The Buckley Family Genealogy


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James Buckley (1722-1787) died in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. He married Mary and they were the parents of nine children. Their son John Buckley married Mary (Polly) Harris (1767-1806) in Pittsylvania Co. They were the parents of six children. Their daughter Betsy Ann Buckley married Thomas Brown. They lived and died in Clarke Co., Georgia. Another son, James Buckley, Jr. was a Revolutionary soldier like his brother John. He married Mary Ridgeway in Halifax Co., VA in 1788. They settled later in Williamson Co., Tennessee. Other family members lived in Weakley and Henderson Co., Tenn. Several generations of descendants are given.










George Akin Hays


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The Family of Abner Ponder


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Abner Jefferson Ponder (ca. 1755-1813), a Revolutionary War soldier, was born in America or Germany, possibly the son and Daniel and Jemima Bennett Ponder. After the war, he went to Virginia, where his oldest son was born in 1785. Soon after that time, the family was living in Abbeyville County, South Carolina. They were in Elbert County, Georgia, from 1787 to 1806; then migrated to Hickman County, Tennessee. Abner Ponder probably married three times and was probably the father of eleven children, born 1785-1813. Abner J. Hickman died at Bon Aqua, Hikman County, Tennessee. Descendants listed lived in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and elsewhere.