Lorenzo Dow "L. D." Pollock, about 35 years old, died August 25, 1840, at Fayetteville, Arkansas.
He was born in 1805 in Knox County, Tennessee, one of eleven children of Sarah Elizabeth (Cowan) and Robert D. Pollock, Jr.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah N. (Tucker) Pollock. and seven young children.
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NOTES:
Named for Lorenzo Dow (October 16, 1777 – February 2, 1834), an American evangelist, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He became an important figure and a popular writer. His autobiography at one time was the second best-selling book in the United States, exceeded only by the Bible.
L. D.'a children include William (b. 1826), John Wesley (b. 1828), Benjamin Franklin (b. 1830), James W. (b. 1834), James Riley (b. 1836), David Crockett (b. 1838) and Francis Marion (b. 1840).
L. D.'a death, Account #1:
History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, Higginson Book Company, 1889 - 1382 pages, pp 188 & 189
http://books.google.com/books?id=5uwxAQAAMAAJ&dq=history+of+washington+county+arkansas+Pollock&source=gbs_navlinks_s
"This case..." [that is, the May 1839 manslaughter trial against Willis S. Wallace for stabbing the Cherokee man Nelson Orr who had been intent on killing his brother Riley Wallace, in which he was found 'not guilty,'] "...had scarcely been disposed of when Willis Wallace killed another man. One Sunday morning L.D. Pollock, Thomas Wagnon and one Curry, his brother-in-law J. Wagnon, all fairly respectable citizens of the county, came to Fayetteville and became engaged in a game of cards. This was reported to some of the citizens, and Willis Wallace, his brother, Riley, and two or three others, resolved to put a stop to the game. They went to where the men were playing, and threatened them with arrest. This very nautrally enraged them and a quarrel ensued. Wallace and his party were getting the better of the card players and Wagnon started to run away. He ran across the public square and passed out on the other side of town. All the party followed, and Willis Wallace attempted to take Curry's horse from the rack on the square to pursue Wagnon. At this Curry pulled a pistol from his saddle-bags, but Wallace was too quick for him, and without waiting for further demonstrations, drew his own revolver and shot Curry dead.
As he fired, Pollock, who was close by, threw a stone, striking [Willis] Wallace upon the head and knocking him down, whereupon Riley Wallace, in a similar manner, struck down Pollock. He remained unconcious for several seconds. Meantime Willis Wallace regained his feet, and going up to Pollock plunged a Bowie knife through his body, pinning him to the ground. It was at first thought that he was killed, but Dr. P. J. Pollard, who had witnessed the fight from his window, had him at once removed to the hotel, dressed his wounds, and by his skill, in a few weeks restored him to health.
Two or three years later [in fact it was the next summer] Pollock and Riley Wallace met at a saloon in Fayetteville. both instantly recognized that it was "kill or be killed." Wallace drew first, but his pistol misfired. Pollock was either too nervous or too drunk to take advantage of this accident and before he could fire Wallace drew a Bowie knife and plunged it into his heart, killing him instantly. [Riley Wallace] then fled the country and was never captured.
Willis Wallace gave himself up to the authorities, but was released upon bail. After the Cane Hill murders occurred*, the public mind became agitated about [Willis] Wallace's being at large. This feeling was encouraged by A. W. Arrington**, until finally a mob gathered in Fayetteville and placed itself under his leadership for the arrest of Wallace. The had in his possession a cannon or two, and some small arms and ammunition which had been placed under his care by the State and with a party of his friends he fortified himself in his storehouse on the west side of the public square where the arms were stored. Arrington and his party occupied the courthouse. The excitement became intense and bloodshed seemed inevitable. Families within range of the guns took refuge in cellars, and all waited in breathless anxiety for the battle to begin. It did not take place, however. The party in the courthouse did not venture an aattack and finally dispersed. At the next term of the circuit court Wallace was tried up on an indictment for manslaughter, and was acquitted. He soon after moved to Texas.***
* On 15 June 1839 William Carter Wright of Cane Hill, Washington County, and four of his nine children had been brutally murdered in their home. Since this occurred before the date of Lorenzo Dow Pollock's murder, perhaps the wording should have been, "Since the Cane Hill murders last year, the public was not happy about a violent man being at large...." In the account below, it is clear that Willis was not just an innocent bystander but that he had urged his brother to kill L.D. Pollock, had encouraged him to finish him off after Riley had already buried his knife to the hilt in Pollock's back and Willis had to be held back by 'citizens' to keep him from participating in the murder.
