Sarah Ponton Eggleston

Sarah Ponton Eggleston. . , Sarah Ann Ponton, the youngest child of William Ponton and Isabella (Mooreland) Ponton, was born September 16, 1820 in Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. She migrated to Texas with her parents in 1829. After her father's massacre by Indians in 1834, Sarah Ann became a pillar of strength and comfort to her bereaved mother. , Sarah had lovely dark eyes and classical features that portrayed a wholesome beauty. On May 3, 1835 she married thirty-five year old Horace Eggleston. Horace was the son of Sidney Eggleston and Sarah Harwood. He was an attorney, storekeeper, and citizen soldier. Early in the couple's marriage they were swept into Texas' struggle for independence. Sarah was just fifteen years old and seven month's pregnant with her first child when she fled Gonzales along with the rest of the Ponton clan and an estimated five thousand fellow Texans fleeing Santa Anna's Army in the run-away-scrape. Sarah's husband joined the Texas Republic Army and fought at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. She gave birth to her first child, William P. Eggleston, across the river from the San Jacinto Battlefield on May 2, 1836. Sarah gave birth to four more children: Mary Jane, John H., George Tyler, and Newton Harwood. This dog-run cabin, known as the "Eggleston House" was home to Horace, Sarah, their five children, and her mother, Isabella Ponton. Two years after Horace's death in 1855, Sarah married Benjamin A Minter. She continued to live in Gonzales until her death on February 25, 1880.