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Pollards of Denison
July 6, 1821 Phillip
Denver Pollard Sr. born in Virginia. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy
supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] March 1, 1839 Lizzie
[Elizabeth] Tereser (?) [Pollard] born. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy
supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] November 29, 1855 Phillip D. Pollard Sr. and Lizzie [Elizabeth] Tereser (?) marry
in Independence, Missouri. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy supplied by Hank
Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] February 21, 1857 Louis Edgar Pollard born in Independence, Missouri. He grew
up in Denison and later moved to Los Angeles, California. His wife’s name was
Belle. They had one child, Ruth Pollard (Mrs. Robert Boaz Sr.). Ruth and Robert
had only one child, Robert (“Bobby Burt”) Boaz Jr. [Source: Pollard family
Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] March 26, 1859 Phillip
Denver (“Phip”) Pollard Jr. born in Independence, Missouri. His wife will be
named Vena Smith. [Source: Pollard family Bible and undated newspaper clipping,
both supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] May 27, 1861 Fannie
Waterman Pollard (later Mrs. Louis Lebrecht #1) born in Independence, Missouri.
[Sources: Tombstone, Fairview Cemetery, Denison, Texas; and Pollard family
Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] May 1, 1866 Lilly
M. Pollard (later Anderson, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky) born in Independence,
Missouri. She is sister of the two wives of Louis Lebrecht. [Source: Pollard
family Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] March 9, 1868 Carrie
Belle Pollard (later Mrs. Louis Lebrecht #2) born in Independence, Missouri.
[Sources: “Mrs. L. Lebrecht, Widow”; Pollard family Bible, copy supplied by
Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] 1871
Carrie
Belle Pollard (later Mrs. Louis Lebrecht #2) moves with her family in a covered
wagon from Independence, Missouri, to Pilot Point, Texas. [Source: “Mrs. L.
Lebrecht, Widow”] 1872
Carrie
Belle Pollard (later Mrs. Louis Lebrecht #2) moves with her family from Pilot
Point, Texas, to Denison, Texas. [Source: “Mrs. L. Lebrecht, Widow”] 1876-1877 Phillip
D. Pollard Sr., had brought his family from Independence, Missouri, by covered
wagon, to Pilot Point, Texas, and then to Denison. A tinsmith, he has a shop at
319 West Main Street. He resides on the south side of Main Street between
Mirick and Armstrong avenues. [Source: City Directory; Hank Lebrecht, 1996] 1876-1877 Phillip
Pollard Jr. works at J. [John] B. Lalonde, cotton gin and grist mill [“Denison Cotton Gin and Corn Mill; Highest
cash price paid for grain and cotton seed”]. Boards with his father, Phillip
Pollard Sr. [Source: City Directory] 1880
Louis
Lebrecht marries Fannie Pollard, daughter of Phillip D. Pollard Sr. [Source:
Hank Lebrecht, 1996] 1880
According
to Hank Lebrecht (1996), Louis Lebrecht married Fannie W. Pollard in 1880. The
U.S. Census Schedule for 1880 lists Louis Lebrecht and wife Fannie W. living on
Gandy Street, Denison, Texas, in June 1880. See also an elaborate monument at
Fairview Cemetery, which reads “Fannie W. Lebrecht, nee Pollard, wife of Louis
Lebrecht.” And Sunday Gazetteer editor B. C. Murray, in Louis Lebrecht’s
obituary (December 7, 1902), states that Louis was married twice, to sisters.
However, at the Grayson County Courthouse, I could not find any record of the
marriage between Fannie and Louis. And in August 18, 1956, Walter P. Lebrecht,
still a Denison City Commissioner, signed a sworn affidavit declaring that
“Louis Lebrecht or L. Lebrecht was married only one time and that was to my
mother Carrie B. Lebrecht. . . . My father was married only one time and that
was to my mother.” And two elderly women, Rosalee Herzinger and Adele R. Kohl,
longtime members of the German-American community in Denison, similarly swore
that “the said Louis Lebrecht . . . was never married but one time and that was
to his wife, Carrie B. Lebrecht.” [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol.
842, pp. 339-44] December 21, 1882 Fannie Waterman Pollard Lebrecht dies. Buried in the Pollard
plot at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; Pollard family Bible,
copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] November 4, 1884 Lizzie
[Elizabeth] Tereser (?) Pollard [wife of Phillip D. Pollard Sr.] dies. Buried
in Fairview Cemetery, Denison. He will not remarry. [Source: Tombstone; Pollard
family Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] April 30, 1885 Louis
Lebrecht and Carrie Belle Pollard are married by C. J. Hinkle, Justice of the
Peace, Precinct No. 1, Grayson County. They live at 530 West Crawford Street.
