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Pollards of Denison
July 6, 1821
Phillip Denver Pollard Sr. born in
Virginia. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy
supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] March
1, 1839
Lizzie [Elizabeth] Tereser (?) [Pollard]
born. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy
supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] November 29, 1855
Phillip D. Pollard Sr. and Lizzie
[Elizabeth] Tereser (?) marry in Independence,
Missouri. [Source: Pollard family Bible, copy
supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] February 21, 1857
Louis Edgar Pollard born in Independence,
Missouri. He grew up in Denison and later moved
to Los Angeles, California. His wife’s name was
Belle. They had one child, Ruth Pollard (Mrs.
Robert Boaz Sr.). Ruth and Robert had only one
child, Robert (“Bobby Burt”) Boaz Jr. [Source:
Pollard family Bible, copy supplied by Hank
Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] March 26, 1859
Phillip Denver (“Phip”) Pollard Jr. born
in Independence, Missouri. His wife will be
named Vena Smith. [Source: Pollard family Bible
and undated newspaper clipping, both supplied by
Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] May 27, 1861
Fannie Waterman Pollard (later Mrs. Louis
Lebrecht #1) born in Independence, Missouri.
[Sources: Tombstone, Fairview Cemetery, Denison,
Texas; and Pollard family Bible, copy supplied
by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] May 1, 1866
Lilly M. Pollard (later Anderson, of
Hopkinsville, Kentucky) born in Independence,
Missouri. She is sister of the two wives of
Louis Lebrecht. [Source: Pollard family Bible,
copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] March 9, 1868
Carrie Belle Pollard (later Mrs. Louis
Lebrecht #2) born in Independence, Missouri.
[Sources: “Mrs. L. Lebrecht, Widow”; Pollard
family Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht,
April 22, 2006] 1871
Carrie Belle Pollard (later Mrs. Louis
Lebrecht #2) moves with her family in a covered
wagon from Independence, Missouri, to Pilot
Point, Texas. [Source: “Mrs. L. Lebrecht,
Widow”] 1872
Carrie Belle Pollard (later Mrs. Louis
Lebrecht #2) moves with her family from Pilot
Point, Texas, to Denison, Texas. [Source: “Mrs.
L. Lebrecht, Widow”] 1876-1877
Phillip D. Pollard Sr., had brought his
family from Independence, Missouri, by covered
wagon, to Pilot Point, Texas, and then to
Denison. A tinsmith, he has a shop at 319 West
Main Street. He resides on the south side of
Main Street between Mirick and Armstrong
avenues. [Source: City Directory; Hank Lebrecht,
1996] 1876-1877
Phillip Pollard Jr. works at J. [John] B.
Lalonde, cotton gin and grist mill
[“Denison Cotton Gin and Corn Mill;
Highest cash price paid for grain and cotton
seed”]. Boards with his father, Phillip Pollard
Sr. [Source: City Directory] 1880
Louis Lebrecht marries Fannie Pollard,
daughter of Phillip D. Pollard Sr. [Source: Hank
Lebrecht, 1996] 1880
According to Hank Lebrecht (1996), Louis
Lebrecht married Fannie W. Pollard in 1880. The
U.S. Census Schedule for 1880 lists Louis
Lebrecht and wife Fannie W. living on Gandy
Street, Denison, Texas, in June 1880. See also
an elaborate monument at Fairview Cemetery,
which reads “Fannie W. Lebrecht, nee Pollard,
wife of Louis Lebrecht.” And Sunday
Gazetteer editor B. C. Murray, in Louis
Lebrecht’s obituary (December 7, 1902), states
that Louis was married twice, to sisters.
However, at the Grayson County Courthouse, I
could not find any record of the marriage
between Fannie and Louis. And in August 18,
1956, Walter P. Lebrecht, still a Denison City
Commissioner, signed a sworn affidavit declaring
that “Louis Lebrecht or L. Lebrecht was married
only one time and that was to my mother Carrie
B. Lebrecht. . . . My father was married only
one time and that was to my mother.” And two
elderly women, Rosalee Herzinger and Adele R.
Kohl, longtime members of the German-American
community in Denison, similarly swore that “the
said Louis Lebrecht . . . was never married but
one time and that was to his wife, Carrie B.
Lebrecht.” [Source: Grayson County Deed Records,
Vol. 842, pp. 339-44] December 21, 1882
Fannie Waterman Pollard Lebrecht dies.
Buried in the Pollard plot at Fairview Cemetery,
Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; Pollard family
Bible, copy supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22,
2006] November 4, 1884
Lizzie [Elizabeth] Tereser (?) Pollard
[wife of Phillip D. Pollard Sr.] dies. Buried in
Fairview Cemetery, Denison. He will not remarry.
