This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hEBBAIB/1188.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have found no data that substantiates the claim that Ervin (Irvin) Pollard who died in Carroll County, Georgia with children: Ann, Abraham, Fred, Jerry, and Stephen was the son of a Stephen Thomas Pollard and his wife Alice Bray. Instead, my research shows that the above Ervin (Irvin) Pollard was the son of John Pollard and Easter (Pugh?). Irvin had brothers Thomas, John, Frederick, Pugh, Steven and one sister Elizabeth who married Joel Knight. Irvin's father, John Pollard, died about 1795 in Pitt County, NC and his widow, Easter, moved about 1810 to Greene County, GA and later about 1820 to Fayette Co., GA. Mark Pollard of McDonough, GA, based on research by his grandfather and summarized in an article "The Pioneer Times of Irvin Pollard and His Family in Fayette County" also gives a similar account of a Levi Pollard whose son Stephen Thomas Pollard married an Alice Bray. Mark and I have discussed his grandfather's research and the many problems I have with it. Was the information gotten from him? Although they may exist, I have not been able to find any references in NC, SC, or GA records of a Levi Pollard nor of a Stephen Thomas Pollard who married an Alice Bray. I would like to know what evidence exists, however my data strongly shows that Irvin Pollard was not the son of a Stephen Thomas Pollard and Alice Bray but of John and Easter Pollard. I would appreciate your letting me know the sources of your research and I will be happy to share further what I have to support my above concerns and claims. Thanks. George R. Slayton Marietta, GA