Re: Jessie M Pollock b. 1815 in Ga
-
In reply to:
Jessie M Pollock b. 1815 in Ga
Robert Pollock 5/11/07
I'll tell you this much... you have a lot of cousins in your line who are deep into genealogy, so maybe we will have a documented answer as to who your Jesse M. Pollock's father was one of these days.
Mike Blewett has put together a database of our Pollock family and some of the relationships presented are a bit "loose" you might say.
He refers to your Jesse M., husband of Acenith Thompson, as the youngest son and Junior to old Jesse from NC (1763-1832). I suppose this is possible, as there is no other Jesse that fits the bill and it is more likely than not that a son DID inherit the name.
Still, I always tend to think your Jesse M. was a grandson of old Jesse, perhaps through his son Edmond G., who seems to have died before 1830 and is not as well represented in census records etc. as a result. The earliest GA census records I have seen for old Jesse do not list a male that could have been Jesse M. at a time we might assume he should have been in the home.
You can be confident enough to say that he WAS in the direct line of old Jesse... though I have recently acquired notes on the Burke and Screven County, GA Pollocks who were undoubtedly of some kin, and it seems that at least one lady from that family and also some Thompsons from the area moved to Houston County... but apparently none from that bunch were named Jesse.
Your family line offers some other possibilities as to what that middle initial M. stands for... I always wanted to stick Morris to it, but Madison, Matthew, or Martin (another son of old Jesse) could fit, though they don't seem to occur as widely across the later generations as Morris, which also appears among the NC Pollocks in earlier generations.
I hope some of your cousins will come forward with better answers, but I just wanted to let you know that your bunch are definitely a familiar branch of the family.