Bathsheba Treatise Best
b. February 1870, d. 23 March 1961
- Father: Stephen Best b. circa 1848, d. March 1870
- Mother: Winifred Pauline Koonce b. circa 8 June 1850, d. circa 21 July 1936
- Bathsheba Treatise Best was born in February 1870 in Lavaca County, Texas, according to the 1870 census, but death record has birthdate 20 January 1868.
- Harriet Newell Melton appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Lavaca County, North Carolina. Other members of the household included Bathsheba Treatise Best, Julia Koonce, Josephine Koonce, Lilia Koonce, Winifred Pauline Koonce and Eben Best. The name and age of the youngest Koonce child in the household are indecipherable.
- Winifred Pauline Koonce appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Lavaca County, Texas. Other members of the household included Bathsheba Treatise Best, Alexander Hugo Ponton, Thomas Joel Ponton and Minnie Lee Ponton.
- She married Victor Hugo Ponton, son of Joel Ponton and Mary Henderson, on 22 December 1889 in Fayette County, Texas. Victor was a younger half-brother of Bathsheba's mother's second husband Alexander Ponton..
- Victor Hugo Ponton and Bathsheba Treatise Best appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Lavaca County, Texas, and children Mary, Treatice, Lelia and Oscar, not yet recorded.
- Bathsheba Treatise Best became a widow at the 17 April 1922 death of her husband Victor Hugo Ponton.
- Bathsheba Treatise Best died on 23 March 1961 at age 91 in La Grange, Fayette County, Texas, at 228 West Milam at her residence.
- She was interred at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Columbus, Colorado County, Texas.
- Last Edited: 4 Mar 2014