[Source: Tombstone; Pollard family Bible, copy
supplied by Hank Lebrecht, April 22, 2006] April 30, 1885
Louis Lebrecht and Carrie Belle Pollard
are married by C. J. Hinkle, Justice of the
Peace, Precinct No. 1, Grayson County. They live
at 530 West Crawford Street. [Sources: Marriage
certificate, Grayson County Courthouse; Hank
Lebrecht, 1996] 1887-1888
Louis Lebrecht lives at 706 West Main
Street. Also living there are Phillip D. Pollard
Sr., Phillip D. Pollard Jr., and Edward L.
Pollard. [Source: City Directory] 1887-1888
Phillip D. Pollard Sr. is a tinner living
at 706 West Main Street. [Source: City
Directory] 1887-1888
Phillip D. Pollard Jr. works at
Waters-Pierce Oil Co. He lives at 706 West Main
Street. Also living there is Edward L. Pollard,
a tinner employed at Hanna, Leeper & Co.
[Source: City Directory] April 26, 1889
P. D. Pollard, L. E. Pollard, P. D.
Pollard Jr., Lillie May Pollard, Louis Lebrecht,
and Louis’s wife Carrie Belle Pollard Lebrecht
sell Lots 4 and 5, Block 2, Layne’s Addition
[708 West Main Street], Denison, to Hazen F.
Wooster for $4,000. [Source: Grayson County Deed
Records, Vol. 81, p. 28] May 8, 1889
Louis Lebrecht and wife Carrie Belle
Pollard Lebrecht sell to Philip D. Pollard 29
acres on Iron Ore Creek (described as two
tracts: one of 28 acres out of the William
Oldham Survey, and another of 1 acre out of the
I. G. Belcher Survey) for $300. Harrison Tone is
notary. [Source: Grayson County Deed Records,
Vol. 81, p. 87; see also Vol. 65, p. 622; and
Vol. 81, p. 27] 1889-1890
Louis Lebrecht’s business in “wholesale
cigars, tobacco, and pipes” is at 100 West Main
Street. His residence is at 512 West Woodard
Street. In 1893-1894, Fred Lebrecht will live
here with Phillip D. Pollard Sr. and Louis E.
Pollard. [Source: City Directory] 1889-1890
Phillip Pollard, a tinner, lives at 1009
West Main Street. [Source: City Directory] 1889-1890
P. D. Pollard is a tinner employed at
Hanna, Cowles & Co., a hardware house at 111
West Main Street. He lives at 113 West Woodard
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1889-1890
L. [Louis] E. Pollard is a tinner
employed at Lingo, Waples & Co., a wholesale
hardware house. He resides at 113 West Woodard
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1891-1892
Phillip D. Pollard Jr. is a tinner at
Leeper Hardware Co. He rooms at 702 West Main
Street. Phillip D. Pollard Sr. is not listed in
City Directory. [Source: City Directory] 1891-1892
Louis E. Pollard is a tinner at Leeper
Hardware Co. His residence is at 515 North
Burnett Avenue. [Source: City Directory] 1891-1892
Edward [L.] Pollard is foreman tinner at
Leeper Hardware Co. His residence is at 515
North Burnett Avenue. [Source: City Directory] 1891-1892
The City Directory lists two “colored”
Pollards. Lizzie Pollard lives in the home of
David Miller (colored), hod carrier, residence
at 220 West Crawford Street. Oscar Pollard lives
at 301 West Bond Street; no occupation is given.
[Source: City Directory] 1893-1894
Fred Lebrecht resides at 512 West Woodard
Street. Also living at this address are Phillip
D. Pollard Sr. and Louis E. Pollard. [Source:
City Directory] 1893-1894
The firm of Pollard & Creager is at
305 West Main Street. “Wholesale and Retail
Hardware, Stoves, Guns, Fishing Tackle, Cutlery,
Tinware. Tin and Sheet-Iron Work a Specialty.”
Owners are L. [Louis] E. Pollard and John W.
