Hello Gretchen
Theophilus and Ann had four children:
Theophilus (1791-1875)
Ann (1793-??)
John (1795-1867)
Elijah (1797-1871) - death registered as Pointing
Theophilus and Sophia had three children:
William (1804-05)
Phebe (1806-07)
Elizabeth (1809-??)
I'm sorry I can't tell you much about the second family, but my enthusiasm ran out after researching the children of Ann Candy PONTING and didn't extend to Theophilus's children by his second wife!!
I presume you know that Tom Candy Ponting (named, no doubt, after his great-uncle Thomas (Tom) Candy (1785-1828), brother of his grandmother Ann) wrote an autobiography in 1952? In case not, here are relevant extracts from the first four pages:
Extract from: Ponting T C (1952). Life of Tom Candy Ponting: An autobiography. Introduction and notes by Herbert O Brayer. Evanston Illinois: The Branding Iron Press.
My name is Tom Candy Ponting. I was born at Hayden Farm, Parish of Kilsmeredo [Kilmersdon] near Bath, Somersetshire England, August 26 1824. My mother’s maiden name was Ruth Sherron [Shearn]. My father’s name was John, and my grandfather Ponting’s name was Theophilus. My grandmother Ponting’s maiden name was Candy. I was the fourth of nine children; eight of the nine lived to marry. I now [1907] have living two sisters and one brother; my brother John lives in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio.
I was married in 1856 to Margaret, daughter of Michael and Margaret Kautz Snyder. Mrs Ponting has four brothers and one sister married and the heads of families in Moweaqua, and ten of her Snyder nephews and nieces have married and remained here, so that I am related by marriage to almost every family in the town. …
The Ponting family were breeders of cattle (that I have followed all my life) both in England and in this country. The Ponting family came into England with William the Conqueror; so we are descendants of Normandy. The Pontings settled within a few miles from where I was born, all the early ones and up to my grandfather’s death were buried in the Fauset [Foxcote] graveyard. I found that the oldest monument in the church was out up to a Ponting. It was put up two hundred and ninety-eight years before I went over there.
I came to the United States in 1847 with brother John. We came out with a lady and gentleman who were returning from England, their home being Wooster Ohio. I sailed from London in the ship London. In those days it took six weeks to make the trip. After I landed I spent two days in New York, then took the boat on the Hudson River to Albany, from there took the railroad to Buffalo, and the boat from Buffalo to Cleveland. At Cleveland we sent our baggage onto Wooster. There was no railroad in that part of the country and the baggage had to be sent in travelling wagons which were for the purpose of carrying goods backward and forward. After leaving Cleveland we footed it to Strongville, Ohio, about fifteen miles south of Cleveland. We stopped there several days with Mr Roberts, a friend of my father and mother. We next went to Medina. I went to a circus while in that town and strange to say, the ticket collector was a man I had known in England. … After we left there we came to Wooster where we found our baggage, also our friends who had gotten a little ahead of us. We spent several weeks around Wooster with some old friends that came from our part of the country…. After leaving Wooster we went to Fredericksburg, Knox County, Ohio to visit a friend of my father‘s, Mr George. He had a large mill and a distill house, he also had a good deal of land and was very anxious that my brother and I should say with him. My brother stayed with him and has always made his home in that part of the country.
After leaving Fredericktown I went to Etna which was sixteen miles east of Columbus on the Pike. While at this place I met a Mr Matthews, a large stock man. I was acquainted with his brother in England. He offered me a good home and urged me very much to stay with him, but I only stayed six weeks… (pages 1-4, passim)
Kind regards
Philip Candy
