Grandchildren: The Daughters' Families

Joseph and Mary Ann Bailey Pollard had 45 grandchildren, not all survived to adulthood; Elizabeth Boud, Hazel Boud, Wallace Pollard Boud, Spencer P Holding and Melvin Hilmer Backman all died in infancy or childhood. The Bishop's daughters had families close in age. While my grandfather was my earliest source of Pollard family history, he was one of the youngest cousins. I recall his stories about his aunts more than any stories of others of that generation. Joseph Pollard Evans, the eldest, was 37 before my grandfather was born in 1904. Let me share some of what I have learned of the others.

Emma Louise Evans was born 23 November 1869. She grew up in the area of Salt Lake developing as the railroad center of the burgeoning city. I am sure that Moses and Louisa's children played and schooled with other families involved with the building and expanding railroad industry and the building of a rising city.
Her obituary tells us that Emma was LDS, and that she was associated with the Ladies of Woodcraft Organization, I believe an auxillary of the Woodmen of the World, a social and service organization. She married George Merrill Creamer 23 Jun 1898 in Salt Lake; born in Ohio, George was a machinist for the Denver Rio Grande railroad shop for 20 years and at the time of his death in 1926 as the result of diabetes had worked for the Salt Lake City Health department. Emma's death certificate reports her death was due to a hepatic coma of unknown cause. She died after being ill for about one week at age 83, on April 8, 1953.
Having no children of her own she was involved in the rearing of her nephew Clarence Ira Blanchard, son of her younger sister Mary Alice, both of whom survived her as well as did sisters Louie May, Julia and Grace.
Emma Louise and George M Creamer are buried in the Mt Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City.

James Carlos Allred was born in Spring City on September 23, 1870. Even today seeing Spring City one can imagine the ease of learning about the physical world around us. The farm, the pasture, the hills, the mountains. For sport, leisure or industry the outdoors are near at hand in Sanpete County. James married in 1899 in Manti to Ruth Anine Justesen, also of Spring City. She was the dauther of Rasmus Justesen and Anine Marie Larsen, pioneers of the community known as Dane Town. They were the parents of five children: Clarence Jay, Merrill, Genile, James Raymond and Erma. Genile passed away in 2004, the last of this family. James Carlos passed away in Spring City on 30 July 1919. If I am reading the death certificate correctly his death was attributed to locomotor attoxie, from which he suffered for over a year. He had had a carreer with the US Forest Service, his wife survived him for over 20 years, passing away in Richfield, Utah on 16 Dec 1940. They are at rest in Spring City.

Mary Alice Evans Blanchard was born in 1871 and passed away 13 February 1957, age 85. She is listed as widowed on her death certificate, which reports her death occurred at her home on West 2nd South in Salt Lake City. She had been a homemaker and mother of on child, Clarence Ira Blanchard. Her husband was Ira Blanchard, a native of Iowa. I have that marriage as 20 Apr 1896 in Salt Lake City, which I find on the Western States Marriage Records Index (http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates)
I have found no other information for Ira but believe that like his father-in-law and brothers-in-law he was involved in the life and industry of that area where they made their home. Mary Alice was survived by sisters Grace and Julia and her son Clarence and daughter-in-law Myrtle Krogh Blanchard. She is buried at Mt Olivet.