Payette Enterprise
Thursday, August 21, 1930
POUNDER, ELIJAH
OBITUARY
Mr. Elijah Pounder was born in Minnesota, May 12, 1863 and died August 14, 1930 at Jonesboro, Oregon, where he was staying with his son, Arvin. He leaves his wife and son, Arvin and two step sons and one step daughter, Owen Bird, Henry Bird, and Elizabeth Tailor all of California. One sister, Magie Peters, a brother Tommy Jobes, of Minnesota.
Mr. Pounder came to Payette in 1908. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen and a member of the Church of God.
Funeral services were held at the Peterson funeral parlor Monday afternoon conducted by Rev. N. H. Farnham assisted by Rev. T. A. Wayne. A quartette from the Pentecostal church sang some beautiful selections. Burial was in Riverside cemetery.
