Susanne Waller works at the Trinity County Museum and I emailed her about our family. She was kind enough to look through their archive and found the original land grant! It looks like Sylvester Pollard first recieved the land grant on November 3rd, 1855, so now we know the Pollards moved there around that time. It was for 160 arcers and its 7 miles from Sumpter (I suspected it would be close to sumpter). It runs along Piny Creek, which is a little north of Sumpter Texas. Susanne was also nice enough to show send me some old maps that list his property.

I found another Pollard contection to the Corpus Christi area. Sylvester Pollard had a brother named Louis Pollard that moved to Robstown sometime before 1920. I had his death certificate along with his census reports starting in 1920. I am not sure when he moved, or why, but I'll keep digging. He did own a farm when he passed away. I am still trying to figure out while Nathan and James Pollard moved to Corpus Christi, but maybe it could be because they have a family connect to the area. Lew would have been Hosea Pollard's Uncle.

It’s funny how finding a piece of evidence can lead to more questions then answers. My discovery of Nathan Pollards obituary servers as a great example of that point. See I wanted to find out what Nathan Pollard was doing when he passed away and I thought that his obituary would say. Unfortunately it did not, but it did mention that he had moved to Corpus Christi from Wichita Falls in 1942 and I didn’t have any records of Nathan Pollard living in Wichita Falls.

I have located the house that Nathan Pollard lived in when they lived in Gainesville Texas and the house still stands. How I found the house is an interesting story itself. In the 1930 census report Nathan Pollard lists his address as 703 Eldridge Street, Gainesville, Texas. That’s the same address listed in the phone book at the time, the problem is that address today is just a vacant lot. Me and Janet went to look at it and even took some pictures.