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Leland E. Pound

Born 1940s.

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Son of Raymond Pound and Jessie (Glabe) Pound

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Biography

Over my professional career I have worked as a weekly newspaper editor in Southern California, as a Chief Financial Officer of a public corporation, and as a writing coach, book editor and book publisher and even as a professional genealogist for a short itme.

While I was editor at the Newport Ensign newspaper in Newport Beach, California, we won the California Newspaper Association's award for best weekly newspaper in the state of California three years in a row.

I first started genealogical research in 1967. Since then I have written and published three books, The Glabe Family of Tazewell Co., Illinois, (1969), Hornbuckles in America (800 pages, published 2000) with Murlen Hornbuckle, and Hardings of the Northern Neck of Virginia (first edition 1999, second edition 2022, 400 pages). I have also done extensive research on the Pound (40,000 names in my database) and Sacre families that is not published but will be in the near future.

In 1969 I went to Germany and found the location where my mother's family (half German) originated and traced them back the 1500s in church records and town records.

I have also done major research in the Muir and Bayles families who passed through Loudoun County, Virginia (www.muirfrierkilgorebayles.com), which solved a the long-standing mystery of my ancestor Phebe (Bayles) Muir's origin.

As a member of the Orange County California Genealogical Society in the 1960s I served as the newsletter editor for two or three years.

For almost 30 years, I gave speeches at many Southern California genealogical societies on various genealogical research topics, including German genealogy and research in New England states and in Virginia.

My current focus is on the Harding families of Northumberland County, Virginia. My ancestor was Thomas Harding, who died in 1809 in Rockingham County, North Carolina. My research led me back to Northumberland County, Virginia and it's storied Harding family. I studied the descendants of Thomas Harding and Anne Moseley extensively and found so many problems with the standard source, Mrs. Keach's 1920 article in Tyler's Quarterly, that I went back to the original records and extracted hundreds of them, many not published before, and concluded that much of the then current knowledge about this Harding family was wrong, which led to my two Harding books. I am posting a lot of my research results on WikiTree now and have done so on FamilySearch as well because I want this material to get as wide a distribution as possible. I welcome any comments or thoughts on the family.

I am open to correspondence with anybody about all of these families.

Lee Pound

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J (Wycoff) Head

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posted Mar 06, 2024 by J (Wycoff) Head

Clinton Slayton Jr.

Mr Pound, with regard to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Walker-42707, the Deed O you quote makes little sense, because it cites Elizabeth Walker as "widow of the deceased," and the widow of David Walker was surely Sarah Slayden Walker, not an Elizabeth:

"Be it remembered that we, James Thomas, Mary Pound, James Walker, Archoibald Walker and Willowby Slayton, the heirs and representatives of the Estate of David Walker of Columbia County, together with Elizabeth Walker, widow of the deceased ...." [you wrote] Deed allows Elizabeth Walker free use of the house and 300 acres for her natural life (source: Columbia County, Georgia Deed Book O, page 206) Elizabeth Walker Lowe married her cousin Willoughby Slayden, mentioned as an heir, and she was a daughter, not widow of David Walker. Something is not right there, but I do not have access to those from Lexington KY. Most of those I have at my profiles I have examined at the Georgia Archives.

Who is the deceased? If David Walker (Sr.), this implies that he later married an Elizabeth. I do not believe it was legal to appoint a widow as an administrator unless a will is left, and this is an intestate admin. See https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8635/images/007701591_00169?pId=918602 (requires Ancestry access). If this is David Walker (Sr)'s daughter, she would have been widow Elizabeth Lowe or spouse Elizabeth Slayden by this date.

posted Jun 17, 2021 by Clinton Slayton Jr.
edited Jun 17, 2021 by Clinton Slayton Jr.

Clinton Slayton Jr.

Please see Walker-24336, where I have surmised that David married an Elizabeth after Sarah Slayden, while his dau Elizabeth was still Elizabeth Lowe in his estate, she marrying Willoughby Slayton-1354 only a few months later. Thanks to your posting, I suspect we have added another brick to a wall.

posted Jun 19, 2021 by Clinton Slayton Jr.

