Book Description

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.