When James Wiley Pollock was born on 21 June 1861, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States, his father, Benjamin A Pollock, was 40 and his mother, Sarah Caroline Blankenship, was 37. He married Lydia Evelyn Ocheltree on 12 January 1890. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Esculapia Township, Benton, Arkansas, United States for about 20 years. In 1880, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as farm laborer. He died on 16 October 1934, in Rogers, Benton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Paces Chapel Cemetery, Benton, Arkansas, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Glasgow, probably a British Celtic name derived from pull-, poll- ‘pool’ + a diminutive suffix. The surname has been established in northeast Ulster since the 17th century.
German: ethnic name for someone from Poland.
Americanized form of Jewish Polak .
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