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Ezra Pound

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Elijah Pound

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• • Great-grandfather of Ezra Pound — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Elijah Pound 
  • Mother:
  • Isabella Sharp   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 May 1799 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Feb 1891 
  • Death Location:
  • Chippewa County, Wisconsin 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Hill Cemetery, Chippewa Falls, Chippewa, Wisconsin 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Judith Coleman
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1826 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Albert E. Pound

  Thaddeus Coleman Pound (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • Published sources give Elijah Pound's birth year as 1802. His tombstone has 1799.

• Additional marriages for Elijah Pound

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  • Spouse:
  • Minerva - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 25 Jul 1850

• Sources for Elijah Pound

  • ¹ Federal Census, WI, Walworth County, 1850, East Troy, Image 6 of 32.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/17/2020).
  • ³ Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998, Death record for son Thaddeus Pound.
  • ⁴ Wisconsin Death Index, 1820-1907, Death record for Elijah Pound.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 176.
  • ⁶ Shotwell, Ambrose M., Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants, or, Our Quaker Forefathers and Their Prosperity, Lansing, Michigan: Robert Smith and Co., Printers and Binders (1895), 9, gives Elijah's birth year as 1802.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Thaddeus C. Pound", (accessed 10/17/2020).
  • ⁸ Wilhelm, James J., The American Roots of Ezra Pound, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (1985), 13.