Husband Samuel Pollock 1 2
Born: 16 Jan 1813 - North Strabane Twp, Washington Co, PA 2 3
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Died: 4 Jul 1883 4 5
Buried: - Oak Spring Cemetery, near Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA
Father: William Pollock (1781/1783-1856) 1 2 6
Mother: Nancy McNary ( -1834) 1 2
Marriage: 1 Sep 1840 2
Wife Esther McNary 2 3 7
Born: Abt 1814
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Died: 9 Nov 1890 4 5
Buried: - Oak Spring Cemetery, near Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA
Father: John McNary ( -1844) 3 8 9
Mother: Jane E. Hill (Abt 1780-1867) 3 10
Children
1 M James Wallace Pollock 2 3 11
Born: 10 Oct 1841 - North Strabane Twp, Washington Co, PA 2 4
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Spouse: Mary T. McNary (1848-1890) 12 13
Marr: 5 Dec 1867 5 12
Spouse: Martha Davis ( - ) 5 11 14
2 M William B. Pollock 2 3
Born: 26 May 1843 - North Strabane Twp, Washington Co, PA 15
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Spouse: Hettie Alverta Murray (1851- ) 15
Marr: 11 Feb 1875 16
3 F Jennie Hill Pollock 2 3
Born: 8 Oct 1843 - North Strabane Twp, Washington Co, PA 12
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Died: Aft 1893
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4 M John McNary Pollock 2 3
Born: 2 Jan 1846 - North Strabane Twp, Washington Co, PA 12
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Spouse: Mary Jane Templeton (1846-1893) 12
5 M Samuel Murray Pollock 2 3
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Died: in childhood
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
6 M Oliver Collins Pollock 3 17
Born: 15 Oct 1852 - North Strabane Twp, Washington Co, PA 15 18
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Spouse: Anna Bell Weaver (1854- ) 15 19
Marr: 3 Dec 1880 15 19
7 M Alexander Clark Pollock 2 3
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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Pollock
His father willed to him the Alexander Scott farm in Washington County, Pennsylvania, containing 208 acres, situ-ated on the State road in North Strabane town-ship. He and his wife passed the first years of their wedded life on this farm, it being part of the original Judge McDowell tract of 440 acres, all of which they afterward succeeded in purchasing. In the spring of 1858, having a desire to secure better educational advantages for their children, they purchased the residence of the Rev. A. B. Anderson, D. D., and moved to Canonsburg, where they spent the remaining days of their lives.
In his youth he was one of the leaders in the sports of the community, being a prominent participant at the husking bees, flax scutchings, wood choppings, log rollings and similar amusements of that day. He served seven years in the militia, and was a member of what was known as the "Ginger Hill Troops." In middle life he was hard to excel in the grain-field - in reaping and cradling grain. On one occasion, when his wheat had got very ripe, he cut, with the cradle, 102 dozen sheaves in less than six hours. He was a robust man, weighing 170 pounds, and stood five feet ten inches in height; he was quick in his movements, and possessed wonderful endurance. Financially, he was remarkably prosperous. Notwithstanding his father's will entitled him to the Alexander Scott farm, yet this tract had been only recently pur-chased, and only partially paid for, and it was only by the "sweat of his brow," that he was not only enabled to possess a clear title to this farm, but was enabled to add tract to tract until at the time of his death he ranked as one of the wealthiest landowners in the community. He was a most public-spirited man, but never an aspirant for any public office or no-toriety of any kind, yet at the solicitation of friends he served most of his life in filling various town-ship offices. He was one of the founders of the Republican party in Washington County, PA, and in the winter of 1856 went to Pittsburgh in order to secure a lecturer on the subject; helping to pay for the same out of his own pocket. He was one of the committee who were instrumental in getting Dr. Le Moyne, of Washington, to make the first abolition speech in Canonsburg, which was de-livered from the steps of David Templeton's resi-dence, afterward known as "Olome Institute," which he finally purchased, and carried on for several years, at his own expense, as a Female Sem-inary. (It was situated on the site later occupied by the First Presbyterian church of Canonsburg). During the Fremont campaign of 1856, when a great political wagon was built and decorated in the yard surrounding his barn, and when on the night before the parade the neighboring Democrats undertook to destroy it, he, with a few other stanch Republicans, defended the wagon with an iron poker, amid the breaking of ribs, shoulders, noses etc., he coming out of the melee unharmed and victorious. The following day the wagon was driven to Canonsburg by his brother, James Pol-lock, drawn by ten gray horses, and conveying thirty-three patriotic young ladies, dressed to rep-resent the thirty-three States in the Union. He was very loyal to his country, and in the time of the great struggle of the Rebellion, too old him-self to enlist, he permitted his oldest son, James W., a youth under age, to buckle on the armor, and help save the Republic. In his youth he joined the Seceder Church at Pigeon Creek, un-der the pastorate of Rev. Alexander Wilson. After his marriage he connected with the Chartiers Se-ceder (later known as the Chartiers United Presby-terian) Congregation at Canonsburg, in which he was elected a ruling elder February 15, 1854, which office he held during the remainder of his life. He was one of the prime factors in erecting the edifice known as Chartiers U. P. Church, at Canonsburg, in 1869-70; paying the largest subscription, besides working gratis and prevailing on others to do likewise. His home at Canonsburg was (in the words of Rev. Samuel Taggart, D. D.): "A minister's free hotel; even the minister's horse knew the place to turn into as he traveled the road." He was the original mover in the organisation of the Oak Spring Cemetery Company. Being chosen first president of said association, he served in that capacity until his death. [CBRWC, 606]