Hon. W. G. Pond, farmer, stock-dealer and merchant in Fountain Head, Sumner County, was born there in 1883 [sic, 1838?]. He is one of seven children of Richard and Ann M. (Guthrie) Pond. The father, of Scotch-Irish origin, was born in Robertson County in 1808. For thirty years he was justice of the peace where he lived. After 1830 he lived in Sumner County until his death in 1879. The mother, also of Scotch-Irish blood, was born in Sumner County in 1815, and died in 1862. With common school advantages our subject engaged in merchandising at twenty years of age. In 1857 he married Nannie J., daughter of Thornton and Fannie Lain, and born in 1839 in Wilson County. Their four children are W. G., clerk in his father's store; C. Y., farmer; Fannie A., wife of W. F. Butler, and John L., farmer. In January, 1882, his wife died. In May, 1883, he married Mrs. M. J. Brown, daughter of G. B. and Mary G. Harris, and born in Sumner County in 1835. Enlisting in Company E, Thirtieth Tennessee Regiment as private, in 1861, he was soon made first lieutenant, and then assistant commissary with the rank of captain; captured at Fort Donelson, he was imprisoned at Johnson's Island six months, and then exchanged at Vicksburg, Miss. After following the flag until it went down he was paroled at Jonesboro, N.C., in 1865, and came back to his native county penniless and began merchandising. Always a Democrat, he represented Sumner County in the Lower House in 1874. He is a Mason, and his wife is a member of the Christian Church, while his children, Willie and Fannie, are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Pond has been so successful as to acquire 600 acres of fine land, and a good business worth about $40,000.