**From encyclopediaofarkansas.net it is interesting to learn that the Fayetteville lawyer, Alfred W. Arrington, wrote a book dealing with the aftermath of the Cane Hill murders in his 1847 book, "The Desperadoes of the South-West containing an account of the Cane Hill murderers, together with the lives of several of the most notorious regulators and moderators of that region."
*** In 1850 Willis S. Wallace (b. abt 1808 in Georgia) appears on the census as a farmer in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas with wife Mary E, and children Maryann (15), and William A, (13). Both children were born in Arkansas.
~cjv 2012
Account 2:
Letter to James E. Pollock, Solana Beach, CA, dated May 22, 1981 from Ruth E. Roberts, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Washington County Clerk (Retired) containing text of letter from Sophia Sawyer to Rev. David Greene, dated August 28, 1840, describing the death of Lorenzo Dow Pollock on the previous Tuesday (August 25, 1840); text of this letter is also found in "Flashback", published by Washington County Historical Society, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Vol. 26, No. 3 (Aug 1976), pp. 18-19.
Text of letter from Sophia Sawyer to Rev. David Greene, dated August 28, 1840:
"Last Tuesday a man (Lorenzo Dow Pollock) was murdered on the square in a grocery by the same Riley Wallace who (had) stunned him last summer and whom Willis Wallace (had) stabbed while (Lorenzo Dow Pollock was) apparently dead. After recovery, this man (Lorenzo Dow Pollock) made friends with Willis Wallace, but now referred to the abuse (last summer) and in the irritable language of a drunken man replied by Riley Wallace. When he (Riley Wallace) fired (his pistol) and missed, then struck him (Pollock) with the pistol and, on the man's (Pollock's) retreat stabbed (him) on the back, the knife passing the right side into the bone so firm that Wallace braced himself by his foot and twisted with his whole force before releasing the knife (from Pollock's back ), such had been the power of the fatal thrust. As he cooly walked off, his brother (Willis Wallace), whom some persons held from joining in the murder, called to him to finish, when he raised the knife showing the depth of the blade covered with blood saying, 'He has enough, I have done it.' No citizens approached the murderer and he soon disappeared, but his brother (Willis Wallace) who urged the deed, walks about bidding defiance, saying, 'If [they] wish to take me, let them try.' Esq. Pollock who was killed, has left a wife and seven children in indigence. His wife not in a situation to come even to see him, so he was carried by us the next day following by a few citizens to the grave." [Sarah's youngest child, a son, Francis Marion, was only 4 months old when her husband was killed. The other children were 2, 4, 10, 12, and 14. I only have records of 6 children. cjv 2012.]
[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/n/Jeremiah-Manning/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0356.html , 2012]
Sarah married Andrew Agnew on Sep 30, 1847, in Washington County, Arkansas.
He was born in 1805 in Knox County, Tennessee, one of eleven children of Sarah Elizabeth (Cowan) and Robert D. Pollock, Jr.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah N. (Tucker) Pollock. and seven young children.
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NOTES:
Named for Lorenzo Dow (October 16, 1777 – February 2, 1834), an American evangelist, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He became an important figure and a popular writer. His autobiography at one time was the second best-selling book in the United States, exceeded only by the Bible.
L. D.'a children include William (b. 1826), John Wesley (b. 1828), Benjamin Franklin (b. 1830), James W. (b. 1834), James Riley (b. 1836), David Crockett (b. 1838) and Francis Marion (b. 1840).