[Sources: Marriage certificate, Grayson County Courthouse; Hank Lebrecht, 1996] 1887-1888 Louis
Lebrecht lives at 706 West Main Street. Also living there are Phillip D.
Pollard Sr., Phillip D. Pollard Jr., and Edward L. Pollard. [Source: City
Directory] 1887-1888 Phillip
D. Pollard Sr. is a tinner living at 706 West Main Street. [Source: City
Directory] 1887-1888 Phillip
D. Pollard Jr. works at Waters-Pierce Oil Co. He lives at 706 West Main Street.
Also living there is Edward L. Pollard, a tinner employed at Hanna, Leeper
& Co. [Source: City Directory] April 26, 1889 P.
D. Pollard, L. E. Pollard, P. D. Pollard Jr., Lillie May Pollard, Louis
Lebrecht, and Louis’s wife Carrie Belle Pollard Lebrecht sell Lots 4 and 5,
Block 2, Layne’s Addition [708 West Main Street], Denison, to Hazen F. Wooster
for $4,000. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 81, p. 28] May 8, 1889 Louis
Lebrecht and wife Carrie Belle Pollard Lebrecht sell to Philip D. Pollard 29
acres on Iron Ore Creek (described as two tracts: one of 28 acres out of the
William Oldham Survey, and another of 1 acre out of the I. G. Belcher Survey)
for $300. Harrison Tone is notary. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol.
81, p. 87; see also Vol. 65, p. 622; and Vol. 81, p. 27] 1889-1890 Louis
Lebrecht’s business in “wholesale cigars, tobacco, and pipes” is at 100 West
Main Street. His residence is at 512 West Woodard Street. In 1893-1894, Fred
Lebrecht will live here with Phillip D. Pollard Sr. and Louis E. Pollard.
[Source: City Directory] 1889-1890 Phillip
Pollard, a tinner, lives at 1009 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory] 1889-1890 P.
D. Pollard is a tinner employed at Hanna, Cowles & Co., a hardware house at
111 West Main Street. He lives at 113 West Woodard Street. [Source: City
Directory] 1889-1890 L.
[Louis] E. Pollard is a tinner employed at Lingo, Waples & Co., a wholesale
hardware house. He resides at 113 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory] 1891-1892 Phillip
D. Pollard Jr. is a tinner at Leeper Hardware Co. He rooms at 702 West Main
Street. Phillip D. Pollard Sr. is not listed in City Directory. [Source: City
Directory] 1891-1892 Louis
E. Pollard is a tinner at Leeper Hardware Co. His residence is at 515 North
Burnett Avenue. [Source: City Directory] 1891-1892 Edward
[L.] Pollard is foreman tinner at Leeper Hardware Co. His residence is at 515
North Burnett Avenue. [Source: City Directory] 1891-1892 The
City Directory lists two “colored” Pollards. Lizzie Pollard lives in the home
of David Miller (colored), hod carrier, residence at 220 West Crawford Street.
Oscar Pollard lives at 301 West Bond Street; no occupation is given. [Source:
City Directory] 1893-1894 Fred
Lebrecht resides at 512 West Woodard Street. Also living at this address are
Phillip D. Pollard Sr. and Louis E. Pollard. [Source: City Directory] 1893-1894 The
firm of Pollard & Creager is at 305 West Main Street. “Wholesale and Retail
Hardware, Stoves, Guns, Fishing Tackle, Cutlery, Tinware. Tin and Sheet-Iron
Work a Specialty.” Owners are L. [Louis] E. Pollard and John W. Creager.
