Solomon Pontius and Margaret Myers

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Husband Solomon Pontius ¹

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           Born: 13 Dec 1819 - Donegal Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: Gabriel Pontius (1786-1872) 2
         Mother: Mary Barnhart (Abt 1787-1875) 2

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   Other Spouse: Mary King (      -1843) 1 - 1842 1

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Wife Margaret Myers ¹

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           Born: 22 Aug 1822 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Frederick Myers (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Susannah [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M Rev. John W. Pontius ^{1 4}

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           Born: 14 Aug 1846 - near Millerstown, Butler Co, PA 1 4
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2 F Susannah Pontius ¹

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           Born: 4 Jun 1848 1
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           Died: Dec 1861 1
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Caroline Pontius ¹

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           Born: 23 Aug 1851 1
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           Died: 29 Jul 1882 1
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         Spouse: William S. Sipe (      -1925) 5

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4 F Mary Catherine Pontius ^{1 7 8}

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            AKA: Mary C. Pontions 6
           Born: 19 May 1856 1
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         Spouse: Dr. Charles F. Daubenspeck (1850-      ) 1 7 9 10
           Marr: 26 Sep 1876 6 8

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5 M Solomon Isaiah Pontius ¹

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           Born: 7 Oct 1861 1
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         Spouse: Sarah Catherine Sommerville (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Solomon Pontius

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He spent his boy­hood days on the farm, assisting his father in clearing the land, and working in the pottery. Dressed in the home-made clothing of the period, he would often pull the flax and break and scutch the same, and then assist his mother in spin­ning and weaving it into clothing and blankets on the home loom. The usual mode of going to mill was on horseback, with a pack saddle, across which he would place the sack of grain. He attended for a few weeks during the winter season the early subscription schools, when the little log school house with pun­cheon floors, and benches split from logs, was the best the times afforded. He remained with his parents until twenty-three years of age, when he took charge of the homestead farm, his parents making their home with him until their death.
He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Millerstown, in which he filled several official positions, and for twenty years was superintendent of the Sabbath school. He was formerly a member of the Ger­man Reformed church, and was an elder in that society for a long period. Polit­ically, a Democrat, he was active in local politics the greater part of his life. For nearly forty years he served as justice of the peace. He also filled the offices of supervisor, assessor, and school direc­tor, the last mentioned for eighteen years, seventeen of which he was secretary of the board. He owned the old family homestead of 200 acres, also another farm in the same township of sixty-two acres, besides 111 acres in Trumbull County, Ohio. He was one of the successful farmers of the county, and was an extensive oil producer.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 952.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 951.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 958.

4 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 861.

5 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 856.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1602.

7 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1085.

8 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 837.

9 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 836.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1601.