Stephen Pollard Jr. (1815 - 1899)

Born 5 Aug 1815 in Livermore, Oxford, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Lucy Bailey (Merrill) Pollard — married 3 Dec 1846 in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States

Died 21 Nov 1899 at age 84 in Belmont, Allegany, New York, United States

Biography

Birth

Stephen Pollard Jr. was born on 5 Aug 1815, the son of Stephen Pollard and Emmelia (Cary) Pollard. His birth is recorded in the vital records of Livermore, Maine,^[1] but in the 1850 Census his birthplace is shown as Massachusetts.^[2]

Marriages

1. Stephen Pollard married Lucy B. Merrill.^[3] On 16 Nov 1846, Stephen Pollard Jr. of Livermore, Maine, and Lucy B. Merrill of Turner, Maine, published at Livermore their intention to marry.^[4] They married at Livermore on 3 Dec 1846.^[5][6]
2. Stephen Pollard married Sarah A. (Anderson) Huntley.^[3] Stephen Pollard married Sarah A. Anderson on 26 Oct 1856. No documentary evidence of the marriage has been found. The date of the marriage and the nameAnderson are from the 1911 Cary genealogy.^[6] The name Huntley is from his obituary.

Death

According to a church record, Stephen Pollard died at Belmont, New York, on 21 Nov 1899.^[7] His obituary gives the date as 20 Nov 1899. A FindAGrave memoral with no photo and no burial sources says he is buried at the Forect Hills Cemetery in Belmont.^[8]

Obituary

The following obituary attributed to the Bolivar, New York Breeze of 2 Mar 1899 is transcribed on Stepehen Pollard's FindAGrave memorial:^[8]

The Dispatch says that Stephen Pollard, Sr., died at his home in Belmont Feb. 20 at the age of 84. Mr. Pollard was born in Maine in 1815, and came to Amity about the time of the completion of the Erie railroad, and became one of the industrious and representative farmers of the town. He married Miss Lucy Pollard who died in 1856. He was again married to Mrs. Sarah Huntley. The surviving children by the first marriage are Oliver Pollard and Mrs. Charles Spaulding of Belmont. By the second marriage there survive Stephen A. Pollard Jr. and W. A. Pollard of Belmont and Lincoln Pollard of New York.

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1786-1840," page 6; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 32 of 718
2. ↑ United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch Maine > Oxford > Livermore > image 41 of 43, Family 338 (Stephen Pollard family); citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Stephen Pollard, comp., Pollard genealogy: being a record of one line of the Pollard family descended from Thomas Pollard of Billerica, Mass.(East Orange, N. J., 1902), pg. 6
4. ↑ Marriage intention of Stephen Pollard Jr. and Lucy B. Merrill, in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine, FamilySearch > Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1841 to 1876, Book No. 3 > unpaginated; > image 482 of 718; FHL Microfilm 11332
5. ↑ Marriage record of Stephen Pollard and Lucy B. Merrill, in Marriage Returns of Oxford County, Maine prior to 1892 (Camden, Me., 1993), page 64
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Seth Conley Cary, John Cary the Plymouth Pilgrim (Boston, Mass., 1911), page 170
7. ↑ Stephen Pollard death record (Ancestry.com subscription required), in New York, Episcopal Diocese of Rochester Church Records, 1800-1970 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. Original data:The Episcopal Diocese of Rochester Church Records, Rochester, New York.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #191199792 for Stephen Pollard