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WILLIAM S. POUNDSTONE was born in Fayette county, Pa., Jan. 5, 1829, where he was raised. He removed to Perry county, Ohio, where he lived for ten years. He was married Nov. 28, 1850, to Catharine E. Caughenbaugh, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, March 7, 1831; her parents were of German descent The children’s names are Rezin F., John A. (who died April 23, 1882, twenty-nine years of age), Eva C., Nicholas E. and William. In 1861 he came to La Salle and Piatt counties, Ill., where he resided until 1869, when he took up his home in Jasper county, Mo., in the towns of Oronogo and Carterville. He was engaged in the grocery business for some years with his son John, in Carterville, who had sold out his business before his sudden death by small-pox. Young John Poundstone was a most exemplary young man, and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him. He was instrumental in building some of Carterville’s best institutions, and will be greatly missed by the community as well as by his fond parents. Mr. William Poundstone lives on a farm of 200 acres in the northeastern part of Twin Grove township, eighty acres of which sown to winter wheat the past season averaged twenty bushels to the acre, and sixty acres of corn averaged thirty bushels. There is a fine young peach and apple orchard and other general good improvements on the farm. Mrs. Poundstone is a member of the South Methodist Church and Mr. Poundstone an Odd Fellow. He has been a man of varied business experience, having been engaged at different times in milling, mining, machinist, grocer, and now a prosperous farmer, His son Rezin owns a farm of 160 acres one-half mile south of his father, which he is rapidly improving. This son is a member of the mining firm of Slaight & Poundstone, one of the wealthiest and most successful prospecting companies in Jasper county. Mr. Poundstone was one of the first residents of Carterville, and has seen it grow into a village of proportions and wealth, much of which is due to the enterprise of himself and his energetic sons in the mercantile and mining business.