L. D.'a death, Account #1:
History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, Higginson Book Company, 1889 - 1382 pages, pp 188 & 189
http://books.google.com/books?id=5uwxAQAAMAAJ&dq=history+of+washington+county+arkansas+Pollock&source=gbs_navlinks_s
"This case..." [that is, the May 1839 manslaughter trial against Willis S. Wallace for stabbing the Cherokee man Nelson Orr who had been intent on killing his brother Riley Wallace, in which he was found 'not guilty,'] "...had scarcely been disposed of when Willis Wallace killed another man. One Sunday morning L.D. Pollock, Thomas Wagnon and one Curry, his brother-in-law J. Wagnon, all fairly respectable citizens of the county, came to Fayetteville and became engaged in a game of cards. This was reported to some of the citizens, and Willis Wallace, his brother, Riley, and two or three others, resolved to put a stop to the game. They went to where the men were playing, and threatened them with arrest. This very nautrally enraged them and a quarrel ensued. Wallace and his party were getting the better of the card players and Wagnon started to run away. He ran across the public square and passed out on the other side of town. All the party followed, and Willis Wallace attempted to take Curry's horse from the rack on the square to pursue Wagnon. At this Curry pulled a pistol from his saddle-bags, but Wallace was too quick for him, and without waiting for further demonstrations, drew his own revolver and shot Curry dead.
As he fired, Pollock, who was close by, threw a stone, striking [Willis] Wallace upon the head and knocking him down, whereupon Riley Wallace, in a similar manner, struck down Pollock. He remained unconcious for several seconds. Meantime Willis Wallace regained his feet, and going up to Pollock plunged a Bowie knife through his body, pinning him to the ground. It was at first thought that he was killed, but Dr. P. J. Pollard, who had witnessed the fight from his window, had him at once removed to the hotel, dressed his wounds, and by his skill, in a few weeks restored him to health.
Two or three years later [in fact it was the next summer] Pollock and Riley Wallace met at a saloon in Fayetteville. both instantly recognized that it was "kill or be killed." Wallace drew first, but his pistol misfired. Pollock was either too nervous or too drunk to take advantage of this accident and before he could fire Wallace drew a Bowie knife and plunged it into his heart, killing him instantly. [Riley Wallace] then fled the country and was never captured.
Willis Wallace gave himself up to the authorities, but was released upon bail. After the Cane Hill murders occurred*, the public mind became agitated about [Willis] Wallace's being at large. This feeling was encouraged by A. W. Arrington**, until finally a mob gathered in Fayetteville and placed itself under his leadership for the arrest of Wallace. The had in his possession a cannon or two, and some small arms and ammunition which had been placed under his care by the State and with a party of his friends he fortified himself in his storehouse on the west side of the public square where the arms were stored. Arrington and his party occupied the courthouse. The excitement became intense and bloodshed seemed inevitable. Families within range of the guns took refuge in cellars, and all waited in breathless anxiety for the battle to begin. It did not take place, however. The party in the courthouse did not venture an aattack and finally dispersed. At the next term of the circuit court Wallace was tried up on an indictment for manslaughter, and was acquitted. He soon after moved to Texas.***
* On 15 June 1839 William Carter Wright of Cane Hill, Washington County, and four of his nine children had been brutally murdered in their home. Since this occurred before the date of Lorenzo Dow Pollock's murder, perhaps the wording should have been, "Since the Cane Hill murders last year, the public was not happy about a violent man being at large...." In the account below, it is clear that Willis was not just an innocent bystander but that he had urged his brother to kill L.D. Pollock, had encouraged him to finish him off after Riley had already buried his knife to the hilt in Pollock's back and Willis had to be held back by 'citizens' to keep him from participating in the murder.
**From encyclopediaofarkansas.net it is interesting to learn that the Fayetteville lawyer, Alfred W. Arrington, wrote a book dealing with the aftermath of the Cane Hill murders in his 1847 book, "The Desperadoes of the South-West containing an account of the Cane Hill murderers, together with the lives of several of the most notorious regulators and moderators of that region."
*** In 1850 Willis S. Wallace (b. abt 1808 in Georgia) appears on the census as a farmer in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas with wife Mary E, and children Maryann (15), and William A, (13). Both children were born in Arkansas.