Creager. Creager resides at 600 West Munson
Street. [Sources: City Directory; 1894 invoice
letterhead in Estate of Thomas Lindenfelser,
Grayson County Probate Records, File No. 1107] 1893-1894
Louis E. Pollard lives at 512 West
Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory] 1893-1894
Phillip D. Pollard Sr. is employed at
Pollard and Creager. He lives at 512 West
Woodard Street. [Source: City Directory] 1893-1894
Phillip D. Pollard Jr. is employed at
Pollard & Creager. He rooms at 504 West Main
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1893-1894
There are no “colored” Pollards listed in
the City Directory for this year. 1894
William H. Pollard born. His father is
Charles Y. Pollard. [Source: City of Denison
death records, Book 6, Page 175] 1896-1897
Pollard, Hoerr & Co. is at 305 West
Main Street. Principals are L. E. Pollard, Louis
Hoerr, and Stephen T. Brown. The firm offers
“wholesale and retail hardware, queensware,
tinware, stoves, guns, cutlery, etc.” Also
“shelf [and] heavy hardware.” [Source: City
Directory] 1896-1897
William Hill (colored) is porter at
Pollard, Hoerr & Co.; he resides at 1122
West Day Street. Also living there are Charles
Hill (colored), laborer; and Robert Hill
(colored), laborer, who lives at the back of the
property. William D. Hill (colored) is a teacher
and resides at 620 West Morton Street. Also
living there is Randol H. Hill, shoemaker at 211
South Austin Avenue. 1896-1897
Louis Hoerr resides at 503 West Main
Street. Also residing there is John L. Hoerr,
bookkeeper at Pollard, Hoerr & Co. [Source:
City Directory] 1896-1897
Louis E. Pollard lives at 605 West Gandy
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1896-1897
Anna Yocum (colored), cook, L. E.
Pollard; she lives at 713 North Rusk Avenue.
[Source: City Directory] 1896-1897
Phillip D. Pollard [Sr.] is a tinner at
Pollard, Hoerr & Co. His residence is at 729
West Gandy, where he lives with Louis and Carrie
Lebrecht. [Source: City Directory] 1896-1897
Phillip D. Pollard Jr. is a tinner at
Pollard, Hoerr & Co. He resides on South
Fannin Avenue beyond the city limits. [Source:
City Directory] 1898-1899
Pollard, Hoerr & Co. is at 305 West
Main Street. Nearby, at 309 West Main Street, is
W. A. Hallenbeck, Confectioner and Bakery.
[Source: City Directory] 1899-1900
Louis E. Pollard is a metal worker at 120
North Burnett Avenue. He is married and residing
at 605 West Gandy Street. Also living there is
Phillip D. Pollard Sr, a tinner at L. E.
Pollard. [Source: City Directory] 1899-1900
Phillip D. Pollard Jr. is a tinner at L.
E. Pollard. He lives at 1021 West Woodard
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1899-1900
James P. Pollard (colored) is a porter at
Katy Railway. He is married and residing at 122
West Walker. [Source: City Directory] December 1, 1902
Louis Lebrecht dies intestate (no will).
Funeral takes place at Vorwaerts Hall, and
burial is in the Pollard plot at Fairview
Cemetery, Denison. The Twin City Band plays.
August Knecht (1847-1914), Attorney E. J. Smith
(1866-1925), and Isaac Yeidel deliver eulogies.
Pallbearers are L. M. Fitzgerald, William
Geiger, Alexander Margill, B. C. Murray, Charles
Pascal, and Theodore Wahls. [Source: Murray,
1902; Hank Lebrecht, 1996; Tombstones, Fairview
Cemetery, Denison] August 20, 1903
Walter P. Lebrecht’s maternal
grandfather, Phillip Denver Pollard Sr., dies.
Burial is in Pollard plot at Fairview Cemetery,
Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; Hank Lebrecht,
1996 and 2006] [DATE?] 1904
Carrie Belle Lebrecht, youngest of the
seven children of Louis Lebrecht and Carrie
Pollard Lebrecht, dies. Burial is at Fairview
Cemetery, Denison. [Sources: Tombstone; Hank
Lebrecht, 1996] February 9, 1904
Carrie B. Pollard Lebrecht attests that
she has sold to Miss Mayme Garbutt two liens on
Lot 9, Block 9, Miller’s First Addition [729
West Gandy Street], Denison, one for $784 and
the other for $482, a total of $1,266.
Apparently, Carrie has decided to dispose of the
Gandy Street house and buy property on the edge
of town from her brother, P. D. Pollard Jr. In a
deposition taken on March 29, 1904, and recorded
on April 16, 1904, Carrie states that two
“Vendors Lien notes” from 1890, one for $450 and
one for $750, existed on the Gandy Street
homestead at the time of Louis Lebrecht’s death
in December 1902. In January 1903, Carrie
purchased these liens “with funds received from
the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York
on a policy written for said Louis Lebrecht and
payable to her, the said Carrie B. Lebrecht.
