestry of John Pound (born in 1735) and William Kester (born in 1733) and a genealogical record of all their descendants and other family historical matter", Regan Printing House, 1904, pp 81 -82