Ancestry of
Stephen King

Author of The Stand

William Edwin Pollock

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• • Grandfather of Stephen King — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • David Rittenhouse Pollock 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Davis   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Aug 1888 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cass County, Indiana 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Oct 1918 
  • Death Location:
  • Peru, Miami, Indiana 
  • Burial Date:
  • 26 Oct 1918 
  • Burial Location:
  • Reyburn Cemetery, Peru, Miami, Indiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Helen Alethea Bowden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Apr 1913 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Peru, Miami, Indiana 
  • Children:
  
  

  Donald Edwin Pollock alias King (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  Betty L. Pollock

  • Notes: 

  • William Pollock died during the massive influenza pandemic of 1918 which killed more than 50 million people. He was a railroad engineer.

• Sources for William Edwin Pollock

  • ¹ Federal Census, IN, Miama County, 1900, Peru, E.D. 97, Sheet 19A, Image 37 of 43.
  • ² Federal Census, IN, Miami County, 1910, Deer Creek, E.D. 115, Sheet 2A, Image 3 of 25.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/05/2014.
  • ⁴ Indiana Death Index, 1882-1920, Death record for Wm. E. Pollock.
  • ⁵ Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019, Marriage record for William E. Pollock and Helen A. Bowden.
  • ⁶ Indiana, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1907-1944, Birth certificate for son Donald Edwin Pollock.
  • ⁷ Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017, Death certificate for William Edwin Pollick.
  • ⁸ The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania), 09 NOV 1980, p. 78, Obituary for son Donald E King.
  • ⁹ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Draft registration for William E. Pollock.
  • ¹⁰ Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Finding Your Roots, Season 2: The Official Companion to the PBS Series, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press (2016), 13-14.

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