Editing Carl Ponder (section)

== Family ==

===== Carl Milton Ponder =====

* [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/106870141:60525?tid=&pid=&queryId=27d8365a-9fe3-41f8-a44f-42a19655d137&_phsrc=EUe89&_phstart=successSource#:~:text=https%3A//www.findagrave.com/memorial/129879748/carl%2Dmilton%2Dponder Find-a-Grave entry]
** Born 25 Jan 1884
** Died 9 Jan 1954
* Most data from obituary article in Greenville News, Jan 10 1954, P. 32
** Son of the late Thomas Butler Ponder and Sarah Gibson Ponder
** Born in the Washington community
** Came to Greer in 1903 and entered the grocery business; 1905 entered the ice cream and bottling business
** Never married, had no children
** Had lived at 401 North Main
** Member of First Baptist Church, Greer
** Charter member of the Greer Kiwanis Club
** For a number of years, member of Greer CPW and served as chairman
** Operating the Ponders Ice Cream Co. at the time of his death
** Died at 4 pm on January 9, 1954 at age 69
** Died in a Greenville hospital after two years of declining health and a serious illness of two days
** Survived by three brothers: Henry Jackson "Bub" of Greer, and James Reginald and Thomas Herman [though obituary says T.J.] of Greer Route 2.
* The State (Columbia) Feb 8 1954, P. 13 — estate was valued at $445,000