Said funds being her own separate funds, and
deponent further swears that she has never come
into possession of any community funds since the
death of her said husband, with which she could
pay off and satisfy said indebtedness.” Early in
1904, Carrie herself sells these liens to Miss
Mayme Garbutt (via her trustee, S. P. Ancker,
head of Denison Bank and Trust Company). Then,
in April 1904, when Carrie sells the Gandy
Street property to C. A. and Rosie Hoffman, they
assume responsibility for paying off these
Garbutt liens. Presumably, these maneuvers allow
Carrie to recapture her insurance money, plus
$500 cash paid by the Hoffmans. [Source: Grayson
County Deed Records, Vol. 89, p. 521; Vol. 125,
p. 596; Vol. 156, pp. 387-89 and 397-401; and
Vol. 182, p. 402] March 4, 1904
Carrie B. Lebrecht purchases from P. D.
Pollard Jr. Blocks 1 through 12 in Pollard’s
Addition, Denison (also described as two tracts
on Iron Ore Creek: one of 28 acres out of the
William Oldham Survey, and another of 1 acre out
of the I. G. Belcher Survey), for $1,500,
payable in one year. This note was informally
transferred from Pollard to Miss Mayme Garbutt
in the interim. The note was paid off, and a
release (signed by both Pollard and Garbutt) was
recorded on October 10, 1905, finalizing the
sale to Carrie Lebrecht. Incidentally, this
property was the same land Louis Lebrecht and
Carrie Lebrecht sold to Phillip D. Pollard for
$300 on May 8, 1889. [Sources: Grayson County
Deed Records, Vol. 156, pp. 84-85; and Vol. 170,
p. 24; see also Vol. 81, pp. 27 and 87; and Vol.
65, p. 622] 1907
Carrie B. Lebrecht and children live at
2700 South Fannin Avenue. Perhaps this is where
Phillip D. Pollard Jr. lived in 1896-97.
[Source: City Directory] 1907
Owl Drug Store, 116 North Austin Avenue.
Proprietors are Thomas T. McKinney (colored) and
James P. Pollard (colored). McKinney, a
physician, lives at 1330 West Bond Street.
Pollard lives at 122 West Walker. [Source: City
Directory] January 5, 1908
Louis Edgar Pollard, brother of Carrie
Lebrecht, dies. [Source: Hank Lebrecht, April
22, 2006] 1917
Phillip D. Pollard [Jr.] is a
confectioner at 427 West Main Street. He and
wife Verna live on the premises. [Source: City
Directory] 1917
Horace Pollard is a fireman for the MKT
Railway; he rooms at 301 East Chestnut Street.
[Source: City Directory] 1917
William J. Pollard is a telegraph
operator for St. LSF&T Railroad. He rooms at
105-1/2 West Main Street. [Source: City
Directory] 1917
James P. Pollard (colored) is a porter.
He and wife Clara live at 122 West Walker
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1917
Thomas Pollard (colored) is a porter. He
and wife Millie P. live at 118 East Johnson
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1927-1928
All Pollards listed in the City Directory
are “colored.” 1929
All Pollards listed in the City Directory
are “colored.” 1934
At 100 West Main Street is the Da-Nite
Cafe. Louis H. Lebrecht is proprietor. Phillip
B. [sic] Pollard is cashier. He and wife
Vena live above the cafe at 100-1/2 West Main
Street. [Source: City Directory] 1936
William H. Pollard dies on June 13, at
age 41 years, 11 months, and 14 days. [Source:
City of Denison death records, Book 6, Page 175] 1940
All Pollards listed in the City Directory
are “colored.” September 6, 1955
Carrie Belle Pollard Lebrecht dies in Los
Angeles, California, at age 87. She had never
remarried. [Sources: “Mrs. L. Lebrecht, Widow”;
Affidavit given by Louis Lebrecht, Grayson
County Deed Records, Vol. 842, pp. 339-42] August 18, 1956
Walter P. Lebrecht signs a sworn
affidavit concerning the title to Lots 1 and 2,
Block 53, Original Town Plat [100 and 102 West
Main Street], Denison. Rosalee Herzinger and
Adele R. Kohl, elderly members of Denison’s
German-American community, provide supporting
affidavits. [Source: Grayson County Deed
Records, Vol. 842, pp. 339-44] Note: Walter
Lebrecht, at the time serving as a City
Commissioner in Denison, appears to have lied
under oath in this statement. He swore that his
father had never been married to anyone other
than his mother, Carrie B. Pollard Lebrecht.
Surely Walter was aware that Louis Lebrecht had
been married to Carrie’s sister, Fannie W.
Pollard, before marrying Carrie. The two elderly
women also may have lied.
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