Member of the Honey Creek Baptist Church on March 29, 1857.
She eventually left to unite with the St Paris church
Member of the St Paris Rebekah Lodge
In her younger days, she taught in the St Paris public schools
At her death, she left funds to the St Paris First Baptist Church to purchase a Hammond Organ. The organ was purchased & installed in November, 1938
August 28, 1930
Four Score and Ten Years of abundant living! Right in the heart of our flourishing town there lives a grand elderly lady who having passed her 90th birthday is happily facing the coveted goal of a century. For last Monday marked the occasion for the celebration of Mrs Margaret Pond. The occasion was honored with 2 dinners, both the noon and the evening dinners being served by the guests and the table for each party was centered with a decorated cake. She was the recipient of many cards, flowers and gifts. Seated comfortably in an old fashioned chair in the quaint living room of the little house on Plum St, the guest spent a very enjoyable half hour conversing with this vigorous little lady as she mused about various subjects. These are some of the high points of conversation.
"About the young people, well I love them all, I think they are just grand. My first sight of an automobile, well, now it must have belonged to John Kizer but I can't tell you exactly when I did see it, a little after 1900 I guess"
"Up to last May I hadn't missed either Sunday School, Prayer Meeting or a Church Service since I can remember. During my 44 years here in these 2 houses on Plum St, I have seen each of the new improvements - paved streets, electric lights, and now our new water works plant, as each has entered our beautiful little town of St Paris."
And as the conversation ended the guest felt a tinge of yearning for the past as exemplified in the beautiful antiques used in furnishing the house.
1931
Mrs Margaret Pond, who is among the oldest of our residents was born at Christiansburg in 1840. She came to St Paris in March 1885 and has lived on East Plum St in her present home and the house next door west for 46 years. The Ponds were the first people on Plum St to try to improve and beautify their home. The weeds in the street were as high as people's heads and as there were no lawn mowers, Mrs Pond crawled on hands and knees pulling weeds and cut grass with a sickle. In a weeks time her neighbors remarked on the improved appearance of her home and began to clean up also. Mrs Pond has always kept abreast of the times by being a constant reader and close observer. Matters of a public nature have always interested her. Among her greatest pleasures have been found in the Baptist Church of which she is a member and attends worship when possible. The first automobile she ever saw belonged to John W Kizer who brought it here from Chicago. On Centennial Day, Mrs Pond intends to decorate her porch like the did in olden days and dress herself in the garb of the "Old Gray Bonnet" times.
She eventually left to unite with the St Paris church
Member of the St Paris Rebekah Lodge
In her younger days, she taught in the St Paris public schools
At her death, she left funds to the St Paris First Baptist Church to purchase a Hammond Organ. The organ was purchased & installed in November, 1938
August 28, 1930
Four Score and Ten Years of abundant living! Right in the heart of our flourishing town there lives a grand elderly lady who having passed her 90th birthday is happily facing the coveted goal of a century. For last Monday marked the occasion for the celebration of Mrs Margaret Pond. The occasion was honored with 2 dinners, both the noon and the evening dinners being served by the guests and the table for each party was centered with a decorated cake. She was the recipient of many cards, flowers and gifts. Seated comfortably in an old fashioned chair in the quaint living room of the little house on Plum St, the guest spent a very enjoyable half hour conversing with this vigorous little lady as she mused about various subjects. These are some of the high points of conversation.
"About the young people, well I love them all, I think they are just grand. My first sight of an automobile, well, now it must have belonged to John Kizer but I can't tell you exactly when I did see it, a little after 1900 I guess"
"Up to last May I hadn't missed either Sunday School, Prayer Meeting or a Church Service since I can remember. During my 44 years here in these 2 houses on Plum St, I have seen each of the new improvements - paved streets, electric lights, and now our new water works plant, as each has entered our beautiful little town of St Paris."
And as the conversation ended the guest felt a tinge of yearning for the past as exemplified in the beautiful antiques used in furnishing the house.
1931
Mrs Margaret Pond, who is among the oldest of our residents was born at Christiansburg in 1840. She came to St Paris in March 1885 and has lived on East Plum St in her present home and the house next door west for 46 years. The Ponds were the first people on Plum St to try to improve and beautify their home. The weeds in the street were as high as people's heads and as there were no lawn mowers, Mrs Pond crawled on hands and knees pulling weeds and cut grass with a sickle. In a weeks time her neighbors remarked on the improved appearance of her home and began to clean up also. Mrs Pond has always kept abreast of the times by being a constant reader and close observer. Matters of a public nature have always interested her. Among her greatest pleasures have been found in the Baptist Church of which she is a member and attends worship when possible. The first automobile she ever saw belonged to John W Kizer who brought it here from Chicago. On Centennial Day, Mrs Pond intends to decorate her porch like the did in olden days and dress herself in the garb of the "Old Gray Bonnet" times.