~cjv 2012
Account 2:
Letter to James E. Pollock, Solana Beach, CA, dated May 22, 1981 from Ruth E. Roberts, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Washington County Clerk (Retired) containing text of letter from Sophia Sawyer to Rev. David Greene, dated August 28, 1840, describing the death of Lorenzo Dow Pollock on the previous Tuesday (August 25, 1840); text of this letter is also found in "Flashback", published by Washington County Historical Society, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Vol. 26, No. 3 (Aug 1976), pp. 18-19.
Text of letter from Sophia Sawyer to Rev. David Greene, dated August 28, 1840:
"Last Tuesday a man (Lorenzo Dow Pollock) was murdered on the square in a grocery by the same Riley Wallace who (had) stunned him last summer and whom Willis Wallace (had) stabbed while (Lorenzo Dow Pollock was) apparently dead. After recovery, this man (Lorenzo Dow Pollock) made friends with Willis Wallace, but now referred to the abuse (last summer) and in the irritable language of a drunken man replied by Riley Wallace. When he (Riley Wallace) fired (his pistol) and missed, then struck him (Pollock) with the pistol and, on the man's (Pollock's) retreat stabbed (him) on the back, the knife passing the right side into the bone so firm that Wallace braced himself by his foot and twisted with his whole force before releasing the knife (from Pollock's back ), such had been the power of the fatal thrust. As he cooly walked off, his brother (Willis Wallace), whom some persons held from joining in the murder, called to him to finish, when he raised the knife showing the depth of the blade covered with blood saying, 'He has enough, I have done it.' No citizens approached the murderer and he soon disappeared, but his brother (Willis Wallace) who urged the deed, walks about bidding defiance, saying, 'If [they] wish to take me, let them try.' Esq. Pollock who was killed, has left a wife and seven children in indigence. His wife not in a situation to come even to see him, so he was carried by us the next day following by a few citizens to the grave." [Sarah's youngest child, a son, Francis Marion, was only 4 months old when her husband was killed. The other children were 2, 4, 10, 12, and 14. I only have records of 6 children. cjv 2012.]
[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/n/Jeremiah-Manning/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0356.html , 2012]
Sarah married Andrew Agnew on Sep 30, 1847, in Washington County, Arkansas.
Lorenzo Dow "L. D." Pollock, about 35 years old, died August 25, 1840, at Fayetteville, Arkansas.
He was born in 1805 in Knox County, Tennessee, one of eleven children of Sarah Elizabeth (Cowan) and Robert D. Pollock, Jr.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah N. (Tucker) Pollock. and seven young children.
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NOTES:
Named for Lorenzo Dow (October 16, 1777 – February 2, 1834), an American evangelist, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He became an important figure and a popular writer. His autobiography at one time was the second best-selling book in the United States, exceeded only by the Bible.
L. D.'a children include William (b. 1826), John Wesley (b. 1828), Benjamin Franklin (b. 1830), James W. (b. 1834), James Riley (b. 1836), David Crockett (b. 1838) and Francis Marion (b. 1840).
L. D.'a death, Account #1:
History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, Higginson Book Company, 1889 - 1382 pages, pp 188 & 189
http://books.google.com/books?id=5uwxAQAAMAAJ&dq=history+of+washington+county+arkansas+Pollock&source=gbs_navlinks_s
"This case..." [that is, the May 1839 manslaughter trial against Willis S. Wallace for stabbing the Cherokee man Nelson Orr who had been intent on killing his brother Riley Wallace, in which he was found 'not guilty,'] "...had scarcely been disposed of when Willis Wallace killed another man. One Sunday morning L.D. Pollock, Thomas Wagnon and one Curry, his brother-in-law J. Wagnon, all fairly respectable citizens of the county, came to Fayetteville and became engaged in a game of cards. This was reported to some of the citizens, and Willis Wallace, his brother, Riley, and two or three others, resolved to put a stop to the game. They went to where the men were playing, and threatened them with arrest. This very nautrally enraged them and a quarrel ensued. Wallace and his party were getting the better of the card players and Wagnon started to run away. He ran across the public square and passed out on the other side of town. All the party followed, and Willis Wallace attempted to take Curry's horse from the rack on the square to pursue Wagnon. At this Curry pulled a pistol from his saddle-bags, but Wallace was too quick for him, and without waiting for further demonstrations, drew his own revolver and shot Curry dead.
