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Thomas PONDER[1]
1788 - Aft 1850 (63 years)-
Name Thomas PONDER Birth 1787-1788 Elbert County, Georgia 
Gender Male Reference Number 20 _UID EB67752C59234202BD720B19D1DE98A8F529 Death Aft 1850 Mendenhall, Simpson Co, Mississippi Burial Floyds Cem, Everett Comm, Simpson Co, MS Person ID I13950 Carney Wehofer July 2025 Last Modified 5 Feb 2012
Father Abner Jefferson PONDER, b. 1755, Augusta, VA d. Dec 1832, Bon Aqua Springs, Hickman Co, Tennessee (Age 77 years) Mother Jane GREEN?, b. Abt 1770 d. Abt 1791, GA? (Age ~ 21 years) Marriage Bef 1785 Buffalo Gap, Augusta Co, Virginia Family ID F7204 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Marriage 27 Jan 1807 Hickman County, Tennessee - SOURCE CITATION:
Title: FamilySearch on Internet
Family ID F7213 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
Family 2 Marriage Abt 1813 GA? Family ID F7212 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
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Notes - !Thomas, Margaret, John W., and Mary A appear in the 1850 Census,
Simpson
Co, MS. Thomas, along with Reuben Ponder, left Georgia about 1806
and next
show up in the War of 1812 fighting at New Orleans. Following his
discharge,
he appears in Marion Co, MS, where he was a Justice of the Peace
before
coming to Simpson County with his family. He married Margaret
Crawford in
Marion Co, MS, following the death of his first wife Polly Graham
whom he had
married 27 Jan 1807 in TN (dau of John and Lennah Graham) After his
marriage
Thomas moved to Louisiana with his brother Reuben Ponder.
Thomas appears as Household
#208, living adjacent to his son, Abner J. Ponder, and near James,
Abner,
and Reuben Ponder. Abner and James were sons of Reuben.
Thomas Ponder is identified as one of seven sons of Abner Ponder of
Hickman
Co, TN, in a letter by William Miles Ponder, written in 1904, and as
a brother
to John Reuben Ponder. William Miles Ponder also identifies Thomas'
ancestor
as being from Scotland and landing at or near the Cape Fear River,
near
Wilmington, NC prior to the Rev. War.
- !Thomas, Margaret, John W., and Mary A appear in the 1850 Census,
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Sources - [S818] John T. Palmer, Ph.D., John T. Palmer, Ph.D.
- [S818] John T. Palmer, Ph.D., John T. Palmer, Ph.D.