Ezra Pontius and Eliza Turney

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Husband Ezra Pontius ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 Dec 1814 - Huntingdon Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 1888 3
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         Father: Jacob Pontius (1783-1845) 2 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Lias (1789-1842) 2 4

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Emily Turney (1822-1862) 3

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Wife Eliza Turney ³

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         Father: Jacob Turney (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Ezra Pontius

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He was born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, but passed practically all his life in Wayne township, Armstrong County, where he followed farming and also engaged in merchandising. He was a Whig and Republican in politics, and in religion a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which he served officially for forty-five years, in the capacities of steward and class-leader.

1 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 230x.

2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 594.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 595.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 557.