As he fired, Pollock, who was close by, threw a stone, striking [Willis] Wallace upon the head and knocking him down, whereupon Riley Wallace, in a similar manner, struck down Pollock. He remained unconcious for several seconds. Meantime Willis Wallace regained his feet, and going up to Pollock plunged a Bowie knife through his body, pinning him to the ground. It was at first thought that he was killed, but Dr. P. J. Pollard, who had witnessed the fight from his window, had him at once removed to the hotel, dressed his wounds, and by his skill, in a few weeks restored him to health.
Two or three years later [in fact it was the next summer] Pollock and Riley Wallace met at a saloon in Fayetteville. both instantly recognized that it was "kill or be killed." Wallace drew first, but his pistol misfired. Pollock was either too nervous or too drunk to take advantage of this accident and before he could fire Wallace drew a Bowie knife and plunged it into his heart, killing him instantly. [Riley Wallace] then fled the country and was never captured.
Willis Wallace gave himself up to the authorities, but was released upon bail. After the Cane Hill murders occurred*, the public mind became agitated about [Willis] Wallace's being at large. This feeling was encouraged by A. W. Arrington**, until finally a mob gathered in Fayetteville and placed itself under his leadership for the arrest of Wallace. The had in his possession a cannon or two, and some small arms and ammunition which had been placed under his care by the State and with a party of his friends he fortified himself in his storehouse on the west side of the public square where the arms were stored. Arrington and his party occupied the courthouse. The excitement became intense and bloodshed seemed inevitable. Families within range of the guns took refuge in cellars, and all waited in breathless anxiety for the battle to begin. It did not take place, however. The party in the courthouse did not venture an aattack and finally dispersed. At the next term of the circuit court Wallace was tried up on an indictment for manslaughter, and was acquitted. He soon after moved to Texas.***
* On 15 June 1839 William Carter Wright of Cane Hill, Washington County, and four of his nine children had been brutally murdered in their home. Since this occurred before the date of Lorenzo Dow Pollock's murder, perhaps the wording should have been, "Since the Cane Hill murders last year, the public was not happy about a violent man being at large...." In the account below, it is clear that Willis was not just an innocent bystander but that he had urged his brother to kill L.D. Pollock, had encouraged him to finish him off after Riley had already buried his knife to the hilt in Pollock's back and Willis had to be held back by 'citizens' to keep him from participating in the murder.
**From encyclopediaofarkansas.net it is interesting to learn that the Fayetteville lawyer, Alfred W. Arrington, wrote a book dealing with the aftermath of the Cane Hill murders in his 1847 book, "The Desperadoes of the South-West containing an account of the Cane Hill murderers, together with the lives of several of the most notorious regulators and moderators of that region."
*** In 1850 Willis S. Wallace (b. abt 1808 in Georgia) appears on the census as a farmer in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas with wife Mary E, and children Maryann (15), and William A, (13). Both children were born in Arkansas.
~cjv 2012
Account 2:
Letter to James E. Pollock, Solana Beach, CA, dated May 22, 1981 from Ruth E. Roberts, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Washington County Clerk (Retired) containing text of letter from Sophia Sawyer to Rev. David Greene, dated August 28, 1840, describing the death of Lorenzo Dow Pollock on the previous Tuesday (August 25, 1840); text of this letter is also found in "Flashback", published by Washington County Historical Society, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Vol. 26, No. 3 (Aug 1976), pp. 18-19.
