List Members, I am again cross posting with additional notes on my POLLARD and EDMONDS line with connections that migrated through Wilkes, Taliaferro, and Greene, and Oglethorpe County, Georgia, at various times. On the POLLARDS, I think my line goes: William Pollard of Culpepper Co., Va. William Pollard b. by c. 1760 Va. d. before 1820 m. Jane Thompson I think he is the one who servied in the Rev. War. I have not research this line this far back, This is from other people. Seaborn Pollard, Sr. b. c. 1780 m. c. 18000-1805 Sarah M {_?_} b. c. 1782 d. October 9, 1872 from newspaper reference of that time period in Greene County, Georgia. Sarah Pollard m. 1849 Wilkes County, Georgia, to James Edmonds On the EDMONDS line: Francis Edmonds m. Rachel [_?_] in Halfax County, Virginia, on Bannister River 1768 John Edmonds m. Winnifred Buckner d. Anthony Buckner and Amy Powell Powels back to c. 1715 St. Paul's Parsih, Stafford County, Virginia James Edmonds b. 1776 m. 1st. in Lincoln Co, Ga. Stratham (various spelling) m. 2nd 1812 Wilkes County, Ga. Sarah/Sallie R./Ross Bruce dau. of Elizabeth [_?_] and Daniel Bruce d. bef. 1803 James M. Edmonds m. 1849 Wilkes County Sarah Pollard Buried with markers in teh Rayle Cemetery, Wilkes County, Georgia. I am estimating the Seaborn Pollard, Sr. was born somewhere around 1780 or so, ball park figure, and died before the 1850 census. Through the Conference Minutes of Bethesda Baptist Church I have established that his wife was Sarah M. {_?_}. This matches up with the census and the Taliaferro County deed below in my notes. She is suppose to have died October 9, 1872. I have estimated her birth as being somewhere before that date in 1782 in Virginia according to the census. I am also making an educated guess that their marriage would have been somewhere around 1800 to 1810. I don't have age estimated on some of their children. At the present time I have 661 people in an Edmonds file who are either descendents of Francis Edmonds and Rachel[_?_] or connected to some of their descendents. When I published the Bethesda Church Minutes I was looking for my Reynold line, but found a lot of other "stuff" instead. Not much entered on the Pollards yet. I still have copies that would make a nice Christmas present. Lots of Taliaferro County folks in the index. I am originaly from Georgia. My family lived with my maternal grandmother when I was a preschooler and I went to Church at Bethesda east of Union Point in Greene County. I still have first cousins there. I just married a Texan. So don't e-mail me about other lines that came to Texas unless you know that they connect back to these counties in Georgia because I can't help you. I am still not clear on the McAvoy connections. Maybe more than one Pollard-McAvoy marriage. Vivian Cates, Rt. #2 Box 52-A, Alto, Texas 75925-9607 1-936-858-3801 http://www.inu.net/vcates NOTES I HAVE ENTERED IN MY GEN. PROGRAM UNDER SARAH M. married SEABORN POLLARD, SR. TALIAFERRO COUNTY, GEORGIA. OFFICE OF CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT. Deed Book E, Page 241 Georgia } Know all men by these presence that we the Taliaferro County} undersigned have this day, for & in consider- ation of the sum of One Thousand Dollars bargained sold & delivered & by these presents do bargain sell & deliver unto John W. Reid a Certain Woman Named Mary about Twenty three years old & her Child Named George about three Years old. The right & title to which Negroes we will forever warrant & defend against the Claim of any & all Persons what- so ever & we also warrant them to be sound in mind and body Signed sealed & delivered } Sarah her X mark Pollard {L. S.} this 30,th of Dec.r 1854. } William H. Rhodes {L. S.} W. M. Reese } Josiah Pollard {L. S.} I. T. Irvin Jr. } Mary Her X mark McAvoy Daniel U./H(?) Meadow J. P. } James his X mark Pollard } James his X mark Edmunds Recorded this January 12,th 1855 Quinea O'Neal Clerk NOTE: In reviewing TALIAFERRO COUNTY GEORGIA RECORDS AND NOTES by Alvin Mell Luncefore, Jr., The Reprint Company, Publishers, Spartainburg, South Carolina 1988. There does not appear to be any other deeds or wills that can be associated with this deed record. CONFERENCE MINUTES OF BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH. Union Point (Greene County) Georgia. AUGUST 1817 TO DECEMBER 1865. Transcribed and Indexed by Vivian Toole Cates, C. 1991. Page 33. Conference Minutes May 16th 1828. Restored... to full fellowship also Sister Sarah Pollard was restored to full fellowhip. Page 205. Conference Minutes January 20th1855. Letters of dismission were requested for sister Mary Hogg, Sister Sarah M. Pollard & her servant woman Tiller, which were granted. Page 206. Conference Minutes February 17th 1855. Letter in minute book after regular conference minutes. The Baptist Church at Bethesda to any regular Baptist Church; Dear Brethren: This is to certify that Sister Sarah M. Pollard is a member in full fellowship with us & is hereby dismissed when joined to any other church of the same faith & order. Done by order of this church in conference. Jan 20th 1855. Thos R. Morgan Mod. Protem Letter of Dismission for Sister Pollard BOOK: "Christian Index - Obituaries 1822 -1879" shows that Mrs. Sarah Pollard, 90 years old, widow of Seaborn Pollard, died on October 9, 1872 in Greene County, GA.