Stillman POND

                   History of Stillman Pond by Leon Y. Pond
Records in Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah
Cemetery Records in Richmond, Utah
Ensign Magazine, May, 1979, pp. 54-55, Conference talk by Elder James E. Faust
Was early convert to Church, member of Second Quorum of Seventy in Nauvoo.
Driven from Nauvoo in September 1846.  Lost wife Maria Davis Pond and nine
children crossing plains.  Became an outstanding colonizer in Utah.  Became the
senior president of the 35th Quorum of Seventy.
"He was a fine, honorable, hard-working man, both as a farmer and as a
merchant.  (Daughter) Frances (Maria Russell Pond Huff) always said he was a
good father, providing well for them, that they always had as good as, if not
better than, others at that time.
       They lived in Salt Lake City (Garfield) farming and raising cattle, then
moved to Spanish Fork, Utah.  They farmed and helped build the community there
until April 1861 when they were called to settle Richmond in Cache County.
They helped build the fort and built the first frame house in Richmond.  They
farmed there for years.  Stillman was active in the early business development
of Richmond.  They lived the United Order.--History of Frances Russell Pond
Huff by daughter Malta Lorene Huff Smith, Application for Daughters of the
Utah Pioneers, Georgia L. Smith Bowles, daugther of Malta Smith.