This is a response from PONDER-L regarding a Malinda DOVER who married William R. Jehu PONDER about 1848 in Gordon Co., GA. Malinda was the daughter of a Baptist preacher. William PONDER was born in LINCOLN County, NC. Please "notice" the locations for the PONDER family in this list. The PONDER family is a teaser .... neighbors to the Dover's in both YORK and BUNCOMBE. A Jesse PONDER from York was a neighbor to Francis J. DOVER in Habersham. Descendants of William R. Jehu Ponder Generation No. 1 1. William R. Jehu6 Ponder (Jehu John5, Jesse4, Daniel3 Ponder?, Richard2 Ponder, John1) was born 18 August 1830 in Lincoln Co., NC, and died 9 April 1910 in Clay Co., AL. He married (1) Malinda Dover Abt. 1848 in Gordan Co., GA. He married (2) Jennette Garrett 20 January 1855 in Clay Co., AL, daughter of Lega Garrett. Notes for William R. Jehu Ponder: Sources: 1859 land records of Clay Co., AL; 1860 census Talladega Co., AL census; 1870 census Talladega Co., AL; " Confederate Veterans buried in Clay, Cleburne, and Randolph Co., AL"; tombstone at Marvin Chapel Cemetery, Clay Co., AL, on HWY 148 Ponder, William J. Born 18 August 1830, Rutherford Co., NC. (other sources say Lincoln Co., NC) Died 9 April 1910. Entered as a private, on 1 May 1862 at Talladega, A1 in Company T, 30 Alabama Regiment, and continued until discharged at the surrender. Alabama land records show a William J. Ponder acquiring 40.11 acres in Clay Co., AL. William lived in Clay Co., AL, on the same farm since 1868. Elizabeth Pearson Ponder, William's mother, was listed living with him in the 1870 Talladega Co., AL census. Notes for Malinda Dover: Malinda's father was a Baptist minister. Notes for Jennette Garrett: Source: "History of the Garrett Family" by Whitman Garrett Jennette was the daughter of Rev. Garrett. She is buried at Marvin Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery Child of William Ponder and Malinda Dover is: 2 i. John Jehu Leander7 Ponder, born Abt. 1849 in Gordan Co., GA; died 1896 in LA. He married Eliza Jane Hogan 1872. Notes for John Jehu Leander Ponder: John and Eliza left AL and moved to AK in 1883. In 1899 they moved to LA. Notes for Eliza Jane Hogan: Eliza was the daughter of William Hogan and Nancy Letitia Willis(daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Willis who came to MS with several children in 1827). Eliza's parents died about 1860 and she was raised by her grandmother, Elizabeth Willis who was born in Ireland about 1800. Eliza had a sister, Mary Ann, who was born 7 Nov. 1859 and died 19 April 1899. Mary Ann married her first cousin, Collie Caroline Willis. Children of William Ponder and Jennette Garrett are: 3 i. Julia Ann7 Ponder, born Abt. 1857. She married V. J. Estes. 4 ii. Silas Bennett Ponder, born 20 April 1859 in Clay Co., AL. He married Adelia Ledbetter in Clay Co., AL. 5 iii. William Sidney Ponder, born 1862 in AL. 6 iv. J. Elizabeth Ponder, born 1864 in AL. She married Tom Davis. 7 v. Mary Ellen Ponder, born 1866. 8 vi. Marcus Layfayette Ponder, born 1868. 9 vii. Arthur Brittian Ponder, born 1872. 10 viii. Dovie Ponder, born Abt. 1874. 11 ix. Jeanette Ann Ponder, born Abt. 1876. 12 x. Marion Franklin Ponder, born Abt. 1878. 13 xi. Pearl Ponder, born Abt. 1880.