Text of letter from Sophia Sawyer to Rev. David Greene, dated August 28, 1840:
"Last Tuesday a man (Lorenzo Dow Pollock) was murdered on the square in a grocery by the same Riley Wallace who (had) stunned him last summer and whom Willis Wallace (had) stabbed while (Lorenzo Dow Pollock was) apparently dead. After recovery, this man (Lorenzo Dow Pollock) made friends with Willis Wallace, but now referred to the abuse (last summer) and in the irritable language of a drunken man replied by Riley Wallace. When he (Riley Wallace) fired (his pistol) and missed, then struck him (Pollock) with the pistol and, on the man's (Pollock's) retreat stabbed (him) on the back, the knife passing the right side into the bone so firm that Wallace braced himself by his foot and twisted with his whole force before releasing the knife (from Pollock's back ), such had been the power of the fatal thrust. As he cooly walked off, his brother (Willis Wallace), whom some persons held from joining in the murder, called to him to finish, when he raised the knife showing the depth of the blade covered with blood saying, 'He has enough, I have done it.' No citizens approached the murderer and he soon disappeared, but his brother (Willis Wallace) who urged the deed, walks about bidding defiance, saying, 'If [they] wish to take me, let them try.' Esq. Pollock who was killed, has left a wife and seven children in indigence. His wife not in a situation to come even to see him, so he was carried by us the next day following by a few citizens to the grave." [Sarah's youngest child, a son, Francis Marion, was only 4 months old when her husband was killed. The other children were 2, 4, 10, 12, and 14. I only have records of 6 children. cjv 2012.]
[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/n/Jeremiah-Manning/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0356.html , 2012]
Sarah married Andrew Agnew on Sep 30, 1847, in Washington County, Arkansas.
He was born in 1805 in Knox County, Tennessee, one of eleven children of Sarah Elizabeth (Cowan) and Robert D. Pollock, Jr.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah N. (Tucker) Pollock. and seven young children.
********************************************************************************
NOTES:
Named for Lorenzo Dow (October 16, 1777 – February 2, 1834), an American evangelist, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He became an important figure and a popular writer. His autobiography at one time was the second best-selling book in the United States, exceeded only by the Bible.
L. D.'a children include William (b. 1826), John Wesley (b. 1828), Benjamin Franklin (b. 1830), James W. (b. 1834), James Riley (b. 1836), David Crockett (b. 1838) and Francis Marion (b. 1840).
L. D.'a death, Account #1:
History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, Higginson Book Company, 1889 - 1382 pages, pp 188 & 189
http://books.google.com/books?id=5uwxAQAAMAAJ&dq=history+of+washington+county+arkansas+Pollock&source=gbs_navlinks_s
"This case..." [that is, the May 1839 manslaughter trial against Willis S. Wallace for stabbing the Cherokee man Nelson Orr who had been intent on killing his brother Riley Wallace, in which he was found 'not guilty,'] "...had scarcely been disposed of when Willis Wallace killed another man. One Sunday morning L.D. Pollock, Thomas Wagnon and one Curry, his brother-in-law J. Wagnon, all fairly respectable citizens of the county, came to Fayetteville and became engaged in a game of cards. This was reported to some of the citizens, and Willis Wallace, his brother, Riley, and two or three others, resolved to put a stop to the game. They went to where the men were playing, and threatened them with arrest. This very nautrally enraged them and a quarrel ensued. Wallace and his party were getting the better of the card players and Wagnon started to run away. He ran across the public square and passed out on the other side of town. All the party followed, and Willis Wallace attempted to take Curry's horse from the rack on the square to pursue Wagnon. At this Curry pulled a pistol from his saddle-bags, but Wallace was too quick for him, and without waiting for further demonstrations, drew his own revolver and shot Curry dead.
As he fired, Pollock, who was close by, threw a stone, striking [Willis] Wallace upon the head and knocking him down, whereupon Riley Wallace, in a similar manner, struck down Pollock. He remained unconcious for several seconds. Meantime Willis Wallace regained his feet, and going up to Pollock plunged a Bowie knife through his body, pinning him to the ground. It was at first thought that he was killed, but Dr. P. J. Pollard, who had witnessed the fight from his window, had him at once removed to the hotel, dressed his wounds, and by his skill, in a few weeks restored him to health.
Two or three years later [in fact it was the next summer] Pollock and Riley Wallace met at a saloon in Fayetteville. both instantly recognized that it was "kill or be killed." Wallace drew first, but his pistol misfired. Pollock was either too nervous or too drunk to take advantage of this accident and before he could fire Wallace drew a Bowie knife and plunged it into his heart, killing him instantly. [Riley Wallace] then fled the country and was never captured.
