Carroll-Tippecanoe County IN Archives Biographies.....Pollard, Lydia P. 1822 - 1908 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 17, 2006, 7:15 pm Author: John C. Odell (1916) LYDIA P. POLLARD. Lydia P. Pollard was born in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, December 9, 1822, and came to America at the age of ten years. She moved to Americus, in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and resided with her brothers, Drs. Charles and Anthony Garrett, and later went with her brother, Charles, to Mobile, Alabama, where, in 1844, she was united in marriage to Robert P. Pollard. Following the death of her husband in 1857 and the ruin of her plantation during the war, she left the South with her four children and came to Delphi. She died on March 14, 1908, leaving two sons, G. R. and Robert C. and two daughters; Mrs. C. B. Lyons and Mrs. Charles Case. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS BY JOHN C ODELL With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ILLUSTRATED 1916 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana CHAPTER IX. BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/pollard49nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb