SERVICES FOR MRS. POUND, 83, TODAY

Came to Blair Year City Was Founded. Lived Here 78 Years

Mrs. M. R. Pound died at the Clarkson hospital in Omaha last Monday, November 17. With her passing the chapter closes on those who came here the year the town was founded in 1869.

She was born in Rome, Georgia August 21, 1864, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Stockton. When she was a child the father died and the mother married Wm. Kelley. For years Mr. and Mrs. Kelley had charge of what was then termed the Kelley House which was a freight depot, passenger depot and a hotel combined. The building stood just such of the present electric light plant. Here the deceased grew to womanhood.

On November 7, 1890 she was married to A. O. Pound and to them three children were born, one died in infancy. A son, Kenneth, and a daughter, Mrs. Hugh Cook, both of Blair, survive besides four stepdaughters, Mrs. Ed. F. Cook of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; Mrs. W. J. Cook, and Mrs. D. Z. Mummert of Blair; and Mrs. Alice Newton of Ponca City, Oklahoma, also a number of grandchildren and one great grandchild, and a step brother, George W. Kelley of Toronto, Canada.

Mrs. Pound was a lady of refinement and culture and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew here. With her passing goes much of the early history of Blair and the last of those early settlers who saw Blair grow from its infancy to what it now is.

Funeral service under the auspices of the Fick Funeral Home is being held at 3:30 this Thursday afternoon at the St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, and interment is being made in the Blair cemetery.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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