Robert: I will check my database and see what I have and see what I can come up with some of my sources. Diane Pollard Keiser -------------- Original message -------------- From: LDF Fly Fishing Tackle <ldffish@hotmail.com> > > Hi Jeremy and Diane Keiser! > > I too have been working on the Pollard family. My problem lies with one Frances > E. Pollard who was my third gr grandmother. I have very strong suspicions that > she was the daughter of Joshua Pollard and Elizabeth Reavis. What I know from > census records is that my Frances Pollard was born in NC about 1825. She > married Richard Murry, year unknown. They lived in VA, then Nashville, TN, and > finally ended up in Dubois County, IN about 1860. Frances died in Dubois about > 1883 and Richard died in 1893. Death years are taken from a gravestone. > > I've corresponded with Diane before. She's been a big help on the Pollards. I > just can't seem to get anything definitive on Frances being a child of Joshua > and Elizabeth. It's good to find somebody else working on this family. > > Here is my family page url: > http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/c/h/Robert-L-Schneider/index.html > > Robert Schneider > > > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > > From: Jeremy Brock > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I don't believe I've introduced myself. My name is > >> Samuel Jeremy Brock. My Wake county line comes from > >> the Pollard family. I believe > >> Barzillai/Barsilla/Barzillia Betts Pollard, born circa > >> 1845, was my gg-grandfather. In later records he is > >> known as BB or as in the 1910 census Balzilba (a > >> misspelling). > >> > >> I believe he was from the Oak Grove area before it > >> went to Durham. As far as I have been able to > >> determine his father was Joshua Pollard, a shoemaker, > >> and his mother Elizabeth Revis/Reavis, a seamstress. > >> > >> Some related surnames are Goodwin and possibly Betts > >> as there is a "Barzillia/Barsilla Betts" who never > >> leaves NC. Also, BB had a brother, if I'm right, > >> Joshua Hinton Pollard. It seems Hinton could be an > >> ancestor's surname as well. > >> > >> My BB served in the 14th NC Infantry, Co "E" as he > >> shows up in the pension records for Crockett county TN > >> where I know he lived. He switched between Crockett > >> and Madison counties between about 1870 and 1920. > >> > >> I would appreaciate any information on the Pollards > >> and realated lines of Wake county and who may be > >> Joshua Sr's father-Major, William, etc. > >> > >> > >> Sincerely, > >> Jeremy Brock > >> > >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook – together at last. Get it > now. > http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCWAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message