Benjamin Pollard is believed to have been born in September 1874 at
Garrard County, Kentucky.
2 He was the son of
Robert Pollard and
Lucy Jane Bourne.
1 Conflicting evidence places his birth circa 1877 at
Kentucky.
3 Benjamin Pollard married
Minervia Speake, daughter of
Edwin R. Speake and
Margaret A. Pollard, in 1911 at
Garrard County, Kentucky.
1 Benjamin was also known as Ben Pollard.
3 The fourteenth United States census was taken in 1920. Benjamin was enumerated as "Ben Pollard", head of a household at Lancaster Township, Garrard County, Kentucky. His given age was 43 and his given place of birth was Kentucky. He was married, and he could not read or write. Enumerated with him was his wife,
Minervia Pollard. Also enumerated in his household was
Lillian Pollard.
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