Obituaries:  Amos Lee Ponder, Sabine Parish       P-536
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 23, 1959
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net




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The Sabine Index - Amos Lee Ponder 
  
  23 Oct 1959 - Associate Justice Amos Lee Ponder of the La. 
Supreme Court died Monday after a brief illness. 
  
  The 72-year-old jurist has been undergoing treatment for 
pneumonia for the past two weeks. 
  
  Ponder was elected to the high tribunal in 1936 and was 
re-elected in 1950. His 14-year term still had five years to run. 
  
  Justice Ponder served 23 years on the High Tribunal. 
  
  He was born in Fort Jesup, Sabine Parish, and attended Mt. 
Lebanon College, Tulane and Louisiana State. He was president of 
his graduating class at LSU in 1912. 
  
  He practiced law in Amite until 1924 when he was elected 
district attorney of the 21st judicial district and in 1930 was 
elected district judge. 
  
  Chief Justice John B. Fournet said of Ponder's death, " The 
people of Louisiana have lost one of their most dedicated public 
servants and the legal profession one of its shining adornments." 
  
  Funeral services were held in Amite at 2 p.m. Tuesday. 
  
  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Amanda McMichael Ponder, three 
sons, Amos L. Ponder, Jr., George Ponder and John Ponder, one 
daughter, Mrs. Julia Deane; a brother, William A. Ponder, and 
several grandchildren. 
  
  He was a cousin of Judge Wm. Ponder of Many.