Creager resides at 600 West Munson Street. [Sources: City Directory; 1894
invoice letterhead in Estate of Thomas Lindenfelser, Grayson County Probate
Records, File No. 1107] 1893-1894 Louis
E. Pollard lives at 512 West Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory] 1893-1894 Phillip
D. Pollard Sr. is employed at Pollard and Creager. He lives at 512 West Woodard
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1893-1894 Phillip
D. Pollard Jr. is employed at Pollard & Creager. He rooms at 504 West Main
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1893-1894 There
are no “colored” Pollards listed in the City Directory for this year. 1894
William
H. Pollard born. His father is Charles Y. Pollard. [Source: City of Denison
death records, Book 6, Page 175] 1896-1897 Pollard,
Hoerr & Co. is at 305 West Main Street. Principals are L. E. Pollard, Louis
Hoerr, and Stephen T. Brown. The firm offers “wholesale and retail hardware,
queensware, tinware, stoves, guns, cutlery, etc.” Also “shelf [and] heavy
hardware.” [Source: City Directory] 1896-1897 William
Hill (colored) is porter at Pollard, Hoerr & Co.; he resides at 1122 West
Day Street. Also living there are Charles Hill (colored), laborer; and Robert
Hill (colored), laborer, who lives at the back of the property. William D. Hill
(colored) is a teacher and resides at 620 West Morton Street. Also living there
is Randol H. Hill, shoemaker at 211 South Austin Avenue. 1896-1897 Louis
Hoerr resides at 503 West Main Street. Also residing there is John L. Hoerr,
bookkeeper at Pollard, Hoerr & Co. [Source: City Directory] 1896-1897 Louis
E. Pollard lives at 605 West Gandy Street. [Source: City Directory] 1896-1897 Anna
Yocum (colored), cook, L. E. Pollard; she lives at 713 North Rusk Avenue.
[Source: City Directory] 1896-1897 Phillip
D. Pollard [Sr.] is a tinner at Pollard, Hoerr & Co. His residence is at
729 West Gandy, where he lives with Louis and Carrie Lebrecht. [Source: City
Directory] 1896-1897 Phillip
D. Pollard Jr. is a tinner at Pollard, Hoerr & Co. He resides on South
Fannin Avenue beyond the city limits. [Source: City Directory] 1898-1899 Pollard,
Hoerr & Co. is at 305 West Main Street. Nearby, at 309 West Main Street, is
W. A. Hallenbeck, Confectioner and Bakery. [Source: City Directory] 1899-1900 Louis
E. Pollard is a metal worker at 120 North Burnett Avenue. He is married and
residing at 605 West Gandy Street. Also living there is Phillip D. Pollard Sr,
a tinner at L. E. Pollard. [Source: City Directory] 1899-1900 Phillip
D. Pollard Jr. is a tinner at L. E. Pollard. He lives at 1021 West Woodard
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1899-1900 James
P. Pollard (colored) is a porter at Katy Railway. He is married and residing at
122 West Walker. [Source: City Directory] December 1, 1902 Louis
Lebrecht dies intestate (no will). Funeral takes place at Vorwaerts Hall, and
burial is in the Pollard plot at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. The Twin City Band
plays. August Knecht (1847-1914), Attorney E. J. Smith (1866-1925), and Isaac
Yeidel deliver eulogies. Pallbearers are L. M. Fitzgerald, William Geiger,
Alexander Margill, B. C. Murray, Charles Pascal, and Theodore Wahls. [Source:
Murray, 1902; Hank Lebrecht, 1996; Tombstones, Fairview Cemetery, Denison] August 20, 1903 Walter
P. Lebrecht’s maternal grandfather, Phillip Denver Pollard Sr., dies. Burial is
in Pollard plot at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; Hank
Lebrecht, 1996 and 2006] [DATE?] 1904 Carrie
Belle Lebrecht, youngest of the seven children of Louis Lebrecht and Carrie
Pollard Lebrecht, dies. Burial is at Fairview Cemetery, Denison. [Sources:
Tombstone; Hank Lebrecht, 1996] February 9, 1904 Carrie
B. Pollard Lebrecht attests that she has sold to Miss Mayme Garbutt two liens
on Lot 9, Block 9, Miller’s First Addition [729 West Gandy Street], Denison,
one for $784 and the other for $482, a total of $1,266. Apparently, Carrie has
decided to dispose of the Gandy Street house and buy property on the edge of
town from her brother, P. D. Pollard Jr. In a deposition taken on March 29,
1904, and recorded on April 16, 1904, Carrie states that two “Vendors Lien
notes” from 1890, one for $450 and one for $750, existed on the Gandy Street
homestead at the time of Louis Lebrecht’s death in December 1902. In January 1903,
Carrie purchased these liens “with funds received from the Equitable Life
Assurance Society of New York on a policy written for said Louis Lebrecht and
payable to her, the said Carrie B. Lebrecht. Said funds being her own separate
funds, and deponent further swears that she has never come into possession of
any community funds since the death of her said husband, with which she could
pay off and satisfy said indebtedness.” Early in 1904, Carrie herself sells
these liens to Miss Mayme Garbutt (via her trustee, S. P. Ancker, head of
Denison Bank and Trust Company). Then, in April 1904, when Carrie sells the
Gandy Street property to C. A. and Rosie Hoffman, they assume responsibility
for paying off these Garbutt liens. Presumably, these maneuvers allow Carrie to
recapture her insurance money, plus $500 cash paid by the Hoffmans. [Source:
Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 89, p. 521; Vol. 125, p. 596; Vol. 156, pp.