Willis Wallace gave himself up to the authorities, but was released upon bail. After the Cane Hill murders occurred*, the public mind became agitated about [Willis] Wallace's being at large. This feeling was encouraged by A. W. Arrington**, until finally a mob gathered in Fayetteville and placed itself under his leadership for the arrest of Wallace. The had in his possession a cannon or two, and some small arms and ammunition which had been placed under his care by the State and with a party of his friends he fortified himself in his storehouse on the west side of the public square where the arms were stored. Arrington and his party occupied the courthouse. The excitement became intense and bloodshed seemed inevitable. Families within range of the guns took refuge in cellars, and all waited in breathless anxiety for the battle to begin. It did not take place, however. The party in the courthouse did not venture an aattack and finally dispersed. At the next term of the circuit court Wallace was tried up on an indictment for manslaughter, and was acquitted. He soon after moved to Texas.***
* On 15 June 1839 William Carter Wright of Cane Hill, Washington County, and four of his nine children had been brutally murdered in their home. Since this occurred before the date of Lorenzo Dow Pollock's murder, perhaps the wording should have been, "Since the Cane Hill murders last year, the public was not happy about a violent man being at large...." In the account below, it is clear that Willis was not just an innocent bystander but that he had urged his brother to kill L.D. Pollock, had encouraged him to finish him off after Riley had already buried his knife to the hilt in Pollock's back and Willis had to be held back by 'citizens' to keep him from participating in the murder.
**From encyclopediaofarkansas.net it is interesting to learn that the Fayetteville lawyer, Alfred W. Arrington, wrote a book dealing with the aftermath of the Cane Hill murders in his 1847 book, "The Desperadoes of the South-West containing an account of the Cane Hill murderers, together with the lives of several of the most notorious regulators and moderators of that region."
*** In 1850 Willis S. Wallace (b. abt 1808 in Georgia) appears on the census as a farmer in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas with wife Mary E, and children Maryann (15), and William A, (13). Both children were born in Arkansas.
~cjv 2012
Account 2:
Letter to James E. Pollock, Solana Beach, CA, dated May 22, 1981 from Ruth E. Roberts, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Washington County Clerk (Retired) containing text of letter from Sophia Sawyer to Rev. David Greene, dated August 28, 1840, describing the death of Lorenzo Dow Pollock on the previous Tuesday (August 25, 1840); text of this letter is also found in "Flashback", published by Washington County Historical Society, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Vol. 26, No. 3 (Aug 1976), pp. 18-19.
Text of letter from Sophia Sawyer to Rev. David Greene, dated August 28, 1840:
"Last Tuesday a man (Lorenzo Dow Pollock) was murdered on the square in a grocery by the same Riley Wallace who (had) stunned him last summer and whom Willis Wallace (had) stabbed while (Lorenzo Dow Pollock was) apparently dead. After recovery, this man (Lorenzo Dow Pollock) made friends with Willis Wallace, but now referred to the abuse (last summer) and in the irritable language of a drunken man replied by Riley Wallace. When he (Riley Wallace) fired (his pistol) and missed, then struck him (Pollock) with the pistol and, on the man's (Pollock's) retreat stabbed (him) on the back, the knife passing the right side into the bone so firm that Wallace braced himself by his foot and twisted with his whole force before releasing the knife (from Pollock's back ), such had been the power of the fatal thrust. As he cooly walked off, his brother (Willis Wallace), whom some persons held from joining in the murder, called to him to finish, when he raised the knife showing the depth of the blade covered with blood saying, 'He has enough, I have done it.' No citizens approached the murderer and he soon disappeared, but his brother (Willis Wallace) who urged the deed, walks about bidding defiance, saying, 'If [they] wish to take me, let them try.' Esq. Pollock who was killed, has left a wife and seven children in indigence. His wife not in a situation to come even to see him, so he was carried by us the next day following by a few citizens to the grave." [Sarah's youngest child, a son, Francis Marion, was only 4 months old when her husband was killed. The other children were 2, 4, 10, 12, and 14. I only have records of 6 children. cjv 2012.]
[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/n/Jeremiah-Manning/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0356.html , 2012]
Sarah married Andrew Agnew on Sep 30, 1847, in Washington County, Arkansas.
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