Ancestry of
Ezra Pound

Expatriate American Poet and Critic

Harding Weston

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• • Grandfather of Ezra Pound — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • John Wheeler Weston 
  • Mother:
  • Asenath How   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Jan 1835 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Feb 1927 
  • Death Location:
  • Elizabeth City County, Virginia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Wadsworth Parker
  • Marriage Date:
  • Sep 1858 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Peekskill, Westchester, New York 
  • Child:

  Isabel Weston (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • Civil War veteran - Union Army

    2nd Lt., Co. G, 4th N.Y. Cavalry

    Harding Weston was a resident of the National Soldier's Home in Virginia when he died. He was an ex-newspaperman.

• Sources for Harding Weston

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1860, New York Ward 19 Dist 13, p. 92, Image 92 of 160.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1850, New York Ward 8, Dist. 1, Image 61 of 300.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/18/2020).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Harding Weston.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Newton, Vol. 517, p. 689, Death record for spouse Mary Parker Weston.
  • ⁶ New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909, Birth record for daughter Isabella Weston.
  • ⁷ U.S., Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960, Burial record for Harding Weston.
  • ⁸ Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987, Death certificate for Harding Weston.
  • ⁹ Oxford Dicitonary of National Biography, "Ezra Loomis Pound", (accessed 10/17/2020).
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 177.
  • ¹¹ Wilhelm, James J., The American Roots of Ezra Pound, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (1985), 35-36.