387-89 and 397-401; and Vol. 182, p. 402] March 4, 1904 Carrie
B. Lebrecht purchases from P. D. Pollard Jr. Blocks 1 through 12 in Pollard’s
Addition, Denison (also described as two tracts on Iron Ore Creek: one of 28
acres out of the William Oldham Survey, and another of 1 acre out of the I. G.
Belcher Survey), for $1,500, payable in one year. This note was informally
transferred from Pollard to Miss Mayme Garbutt in the interim. The note was
paid off, and a release (signed by both Pollard and Garbutt) was recorded on
October 10, 1905, finalizing the sale to Carrie Lebrecht. Incidentally, this
property was the same land Louis Lebrecht and Carrie Lebrecht sold to Phillip
D. Pollard for $300 on May 8, 1889. [Sources: Grayson County Deed Records, Vol.
156, pp. 84-85; and Vol. 170, p. 24; see also Vol. 81, pp. 27 and 87; and Vol.
65, p. 622] 1907
Carrie
B. Lebrecht and children live at 2700 South Fannin Avenue. Perhaps this is
where Phillip D. Pollard Jr. lived in 1896-97. [Source: City Directory] 1907
Owl
Drug Store, 116 North Austin Avenue. Proprietors are Thomas T. McKinney
(colored) and James P. Pollard (colored). McKinney, a physician, lives at 1330
West Bond Street. Pollard lives at 122 West Walker. [Source: City Directory] January 5, 1908 Louis
Edgar Pollard, brother of Carrie Lebrecht, dies. [Source: Hank Lebrecht, April
22, 2006] 1917
Phillip
D. Pollard [Jr.] is a confectioner at 427 West Main Street. He and wife Verna
live on the premises. [Source: City Directory] 1917
Horace
Pollard is a fireman for the MKT Railway; he rooms at 301 East Chestnut Street.
[Source: City Directory] 1917
William
J. Pollard is a telegraph operator for St. LSF&T Railroad. He rooms at
105-1/2 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory] 1917
James
P. Pollard (colored) is a porter. He and wife Clara live at 122 West Walker
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1917
Thomas
Pollard (colored) is a porter. He and wife Millie P. live at 118 East Johnson
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1927-1928 All
Pollards listed in the City Directory are “colored.” 1929
All
Pollards listed in the City Directory are “colored.” 1934
At
100 West Main Street is the Da-Nite Cafe. Louis H. Lebrecht is proprietor.
Phillip B. [sic] Pollard is cashier. He and wife Vena live above the
cafe at 100-1/2 West Main Street. [Source: City Directory] 1936
William
H. Pollard dies on June 13, at age 41 years, 11 months, and 14 days. [Source:
City of Denison death records, Book 6, Page 175] 1940
All
Pollards listed in the City Directory are “colored.” September 6, 1955 Carrie Belle Pollard Lebrecht dies in Los Angeles, California,
at age 87. She had never remarried. [Sources: “Mrs. L. Lebrecht, Widow”;
Affidavit given by Louis Lebrecht, Grayson County Deed Records, Vol. 842, pp.
339-42] August 18, 1956 Walter
P. Lebrecht signs a sworn affidavit concerning the title to Lots 1 and 2, Block
53, Original Town Plat [100 and 102 West Main Street], Denison. Rosalee
Herzinger and Adele R. Kohl, elderly members of Denison’s German-American
community, provide supporting affidavits. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records,
Vol. 842, pp. 339-44] Note: Walter Lebrecht, at the time serving as a City
Commissioner in Denison, appears to have lied under oath in this statement. He
swore that his father had never been married to anyone other than his mother,
Carrie B. Pollard Lebrecht. Surely Walter was aware that Louis Lebrecht had
been married to Carrie’s sister, Fannie W. Pollard, before marrying Carrie. The
two elderly women also may have lied. [What about Lilly M. Pollard
Anderson? This was Carrie’s sister, Hank’s “Aunt Lil,” who lived in
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and died after 1955. She used to send the family pecans
for Christmas.] Note: Pollard relatives had a big car dealership in Glendale,
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