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Note: t teh time of Alberts death.
Orla purchased a Case Steam Traction Engine with several attachments, such as a threshing machine, a lumber mill, and a clover huller. As we do almost 100 years later, Orla borrowed money for the first purchase, rolled the loan into bigger loans, and used the steam engine (not yet paid off) as collateral.
In the 1920 census Orla gives his occupation as "THRESHER." not just a farmer!
In 1922 when the steam engine drive belt broke and struck Orla, causing his death, his widow Edith was left with 2 kids and lots of debt. She took the two kids to Lansing and ran a boarding house for men.
After the death of her son Orla Elizabeth sold the farm to her son Ernest POLLOK. A picture of Ernest and Elizabeth which I have of them standing in front of the house, taken about 1927 just before her death, would tend to support the oral history that she lived there from 1922 to 1927.
Killed by the saw mill in the old farm.
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10/1/1908 Albert D. Pollok, R. D. Route No. 5, Mason, Mich. wrote a letter containg (2 cents postage)
TO: Orla B. Pollok, Grand Rapids Michigan, General Delivery.
Albert asks Orla to come and husk his corn so he won't have to hire it done. "And if you come you ma will stay here. I wish you could come right away before i go and then i will know what arrangements to make."
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As told by Nancy Pollok
OWNSHIP OF FARM: As his father Albert urged in the letter of October, 1908, Orla did return to the farm from Grand Rapids, probably immediately upon receipt of the letter. Albert S POLLOK the grandson said that he was born in Grand Rapids but only lived there a few months. July 12 to October or November of 1908 would be 3 or 4 months.
After the death of Albert D POLLOK in 1909, the ownership of the family farm and house passed to his widow, Elizabeth. She lived there with her son Orla and his family ... that is, the young Orla and his family lived with her. The census entries for 1910 and 1920 are clear that Elizabeth owned the farm.
Orla purchased a Case Steam Traction Engine with several attachments, such as a threshing machine, a lumber mill, and a clover huller. As we do almost 100 years later, Orla borrowed money for the first purchase, rolled the loan into bigger loans, and used the steam engine (not yet paid off) as collateral.
In the 1920 census Orla gives his occupation as "THRESHER." not just a farmer!
In 1922 when the steam engine drive belt broke and struck Orla, causing his death, his widow Edith was left with 2 kids and lots of debt. She took the two kids to Lansing and ran a boarding house for men.
After the death of her son Orla Elizabeth sold the farm to her son Ernest POLLOK. A picture of Ernest and Elizabeth which I have of them standing in front of the house, taken about 1927 just before her death, would tend to support the oral history that she lived there from 1922 to 1927.
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Name: Orla Pollok
Age in 1910: 34
Estimated birth year: abt 1876
Birthplace: Michigan
Home in 1910: Wheatfield Twp, Ingham, Michigan
Race: White
Gender: Male
Series: T624
Roll: 651
Part: 2
Page: 249B
Year: 1910
I found this census the most interesting besdies Orla, Edith and Viva and Albert Steven there is Orla's Mother living with them. Not them livng with her. also Romine is on that census and Jason D.
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he City of Grand Rapids, MI Archivist, Bill Cunningham, found Orla B. Pollak first listed on the Police Department roster in the 1907 Board of Police & Fire Commissioners Annual Report. His appointment date is listed as September 29, 1906. His name appears in the 1908 Annual Report also, but then disappears from the roster. Mr. Cunningham did not find Orla's name listed with those who resigned from service. He also didn't find any other information about Orla, except that he was absent for 36 days in 1907 either because of sickness, leave of absence, or suspension.
This is from an email I received and Mr. Cunningham sent the pages of the roster of 1907 with Orla B. Pollak in it. It is supposed to Pollok it never got changed I guess on their records. . Proof at last that Orla B. worked for the Grand Rapids MI police Dept.
Notes for ORLA B. POLLOK:
The Town Crier, Stockbridge, MI, Feb. 8, 2005, pg. 15, Remember When, "Stockbridge Brief",, Feb. 9, 1905: Orla Pollock and family are moving into H. A. Yocum's house.
Perhaps this is the land Orla B is paying taxes on in 1905 Nancy mentions here in. before his father died and his Mother owned land.
Then in 1906 he is living in Grand Rapids and is a police officer 1906, 1907, 1908 and then is no more on the rolls of the police dept.
The 1910 census shows Orla and Edith and Albert Steven, and Viva and Elizabeth living with them.
This adds to the time line of what we did nt know of the whereabouts of Orla B. He was married to Edith Atwood. He lived in Grand Rapids when Viva and Albert Stephen were born. He is still on the police annual report 1906 and 1907 being absent 36 days, and is on the roster in 1908. then it disappears and not shown if resigned or how he left the force. This 1910 census shows he is living back in Wheatfiled twp. His Father Albert D had died Feb. 12, 1909 shortly after Albert Stephen was born to Orla and Edith. He is buried with a grave site oneunused between he and his father Albert D.
per Ingham Co. posting response 10/11/2004, from Nancy Pollok: Oral history says my Pollok ancestors donated the land for the Pollok school. A current road map shows "Pollok Corner." My father, Albert S. Pollok and his sister Viva M. Pollok attended that one room school. I have his lessons and his slate board. . . Original receipts for payment of taxes in 1900's and 1910's show that my granddad Orla B. Pollok paid taxes on a farm located on, or near, the NE corner of Berkley & Waldo. At this time it was owned by his mother Elizabeth L. Decker Pollok, widow of Albert D. Pollok. I do not yet know how/when Albert D. Pollok obtained the land. Several of his siblings and aunts and uncles also lived nearby and were members/officers of the same fraternal order. Myron was a Minister preached at the "Pollok Church." Was the church really the school during the week? Albert D. was a Justice of the Peace. Orla B. had a Case tractor steam engine and did the threshing for farmers in that area - I have threshing logs Orla B. Did for neighbors.
Note: according to obituary article of Albert D. , Orla Pollok has been living with his parents, a
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