Amos Lee Ponder

Notes:

A son of Silas Lito Ponder and Lucitta Darden. His younger sister, Martha, married Americus V. Carter, the eldest son of his wife, Margaret Ursula Holden Carter, by her first marriage to Isaac Carter. This would technically make William the stepfather of his brother-in-law, though the two were only eight years apart in age.

His tombstone was said to be inscribed with the following: Aged 58 Yearsm 8 Months, 14 Days.

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Census Listings:

1860 Census
Lousiana, Natchitoches Parish, PO Natchitoches
Enumarated 13 Sept 1860
Page 80
708-708
Wm. A. Ponder 29 M Planter 15000 2000 Ga
Margaret W. Ponder 36 F Miss
Laura Ponder 4 F Miss
S. D. Ponder 8/12 M La
W. O. Carter 12 M Miss
E. A. Carter 11 F Miss
M. A. Carter 8 F (sic) Miss

1870 Census
Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Ward 6, PO Couchatta Chute
Enumerated 15 July 1870
Page 2
16-15
Ponder, Wm. A. 39 M W Farmer 4500 1000 Ga
Ponder, Margaret 45 F W Keeping House Miss
Carter, Thaddeus 17 M W La
Carter, Emily A. 20 F W La
Ponder, Laura E 15 F W La
Ponder, Silas 10 M W La
Ponder, Amos 7 M W La
Carter, Joseph 12 M W La (Nephew, son of her sister Julia Holden Carter)
Carter, Ginsey 11 F W La (Niece, dtr of her sister Julia Holden Carter)

William married Margaret Ursula Holden about 1854. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Holden, Jr. and Elizabeth Flannigan) was born on 21 May 1822 in Amite County, Mississippi; died on 17 Dec 1878 in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Fort Jesup Cemetery, Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John and Meg Anderson, on the the FindaGrave website shows that after Isaac died, she married William Amos Ponder, son of Silas Lito Ponder and Lucitta Darden, on 22 Jan 1854. He adopted her youngest three children, and William and Amos went on to have three children of their own. The also "took in" the children of Margaret's sister, Julia, namely Charles Nettie Carter, Joseph Coleman Carter, and Jensey Elizabeth Carter.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64829744

Thomas married Elizabeth Flannigan. Elizabeth was born before 1808 in South Carolina; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]