George Terrah Polliard

1915 - 2000  (84 years)

• Name	George Terrah Polliard
  Born	05 Aug 1915	Porter Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Died	03 Jan 2000	Greenville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
  Notes	One of George's chores as a young boy was to fill the coal bucket in the cellar of "the summer house" and carry it up the outside steps and into the kitchen. He remembers carrying this bucket on very cold, icy days when he was barely strong enough to lift the bucket. However, there was one reward for this task, he often napped behind the coal stove where it was warm and out of the way. Another of George's chores as a young boy was to bring the cows in from the pasture. Of course they wouldn't always cooperate, especially when the horses got mixed in with the cows and of course there was often more interesting things going on at home that he was afraid he was missing. He remembers one time coming home without the cows to ask his mother for help. She had company, but went with him to get the cows, but let him know the whole way there and back home that she was not happy about the situation. Frank and Lulu's house was apparently a very popular place to visit. George talked about loading the buggy with food and a change of clothes so they could visit friends and family right after church because if they went home after church company would often appear and they would not be able to continue with their plans. Lulu was a very good cook and housekeeper. She always washed clothes on Monday, ironed on Tuesday, scrubbed the kitchen chairs and floor on Wednesday, cleaned the upstairs on Thursdays, cleaned the downstairs on Fridays and baked 8 pies and 8 loaves of bread on Saturday. When she was first married she had to bake in "the out oven" which was a wood fired oven built outside. Lulu always had a crock of buckwheat pancake batter starter sitting on the cellar steps. One day George and his sister Jane decided to have a pancake eating contest. Lulu kept making pancakes and Jane and George kept eating away. George got full before Jane did but wasn't about to let his sister win so he started hiding his pancakes on a ledge under the table. Family and friends often joined the Polliards on a Sunday afternoon to help them break wild horses. George's biggest adventure as a young man was his trip to the "Century of Progress Exposition" in Chicago in 1933. He traveled to the fair with Chubb Chandler, Blair Henry and his cousin Don Phillips in a $12 car owned by his cousin Don Phillips. Each boy paid Don $5 for the ride. George had earned his $5 by raising and selling a pig. The car had a trundle seat so there was not much interior room. Don did all the driving so they remaining three took turns riding in the one remaining interior seat or the two seats in the exterior trundle seat. They slept along the way on blankets beside the car. After the Exposition they decided they wanted to return home by a different route so they could see Canada and Niagara Falls. Don agreed take to his car the longer route only after obtaining an extra $.50 from the other three passengers. George was a member of the Eureka Lodge 290 in Greenville; Scottish Rite Valley of New Castle; and Zem Zem Temple, Erie. Record of Deeds for the "store" property Orrie O Wagner to Fred R. Corbett, Vengold Ice Cream, recorded Dec. 16, 1930 Vengold Dairy Products Inc. to Clyde E. Winters, recorded April 26, 1934 Clyd E. Winters to George T. Polliard & Florence R. Polliard, recorded April 27, 1944
  Person ID	I3924	McKinney and Stewart of Clarion County, Pennsylvania
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2008

  
  

  Family	Florence Ruth King,   b. 17 May 1911, Limestone Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania
  Married	29 Dec 1936	Summerville, Clarion County, Pennsylvania
  Notes	George and Ruth married on December 28, 1936. After their honeymoon trip to Gettysburg and Washington D. C. they moved in with George's parents on the farm. Ruth taught 3rd grade at Porter Township Consolidated until the end of the school year. George got a job with Penn Power out of Clarion so they moved to a rental house near Limestone they called "the Eaker House". Mary Jane was born at home on 2/21/38. They moved to "the Deitz house" in 1939 to get even closer to Clarion for George's job. George bought some chickens so Ruth would "get out of the house." When World War II started copper was in demand for the war so there was not enough available to make electric lines. George heard from a friend that General Electric in Erie was hiring so he went there to work while he rented a room from a family. He was really lonely and when it was time for the corn harvest he quit his job and came home to help on the family farm. In 1942 George went to Greenville with his electric lineman tools to get a job building the new "Army Camp" at Reynolds. He stayed at a local farm until his brother-in-law, Bob Blair came to get a job as a carpenter and then his other brother-in-law, Jay Myers came to get a job as a carpenter. All three then roomed with the Morrison family on Rt. 18. When the "Army Camp" was finished Bob Blair joined the service and George went to work at Butler at the Power Station for 4-6 weeks. While in Butler George stayed with his cousin Geraldine. A Major Ponder from Reynolds Army Camp called George to come back to the Camp to work maintenance. In May 1943 George rented the upstairs of a house from Elma Reichard near Fredonia and then moved Mary Jane and Ruth to be with him. In April 1944 they purchased their store from the Winters family. It had previously been a small ice cream plant and ice cream parlor. During this time George was still working at the Reynolds Army Camp on the 4 - 11p.m. shift so Ruth and Mary Jane ran the store while he was at work. George was drafted in May or June of 1945 at age 29 (the cut off age was 30). He was sent to Camp Hill, Pa. and then sent to Camp Clayborn, Louisiana for basics. While he was at Camp Clayborn he had a tooth pulled, his jaw came out of joint as had happened in the past. This time his muscles were stretched enough even a large yawn would unhinge his jaw so he was given a medical discharge and sent home in August of 1945. He was hired back on the maintenance crew at Camp Reynold until Camp Reynolds was dismantled in 1945. From the close out sale at Camp Reynolds he purchased the Oak butcher block and a large table for the meat room at the store, wool blankets, large electric grill and metal bed frames. Over the years improvements were made to the store: They dug a basement for a furnace in 1945, put rental meat lockers in the old ice cream hardening room in 1946, black topped the area around the store in 1949 and finished the upstairs in 1950. For a short while after the war Harry Zuschlagh installed his barber chair at one end of the store.
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2008
  Family ID	F1228	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Polliard Service Station 1926 and 1966 Chryslers