A letter from Howard Hazelwood:

Regarding your recent letter, Jeanelle Collier and I discovered early in our Lenderman research that the Pollard family lived next to the Lenderman family in Greenville County, SC. Enclosed are family group sheets for Benjamin G. Pollard Sr. and our Benjamin G. Pollard, Jr. made in 1982. Since we could never prove for sure that James Pollard was a son of Benjamin G. Pollard, Jr. and Sarah Pollard was his daughter, we did not wish to publish our research. Based on the 1810 census record for Greenville County, SC Benjamin Pollard Jr. had four sons and one daughter. We have fair proof he had an additional daughter born ca. 1820. I feel he had other children before his second marriage to Rachel Parks on 6 Dec 1829. he had eleven children by Rachel that are fairly well proven. The name of his first wife was thought to be Sarah but cannot be proven.

James Pollard is listed on the 1850 Cherokee County Census, pages 102-B and 103-A as follows:

Name sex age born
James Pollard M 46 SC
Caroline " F 43 SC
Rebecca F 22 SC
Henry M 17 AL
Nancy F 15 AL
Sidney F 13 AL
Caroline F 11 AL
Benjamin M 9 AL
Reuben M 6 AL
Martha F 4 AL
Ezekiel M 3/12 AL

You can see Sarah Pollard (age 19) would fit very well after Rebecca and before Henry. She had married Levi Lenderman by 1850. Sidney Pollard (age 13) later married Henry Lenderman, brother of Levi. James, Caroline, and Rebecca could not read or write and James owned no land. He died between 1850 and 1860. Levi and Sarah named a daughter Rebecca (probably after Sarah's sister). They also named their first son Henry (after the father of Levi and/or brother of Sarah and/or her grandfather. Caroline Pollard lived in Cherokee County until 1899 with her land going to her daughter, Nancy Cumby, and Thomas Cumby. The other children had left the county. The 1840 census for Cherokee County has so many errors you cannot use it for most of our families. We cannot find James Pollard on the 1830 or 1840 census. There is a James Pollard listed on the 1840 census but it will not fit. The Pollard history may never be proven for sure. We do not wish to claim a line that cannot be proven.

• Married: Abt 1826 in Greenville County, SC

1. Rebecca POLLARD b: 1828 in South Carolina
2. Sarah Alice POLLARD b: Abt 1831 in Alabama
3. Henry POLLARD b: 1833 in Alabama
4. Nancy POLLARD b: 1835 in Alabama
5. Sidney POLLARD b: 1837 in Alabama
6. Caroline POLLARD b: 1839 in Alabama
7. Benjamin POLLARD b: 1841 in Alabama
8. Reuben POLLARD b: 1844 in Alabama
9. Martha POLLARD b: 1846 in Alabama
10. Ezekiel POLLARD b: 1850 in Alabama