In the Flurry of Activity, I learn

Please check notes attached to the posts related to your family lines, I believe I will place updates as I learn of them there.

As I am researching contacts for the upcoming bicentennial of Joseph Pollard I have learned of  changes in the various lines that occur over time: birth, marriage, death. Fortunate I am to learn our history though through these events.

Over a year ago I visited Mitzi Vinson in the assisted living center in Ogden. Frail, she was having increasing difficulty in accomplishing daily tasks. from my professional experience I realized that a change was likely to happen wherein she would need to have skilled nursing care and that place would not have her stay where she was. I do not know when the change did happen; after calling and getting the "this number is no longer in service" I stopped by and was informed she was no longer a resident, but they were unable to tell me where she had been placed, as this was now the reality: it would be a placement rather than a move. During this renewed research I see that a death date is listed as having come in January of 2018.
I know that Mitzi, daughter of Grace Lucile Backman Glade, and granddaughter of Grace Bailey Pollard Backman, had two daughters and four grand children, none of them in Utah. So I face east and wish them well and remember Mitzi fondly.


                                            Joseph Pollard 1819 - 2019

Memorial Day, May 27, 2019 has been selected for the program. James H. Backman has begun reaching out to the Daughters' lines in hope of having each represented. Watch for communication from him or from myself. When it is available I will post the print program.
I am delighted with the responses so far. My initial effort was to contact those who have submitted sources, changes, information and documentation to the www.FamilySearch.org profiles. I have re-learned that sometimes this is done by strangers doing a good turn, so there have been polite refusals as well as enthusiastic acceptances.

Joseph Pollard Bicentennial

This from James:
We have Joseph Pollard as a common ancestor. His 200th birthday is in 2019. We suggest a gathering at his grave site on Memorial Day, May 27, 2019 at noon. His grave is on the South end of the Salt Lake cemetery, close (Northeast) to the Church located on 4th Avenue and P Street. You will see our group there.We are contacting descendants we can locate from Joseph's seven daughters. Please spread the word with other descendants stemming from your particular Daughter.

We have begun making contacts, watch for either my or James H Backman's name in messages. We are excited to get to know you.