Holland City News, May 8, 1913

Sunday afternoon, in the hospital of the Soldiers’ Home in Grand Rapids, George M. Pond of this city, died after a lingering illness. Mr. Pond had been as member of Holland for 25 years. The past two years he spent at the Soldiers’ Home in Grand Rapids. He served in the Civil War, having been a member of the 11^th Michigan Infantry, Company I.

The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the M. E. Church of this city, of which church Mr. Pond was a member. Rev. Whitman officiated.

(Buried in Pilgrim Home Cemetery.)