Melvin Ponder

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From FindAGrave:
Birth: Nov. 21, 1914
San Augustine County
Texas, USA
Death: Nov. 3, 2003
San Augustine
San Augustine County
Texas, USA

Funeral for Melvin Ponder, 88, of San Augustine will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Wyman Roberts Memorial Chapel, San Augustine, with Alton Shaw officiating. Burial will be in Antioch Cemetery, San Augustine County.

Ponder died Nov. 3, 2003, in San Augustine.

Born Nov. 21, 1914, in San Augustine County, he was the son of Berry Ponder and Lillie Epps. He had been a mechanic for WKM Machine Shop, and he was a U.S. Army veteran.

Survivors include his wife, Ruby Ponder, of San Augustine; son, Michael Ponder of Missouri City; sisters, Opal Thompson and Winnie Nance, both of San Augustine; brothers, Charles Ponder and Frank Ponder, both of San Augustine; and four grandchildren.

Wyman Roberts Funeral Home, San Augustine.

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He is shown on FindAGrave as a son of William Farrar PONDER and Angeline M ROBERTS, who also have memorials.

Berry married Lillie Eppes on 24 Dec 1913 in San Augustine County, Texas. Lillie was born on 27 May 1891 in Texas; died on 28 May 1932 in Bland Lake, San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in Antioch Cemetery (Caucasian), San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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FindAGrave notes that "Lillie was the daughter of James C. Eppes 1856 ? 1933
and Sarah Hattie (Frances) Baggett 1866 ? 1937.

Lillie Eppes married Berry Ponder on Dec. 24, 1913 in San Augustine Co, TX. They eight children: Melvin Perry Ponder, Mary Lee Ponder Wilkerson, Jesse Berry Ponder,Opal Ponder Thompson McBride, Frank Porcher Ponder, Winifred "Winnie " Ponder Nance,and Charles R. Ponder. "