Biography of Willis Pollard, Clay Co, AR

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The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of N. E. Ark.
Biographical Information.

Willis W. Pollard, druggist of Piggott, Ark., was born in Union County, Ill., in
March, 1852, being the son of John and Nellie (Leight) Pollard, who were also of
Illinois nativity. In 1854 they moved to what is now Clay County, Ark., where
the father died in 1861, after which Willis W. Pollard moved back to Illinois
with his mother, and there made his home until 1883. He was in the family
grocery business for two years prior to coming to Arkansas, and after removing
to this State first engaged in the merchandise trade, and has been one of the
prominent business men of the place. In July, 1884, he was appointed station
agent for the railroad at Piggott, which position he is filling at the present
time, being the first and only agent at this point. The firm of W. W. Pollard &
Co., druggists, has just been organized, and they carry a well selected stock of
drugs, medicines, paints, oils, cigars and tobacco. Mr. Pollard has been married
twice; first, in Illinois in September, 1873, to Mary Casper, a native of Union
County, Ill., who died there in December, 1876, having borne three children:
Martha I., C. Otto, and an infant, deceased. In 1877 Mr. Pollard married his
present wife, whose maiden name was Amelia Beaver, who was born, reared and
married in Union County, Ill., and by her became the father of five children,
Charles W. being the only one living, four dying in infancy. Mr. Pollard is an
older in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which his wife is also a member,
and he has filled all the chairs in the I. O. O. F., and is the present District
Deputy Grand Master.