Pounds Family History & Genealogy

My Mother Katherine Adeline Pounds Repass was born in Knoxville, TN on Aug 26, 1917. Her parents names are unknown because her father apparently died c. 1918 from the Spanish Influenza pandemic leaving behind her mother and older brother John Emmett Pounds b. 1915? Unable to care for her children and meeting another man whom she wanted to marry, she abandoned her two children at a home for orphaned babies on Woodbine Avenue, Knoxville, TN c. 1918-19. She left them both on the porch of the orphanage with a note explaining why she was abandoning them. The note also included birth records and family history. Their family had apparently migrated to America from England, UK. A few years later there was a tragic fire at the "baby" home as it was known. All records were destroyed and only word of mouth recollections of each child were documented. She and her brother became wards of Knox County Tennessee and were transferred to Knox County Industrial Home and School, later renamed John Tarelton Institute. My mother and her sibling remained there until my uncle John Emmett Pounds was adopted leaving my mother behind. He visited several times and around age 16 or so his visits stopped. He wrote my mother and told her he was running away because he was being abused by the "Walker?" family that adopted him. He said they merely wanted him to work on their farm and showed no love towards him. My mother received a picture of him (which I still have) and never heard from him again. A matron at John Tarelton Homes told my mother the family that adopted Emmett, as he was known, said he left with the "Ringling Bros. circus when it came through town. This would have been in the early 1930's. No one wanted to adopt my mother because she had severe asthma and was very sickly. She went on to reside at John Tarelton Homes until her 21st birthday at which time she had to leave on Aug 26, 1938. She was hired by The Sisters of Mercy of Cincinatti to work at their new Knoxville hospital, St. Mary's (1930-2018.) She also cared for retired nuns at the nursing home called Villa Marie on Central Avenue Pike in the Inskip area of Knoxville providing them with general nursing assistant care. She was approached by The Right Reverend Mother Mary Annunciata about conversion into the Catholic faith and becoming a noviciate. After telling them she did not wish to do this, she was asked to leave. She went on to find a job as a seamstress at several Knoxville cotton mills, finally settling in at Standard Knitting Mills on Washington Ave. @ Mitchell St. where she worked making Healthknit underwear for men. Unbeknownst to her about a dozen members of my father's family worked there in some capacity including my father's uncle (my great-uncle) Sidney I. Hankins, Sr. who was President and Superintendent of the mill. My mother met and roomed with a lady named Jess Kerr Loveday, who turned out to be the sister of Rhea Kerr Hankins, who was the wife of William Deadrick Hankins, who was the brother of Sidney I. Hankins. Both gentlemen were uncles to my father Walter Howard Repass who was the fourth son of their sister Lillie Jane Hankins Repass, my grandmother. In 1953, after a divorce from his first wife, my father was visiting his Uncle Deadrick and Aunt Rhea at their home on Luttrell. St. In Knoxville's 4th & Gill neighborhood. My mother was helping my great-Aunt Rhea wax her kitchen floor when my father arrived. She had met them through Rhea's sister Jess who roomed with my mother. Mom was 35 and very single at the time. My father obviously noticed the thinly built, blonde lady working very hard on the kitchen floor. She had (caught his eye, so to speak.) He asked who she was and great-Aunt Rhea said, " Oh, that's just Adeline. She lives across the street with my sister Jess and works at the Standard Mills." That was the beginning of a great romance. Within a few months, on August 1, 1953, my mother Adeline Pounds became Mrs. Walter H. Repass. I came along as their only child on October 12, 1955. (Dad had a daughter Phyllis from his first marriage.) The rest is history. Their marriage lasted until my father's death from complications of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 5, 1989. My mother, Adeline followed him to the grave on June 11, 1996 from C.O.P.D. Her years of asthma, pneumonia, and second-hand smoke severly damaged her lungs even though she never smoked. I am Walter Deaderick Repass. Yes, I am named for my father Walter and my great-uncle Deadrick. I have an "e" in my Deaderick that was put in my birth certificate by none other than Rev. Sister Annunciata who was Administrator of St. Mary's Hospital where I was born. She personally signed my birth certificate for her friend Katherine Adeline Pounds Repass.

Robert D Pounds of Cordele, Crisp County, GA was born on February 15, 1923, and died at age 72 years old on March 12, 1995.

Lucille Meredith died in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lucille (Pounds) Meredith .

Roxy Ann Pounds of Ventura, Ventura County, California was born on July 25, 1945, and died at age 61 years old on September 1, 2006.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Kasey Corbin Pounds.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ida Mae Bray.

Charles W Pounds of Water Valley, Graves County, KY was born on December 13, 1925, and died at age 75 years old on February 8, 2001.

Roxton Gwynne Pounds was born to Albert Elmer Pounds (1880-1956) and Pearl Margaret Bradley (1881-1934) and had brothers Edward H. (1905-1988) and Kenneth Louis. He married Emma Josephine Suchan (1910-2008) and they had children Kenneth Louis Pounds (1932-1938), Roxy Ann Pounds (1945-2006), Janice Carol Pounds and three others. He lived in 1952 on 10757 Camarillo St in Los Angeles California and was a registered Republican. There is a divorce record between Roxton and Alic G. on October 7th 1980.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember DE'Niena Rnay (Niena) Pounds.

Claud E Pounds of Cuba, Crawford County, MO was born on February 25, 1916, and died at age 74 years old on September 18, 1990.

Edith Pounds of Sanford, Seminole County, FL was born on November 18, 1910, and died at age 76 years old in December 1986.

Claire Pounds was born on July 14, 1926, and died at age 60 years old in June 1987. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Claire Pounds.

Harriette L Pounds of Wethersfield, Hartford County, CT was born on August 6, 1929, and died at age 78 years old on February 6, 2008.

Jeffrey C Pounds of Hartford, Hartford County, CT was born on August 12, 1955, and died at age 53 years old on July 11, 2009.

Belma Pounds was born on February 1, 1902, and died at age 89 years old on August 8, 1991. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Belma Pounds.

Ralph Howard Pounds of Baltimore, Baltimore City County, MD was born on September 14, 1924, and died at age 84 years old on April 7, 2009. Ralph Pounds was buried at Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery Section 13_1 Row 1 Site COL 11301 Crain Highway, in Cheltenham.

Jean B Pounds of Cabazon, Riverside County, CA was born on July 13, 1923, and died at age 69 years old on February 27, 1993.

Jean M Pounds was born on April 1, 1944, and died at age 54 years old on March 2, 1999. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jean M Pounds.

Angela D Pounds of Pensacola, Escambia County, FL was born on September 6, 1915, and died at age 84 years old on July 2, 2000. Angela Pounds was buried at Barrancas National Cemetery Section 30 Site 24-A Naval Air Station, 1 Cemetery Road, in Pensacola.

Charles Pounds of Hartford, Hartford County, CT was born on April 15, 1925, and died at age 79 years old on September 14, 2004.