David Solomon Pollins and Sarah Pippett

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Husband David Solomon Pollins ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Jan 1812 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1887 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1 3
         Buried:  - Middle Presbyterian Church, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: William Pollons (1785-1871) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Weaver (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1840 1 3

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Wife Sarah Pippett ^{1 3}

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           Born: 3 Sep 1815 - Fayette Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1905 or 1906 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 3
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M Jesse K. Pollins ^{1 3}

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           Born: 11 Jan 1846 1
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           Died: 1900 1
         Buried: 

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2 F Sarah Jane Pollins ^{1 3}

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           Born: 1847 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1905 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Michael Shoup (      -      ) 1 3

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3 M John William Pollins ^{1 2 4}

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           Born: 16 Jan 1849 - near Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 3
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           Died: 23 Mar 1922 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Martha Steele (      -1897) 5
           Marr: 1867 5

         Spouse: Agnes Viola Elder (1866-1934) 2 4 5
           Marr: 21 Sep 1898 4 5

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4 F Ann Elizabeth Pollins ³

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            AKA: Anna E. Pollins 1
           Born: 1851 3
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           Died: 1933 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Anthony Ruff (      -      ) 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - David Solomon Pollins

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He grew to manhood on a farm near Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He became a well known and successful business man and the owner of more than five hundred acres, which were comprised in three farms. For many years he dealt extensively in cattle and other stock and was one of the well known drovers, buying largely in the Western Reserve of Ohio, and driving his purchases across the mountains to the eastern market. In the year 1853 he erected the handsome brick residence, burning the brick for its construction himself. The commodious barn was erected about three years before.

As a boy he learned the blacksmith trade, but quite early in life took up farming. In 1845 he purchased from his cousin, John Leasure, the old Leasure farm, which through his maternal line had been first settled and owned by his great-grandfather, Abraham Leasure, and there he lived the rest of his life. At his death he owned three farms, comprising some of the best farming land in the county, including two of the farms on which the Westmoreland Homesteads were later located, and all of which land was underlaid with the Connellsville vein of coal later acquired by the H. C. Frick Coke Company.
He was large of stature and powerful in physique; many stories survived among his descendants of his physical strength and endurance in performance of the labors of the farm and of his relentless activity.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 879.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 265.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 266.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 538.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 880.