Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . several voyages to Amer-ica and the West Indies. In 1844 hejoined the Queens government ser-vice and worked at shipbuilding at thegovernment docks at Deptford, countyof Kent. Sept. 22, 1845, he marriedMary Ann Bailey. In 1848 he firstheard Mormonism and was baptizedby John Griffith April 10, 1849. Soon af-terwards he was ordained to the officeof a Deacon, advanced through the va- 636 LATTER-DAY SAINT riovjs prades of the Priesthood
Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . several voyages to Amer-ica and the West Indies. In 1844 hejoined the Queens government ser-vice and worked at shipbuilding at thegovernment docks at Deptford, countyof Kent. Sept. 22, 1845, he marriedMary Ann Bailey. In 1848 he firstheard Mormonism and was baptizedby John Griffith April 10, 1849. Soon af-terwards he was ordained to the officeof a Deacon, advanced through the va- 636 LATTER-DAY SAINT riovjs prades of the Priesthood until hewas ordained an Elder and sent out onSunday missions to scatter tracts inBedford and Aicinity. In 1852 he suc-ceeded Eider Griffith as president ofthe Deptford branch, which position heoccupied until he emigrated to Ameri-ca with his wife and three children in1854. They crossed the Atlantic in theship •Clara AVheeler, which sailedfrom Liverpool, England, Nov. 27, the voyage considerable sicknessprevailed among the emigrants and anumber of them died. Having arrivedat St. Louis, Mo., in January, 1855, hefound employment as a ship carpenter,. working on steamboats and other ves-sels, in the employ of the famous Cap-tain James Eades. While thus employ-ed he was ordained to the office of aHigh Priest by Apostle Erastus Snow,ond set apart to act as a member ofthe High Council in the St. Louis Stakeof Zion. His house was always opento the missionaries, and among thentany Valley Elders who shared inhis hospitality Avas Apostle Parley , who stayed at his home abouta month immediately before going toArkansas, where he was murdered. InJune, Elder Pollard continued hisjourney Zion-ward, joined the emigra-tion at Florence, Nebraska, and cross-ed the plains in Capt. Jacob Hoffinescompany. Several stampedes occurredon the plains; in one of these 46 headof cattle were lost. On one occasionthe cattle stampeded when hitched tothe wagons. During the affair Elder Po
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