Leland Pound

Sorry to take so long answering your note. Elizabeth is mentioned specifically as the widow twice and not as administrator. See this link for the actual original handwritten deed on Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3Q2-P3JR-4?i=370&cat=112848 She is specifically named as "Elizabeth Walker" in the deed. By the way, I have many instances back to the 1600's of a widow being named administrator of the estate of their husband.

posted Feb 18, 2023 by Leland Pound

Clinton Slayton Jr.

Thanks for replying. If a will is left, then of course the widow can be made executor by testator, but I am fairly certain that in Georgia at that time, no court would allow a widow to admin/execute an intestate husband such as David Walker. But since the probate reads a "Eliz^a Walker" as a co-admin, this might be his widow, but that strikes me as irregular.

posted Feb 19, 2023 by Clinton Slayton Jr.
edited Feb 19, 2023 by Clinton Slayton Jr.

Leland Pound

Hi Clinton, This is all interesting but a couple of points. Elizabeth was NOT an administrator of the estate. The deed document makes clear that the administrators were Elisha Walker, David Walker and John W. Smith. Elizabeth is described in the deed twice as the widow of David Walker. The deed says that the heirs and administrators are giving Elizabeth Walker the right to live in the plantation house until her death. This was very common in this time to allow the widow to stay in the house for their lifetime.

I do have some examples of a widow being named administrator of her husband's estate from Virginia, where I am mostly working now. Here area few: From Northumberland County Virginia Court Order book 4 (exact wording):

1675 16 Jun: Page 116-B Upon ye motion of Anne Harding (1-1) ye relict of Thomas Harding (1-1) a comm of admin is granted to the said Anne Harding (1-1), admin of her said deceased husband she giving Caution according to law.

1675 16 Jun: Page 116-B Anne Harding (1-1), James Claughton, and James Johnson doo oblige themselves ye --- bond of sixty thousand pounds of tobacco to ensure ye said Anne Harding (1-1) shall own Administration of ye estate of Thomas Harding (1-1) deceased and that she shall exhibit an inventory thereof until this court.

In both these items Ann Harding is clearly the administrator of her deceased husband Thomas Harding's estate. I know there are other examples of this happening in Virginia and some other states, particularly Tennessee, that I have worked in. This is just the first one that came to mind.

Also common is that a widow and the man she married after husbands death can be made joint administrators. Again I don't know how common that was in Georgia but these two date from as early as the 1670s so it happen quite a lot. at least in Virginia.

1728 Sep: Northumberland County VA Court orders Book 8 Page 310: Elinor Humphries granted administration of William Humphries estate.

1750 10 Dec: Northumberland County VA Book 12 Page 111 On the motion of Hannah Harding (2-4), who made oath according to law, Certificate is granted her for obtaining letters of Administration of the Estate of Thomas Harding (2-4) decd she giving bond and security. Whereupon she together with Chas Coppedge and Edwin Fielding securities. Entered into and acknowledged bond for the due admin of the said estate. Ordered that Robert Angell, David Lattimore, John Berry, and William Berry appraise the estate of Thomas Harding (2-4) decd.

Same County and era:1751 08 Aug: Book 1 Page 19 Martin Hardin (6-3) vs Frances Ball, Administrator of John Ball. It is considered that the said Martin ought to recover against the said Frances four pound and also his goods etc to be levied of the goods and chattles of the said John in the hands of the said Frances unadministered

1861 25 Apr: Book 5 Page 304, Northumberland Ca VA Louisa Harding, bond to become administrator. 1734/5 12 Feb: Lancaster County, Virginia. Page 119 Margaret Denny says William Denny died with no will and is granted administration of his estate.

There are more just in the families I have studied so am sure there are many more.

Lee Pound

posted Feb 20, 2023 by Leland Pound

Clinton Slayton Jr.

I agree that Eliza' is not an admin, but some have misinterpreted the language in other probate records written as "Eliza'h, Elisha and David Walker" has saying so (not saying you did). Thanks for doc'ing some of these widows as admins, but again, I have never seen that allowed in Georgia. I think we are basically on the same page, and I was probably out of line writing "something is not right here."

posted Feb 22, 2023 by Clinton Slayton Jr.

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posted Feb 22, 2020 by Cheryl (Smith) Hess NSDAR

Janet (Langridge) Wild MSc RN

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posted Feb 18, 2020 by Janet (Langridge) Wild MSc RN

Karen (Finnerty) Butler

Welcome Leland

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posted Feb 08, 2020 by Karen (Finnerty) Butler

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