• Inscription:
  COME YE BLESSED
  P. L. PONDER
  BORN
  SEPT. 27, 1840
  DIED
  MAR. 28, 1916
  On that bright immortal
  Shore. We shall meet to
  Part no more.
  
  PONDER
  
  Perryman Lafayette Ponder was buried wearing a tailor-made Confederate Captain’s uniform he bought many years after the Civil War. He volunteered and served in the 28th Regiment Alabama Infantry, attaining the rank of Captain.
  
  The birth year recorded in family bibles for Perry and his twin brother, Berryman Shumate Ponder, is Sept. 27, 1839, a year earlier than recorded on his grave marker.
  
  P. L. Ponder was the son of John Pierson Ponder (1818-1846), and Catherine Carter Pruitt (1823-1915). He married three times and was the father of 12 children, plus seven step-children from his second marriage.
  
  His wives:
  MARTHA JANE WOODWARD (1839-1875) Mother of his eight children.
  ELIZABETH JANE WALKER (1838-1879) Mother of Laura Lucinda Ponder.
  SERENA ALMANTHA PRUETT (1853-1932) Mother of his three daughters.
  

• Birth Date: 9/27/1839
• Birthplace: DeKalb Co., Georgia USA
• Death Date: 3/28/1916
• Death Location: Greer Co., Oklahoma USA
• Spouse: Serena Almantha Pruett

• Cemetery: Reed Cemetery
• Location: Reed, Greer Co., Oklahoma USA

• Page Author: Lyndall Janell Mayes

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