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Onie Ponder
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Onezima Cecelia "Onie" Ponder (née Chazal; September 3, 1898 - December 31, 2010) was an American supercentenarian. She lived to 112 years, 119 days. Family Onezima Cecelia Chazal was born in Ocala, Florida, on September 3, 1898, to Isabel Juliana "Nita" (Hickman) Chazal (1867-1962) and Louis Richard Amedee Chazal (1866-1972) at home on the corner of Ft. King and Herbert Streets. At the age of two, she moved into a house diagonally across the street from the house she was born in. She remembers that that new house had nine rooms and indoor plumbing, which was a significant deal back then as many people still used outhouses. As a child, Ponder and her seven siblings were rarely bored. Ponder said, "we used to have a lot of fun just among ourselves; we didn't need a bunch of folks coming over to entertain us." According to Ponder, she had a wonderful family life as a child. Growing up, she remembered seeing Halley's Comet and was 13 when the Titanic sank. She was sent to boarding school in Columbia, South Carolina, when she was 14. After graduating from in Asheville, North Carolina in 1916, Ponder went to the University of Florida to study accounting, graduating in 1922. She enjoyed listening to historical audio books from the blind center. She listened to more than 200. Ponder credited her longevity to her active youth, “I walked everywhere. I had to; we didn’t have any cars.” 
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