Lenoir County, NC, Obituary for DR. JOHN ALFRED POLLOCK ========================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be repro- duced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Copyright 1999 by Carol Pridgen Martoccia. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. by Carol Pridgen Martoccia psmartoc@eastnet.ecu.edu ========================================================= Copy found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina - Vertical File Pollock 16776-3. We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. The following obituary came from the Kinston Daily Free Press, Saturday evening, November 12, 1932 POLLOCK FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON; WAS CONFEDERATE Aged Physician Last of Lee's Men in Lenoir County--Legislator, Author, Christian, Southern Gentleman The death of Dr. John Alfred Pollock at his residence in North Kinston yesterday afternoon closed the roll call in Lenoir County of the valiant men who followed Robert E. Lee through the four years of the war Between the States. While a lad of only 17 he enlisted in the Confederate army and fought through the war. He had lived in Kinston only 10 years, having come with his father to the town in 1851. The father, Dr. W.A.J. Pollock, had been for some time a practicing physician located at Stone's Bay in Onslow county. He enjoyed a wide practice, and so many calls came from the section near Kinston the elder Dr. Pollock decided to locate in Kinston as a more central point for his work. Born November 1, 1844, he grew to maturity in Kinston and in Lee's army. At the close of the war he entered the drug business in Kinston with his father. January 8, 1867, he married Miss Agnes Jones of Kinston. Into the home came two sons and three daughters. John Alfred, Jr. and Olive Branch died in infancy. Dr. Raymond Pollock of New Bern followed his father in the practice of medicine and is one of the leading physicians and surgeons in the section. One daughter, Agnes Mozelle, was married to Dr. Bernard W. Spilman and is now dead. Another daughter, Emily, was married to J. Herman Canady and with the son at New Bern survives. Decided to become a physician, Mr. Pollock went to New York in the early '70s and studied medicine at New York University. He practiced in Kinston nearly 50 years. He always took an active part in constructive civil movements. He was city treasurer and served on the board of commissioners and on the school board of the city, taking an active part in passing the bill through the General Assembly of North Carolina to secure the first graded school here, making several trips to Raleigh for the purpose. State Senator He represented this district in the state Senate in 1903 and was a member of the Democratic state convention which nominated WW Kitchin for the governorship at Charlotte in the summer of 1908. He was surgeon-general of the National Guard with the rank of brigadier general. He was for years a member of the staff of the commander-in- chief of the Confederate Veterans of America, often riding in the parades at the national gatherings. He was an enthusiastic churchman, being from early youth a member of the Baptist Church in Kinston. He taught a Sunday school class, was church treasurer and was active in many phases of church life. He was for years an enthusiastic Mason and in early life an Odd Fellow. He was always fond of the best in literature and wrote quite a good deal. One of his literary productions was a historical novel "The Fair Lady of Halifax" which won for him quite a reputation. In the summer of 1907, while attending the Confederate veterans' reunion at Washington, D.C. he married Miss Lula Aldridge, who survives him. He retired from the active practice of medicine some 10 years ago and spent the years following in his home, with an occasional visit to other places. He loved his friends and nothing pleased him quite so much as to have them visit him. He kept hmself well- informed on the current happenings of the day; he studied history with the relish of a university professor of history. His favorite topics of conversation in the order of their interest for him were religion, war and general history. But by no means did he confine himself to these; his range of interests was a s wide as the human race. He was a typical gentleman of the old school, bringing out of the past all of the traditions which are best but keeping himself alive and alert to the things of today. His passing is a distinct loss to this community.