- Pollard, Mary Willis {nee Stirman}
- The announcement of the death of Mrs. Dr. Pollard yesterday morning was not a surprise. All hope of her recovery was given up several days ago and with sorrowing hearts her husband; children and friends have been waiting the inevitable.
- Miss Mary Willis Stirman was born in Mercer County Kentucky the 17th of September 1810 and was married to Dr. T.J. Pollard in Nicholasville Kentucky April 14th 1830. In 1869 she came with her husband to Fayetteville, Arkansas where they have resided ever since, loved, honored and respected by all who knew them.
- She was the daughter of Rev. Wm. Stirman, a prominent minister of the Christian Church. In 1830 she united with that church and was a faithful and zealous Christian. On the 14th of April 1880 she and her husband celebrated their golden wedding on which occasion 400 friends were present to offer congratulations. The Encyclopedia of the New West has the following in reference to this noble lady. “Mrs. Pollard is a good scholar, a woman of decision, never forms opinions without evidence and when her opinions are formed she is not given to change; has good conversational powers, attachments, energy of character, is charitable to the poor; always open to the needy, notably so during the war. The occasion of their golden wedding was a grand tribute to their worth from all classes and creeds of good people; something of which the venerable couple, their children and grand children may well be proud.” [Fayetteville Democrat 12/3/1886]
- The subject of this sketch was born in Nicholasville Kentucky September 17, 1810; she was the daughter of Rev. Wm Stirman, a minister of the Christian church. She was educated and grew to womanhood in her native town where she was married to Dr. T.J. Pollard April 14, 1830, the venerable Jacob Creath, senior officiating. This young couple at once took up their residence in Versailles, Ky. where the doctor was engaged in the practice of medicine.
- While living in Versailles Mrs. Pollard became a Christian and united with the Christian Church, under the preaching of Jacob Creath, junior, one of the ablest and most distinguished preachers of his day. After a residence of one year in Versailles she moved with her husband to Palmyra, Missouri where they remained seven years and in the spring of 1839 they came to Fayetteville Arkansas and here she continued to reside till her death.
- She and her husband celebrated their golden wedding in this city in 1880, some 400 guests being present to congratulate them on the 50th anniversary of their marriage. In October 1855 she had her arm broken from the effects of which she never entirely recovered; but gradually grew weaker and weaker until Thursday morning, Nov. 25, whe she gently fell into her final sleep. For a year before her death she was confined to her room and toward the last was a great sufferer; but when the final hour came the pain subsided and her face was as beautiful as a sleeping babe and as she lay wrapped in her winding sheet, was the picture of perfect rest and peace.
- N.M.R. Fayetteville, Ark., Nov.30, 1886. [Fayetteville Democrat 12/3/86]
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Pollard Page - Miss Mary Willis Stirman was born in Mercer County Kentucky the 17th of September 1810 and was married to Dr. T.J. Pollard in Nicholasville Kentucky April 14th 1830. In 1869 she came with her husband to Fayetteville, Arkansas where they have resided ever since, loved, honored and respected by all who knew them.