Member of the Honey Creek Baptist Church on March 29, 1857.
She eventually left to unite with the St Paris church
Member of the St Paris Rebekah Lodge
In her younger days, she taught in the St Paris public schools
At her death, she left funds to the St Paris First Baptist Church to purchase a Hammond Organ. The organ was purchased & installed in November, 1938
August 28, 1930
Four Score and Ten Years of abundant living! Right in the heart of our flourishing town there lives a grand elderly lady who having passed her 90th birthday is happily facing the coveted goal of a century. For last Monday marked the occasion for the celebration of Mrs Margaret Pond. The occasion was honored with 2 dinners, both the noon and the evening dinners being served by the guests and the table for each party was centered with a decorated cake. She was the recipient of many cards, flowers and gifts. Seated comfortably in an old fashioned chair in the quaint living room of the little house on Plum St, the guest spent a very enjoyable half hour conversing with this vigorous little lady as she mused about various subjects. These are some of the high points of conversation.
"About the young people, well I love them all, I think they are just grand. My first sight of an automobile, well, now it must have belonged to John Kizer but I can't tell you exactly when I did see it, a little after 1900 I guess"
"Up to last May I hadn't missed either Sunday School, Prayer Meeting or a Church Service since I can remember. During my 44 years here in these 2 houses on Plum St, I have seen each of the new improvements - paved streets, electric lights, and now our new water works plant, as each has entered our beautiful little town of St Paris."
And as the conversation ended the guest felt a tinge of yearning for the past as exemplified in the beautiful antiques used in furnishing the house.
1931
Mrs Margaret Pond, who is among the oldest of our residents was born at Christiansburg in 1840. She came to St Paris in March 1885 and has lived on East Plum St in her present home and the house next door west for 46 years. The Ponds were the first people on Plum St to try to improve and beautify their home. The weeds in the street were as high as people's heads and as there were no lawn mowers, Mrs Pond crawled on hands and knees pulling weeds and cut grass with a sickle. In a weeks time her neighbors remarked on the improved appearance of her home and began to clean up also. Mrs Pond has always kept abreast of the times by being a constant reader and close observer. Matters of a public nature have always interested her. Among her greatest pleasures have been found in the Baptist Church of which she is a member and attends worship when possible. The first automobile she ever saw belonged to John W Kizer who brought it here from Chicago. On Centennial Day, Mrs Pond intends to decorate her porch like the did in olden days and dress herself in the garb of the "Old Gray Bonnet" times.
She eventually left to unite with the St Paris church
Member of the St Paris Rebekah Lodge
In her younger days, she taught in the St Paris public schools
At her death, she left funds to the St Paris First Baptist Church to purchase a Hammond Organ. The organ was purchased & installed in November, 1938
August 28, 1930
Four Score and Ten Years of abundant living! Right in the heart of our flourishing town there lives a grand elderly lady who having passed her 90th birthday is happily facing the coveted goal of a century. For last Monday marked the occasion for the celebration of Mrs Margaret Pond. The occasion was honored with 2 dinners, both the noon and the evening dinners being served by the guests and the table for each party was centered with a decorated cake. She was the recipient of many cards, flowers and gifts. Seated comfortably in an old fashioned chair in the quaint living room of the little house on Plum St, the guest spent a very enjoyable half hour conversing with this vigorous little lady as she mused about various subjects. These are some of the high points of conversation.
"About the young people, well I love them all, I think they are just grand. My first sight of an automobile, well, now it must have belonged to John Kizer but I can't tell you exactly when I did see it, a little after 1900 I guess"
"Up to last May I hadn't missed either Sunday School, Prayer Meeting or a Church Service since I can remember. During my 44 years here in these 2 houses on Plum St, I have seen each of the new improvements - paved streets, electric lights, and now our new water works plant, as each has entered our beautiful little town of St Paris."
And as the conversation ended the guest felt a tinge of yearning for the past as exemplified in the beautiful antiques used in furnishing the house.
1931
Mrs Margaret Pond, who is among the oldest of our residents was born at Christiansburg in 1840. She came to St Paris in March 1885 and has lived on East Plum St in her present home and the house next door west for 46 years. The Ponds were the first people on Plum St to try to improve and beautify their home. The weeds in the street were as high as people's heads and as there were no lawn mowers, Mrs Pond crawled on hands and knees pulling weeds and cut grass with a sickle. In a weeks time her neighbors remarked on the improved appearance of her home and began to clean up also. Mrs Pond has always kept abreast of the times by being a constant reader and close observer. Matters of a public nature have always interested her. Among her greatest pleasures have been found in the Baptist Church of which she is a member and attends worship when possible. The first automobile she ever saw belonged to John W Kizer who brought it here from Chicago. On Centennial Day, Mrs Pond intends to decorate her porch like the did in olden days and dress herself in the garb of the "Old Gray Bonnet" times.
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