Sarah Penelope POLLARD, 18431936 (aged 92 years)

Name
Sarah Penelope /POLLARD/
Given names
Sarah Penelope
Surname
POLLARD
Birth
August 22, 1843
Butler County, Alabama, USA
Latitude: 32.089355 Longitude: -88.22128
Birth of a brother
March 16, 1845
Alabama, USA
Latitude: 32.748199 Longitude: -86.847908
Citation details: p. 101, Emmaus Cemetery, Luverne County, Alabama list
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: September 19, 2005
Citation details: Crenshaw County AL Cemeteries, Emmaus Cemetery, contributed by Ron Bridges, Feb. 2007
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: November 6, 2007
Birth of a sister
about 1846
Alabama, USA
Latitude: 32.748199 Longitude: -86.847908
Birth of a brother
Birth of a sister
about 1851
Alabama, USA
Latitude: 32.748199 Longitude: -86.847908
Citation details: Census 1860, Sal Soda, Butler, Prec. 5, Series: M653 Roll:3 Page 132
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: January 6, 2005
Birth of a brother
Birth of a brother
Marriage
Death
July 8, 1936 (aged 92 years)
Mount Pleasant, Titus, Texas, USA
Latitude: 31.645278 Longitude: -89.555278
Burial
Collins City Cem., Collins, Covington, Mississippi, USA
Latitude: 31.645278 Longitude: -89.555278
Family with parents
father
18101854
Birth: July 8, 1810South Carolina, USA
Death: July 25, 1854Crenshaw, Alabama, USA
mother
18171891
Birth: May 25, 1817Alabama, USA
Death: July 7, 1891Crenshaw, Alabama, USA
Marriage MarriageJanuary 21, 1833Alabama, USA
3 years
elder sister
18351905
Birth: October 1, 1835Alabama, USA
Death: March 15, 1905Crenshaw, Alabama, USA
14 months
elder brother
18361911
Birth: December 6, 1836Alabama, USA
Death: November 15, 1911Crenshaw, Alabama, USA
5 years
elder sister
1841
Birth: about 1841Alabama, USA
Death: probably Corsicana, Navarro, Texas, USA
3 years
herself
18431936
Birth: August 22, 1843Butler County, Alabama, USA
Death: July 8, 1936Mount Pleasant, Titus, Texas, USA
19 months
younger brother
18451924
Birth: March 16, 1845Alabama, USA
Death: July 26, 1924
22 months
younger sister
3 years
younger brother
18491929
Birth: April 11, 1849
Death: January 27, 1929Crenshaw, Alabama, USA
3 years
younger sister
1851
Birth: about 1851Alabama, USA
Death:
19 months
younger brother
18 months
younger brother
Family with James Anderson RHODES
husband
herself
18431936
Birth: August 22, 1843Butler County, Alabama, USA
Death: July 8, 1936Mount Pleasant, Titus, Texas, USA
Marriage MarriageOctober 22, 1868
son
son
son
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daughter
son
daughter
son
daughter
daughter
daughter
daughter
daughter
daughter
daughter
Marriage
Shared note

The chart lists 15 children, 2 sets of twins. A note after child 5, Lizzie says (died). This is a copy of a handwritten letter from our great-grandmother, Sarah Penelope Pollard Rhodes (1843 -1936), mother of Leah Rhodes Jones, written to her daughter, Flaula Irene Holloway of Tanglewood Farm in Newton County, MS., to inform her of the death of her sister, Lucinda Emma Jane (1878-1904). The other names mentioned are sons and daughters. The two graves mentioned, along with other children Rate Mozelle, Clovis Flournoy, Ellie Byron, and the author and her husband, James Anderson Rhodes, are at the back of the Collins City Cemetery, alongside Highway 49 across from the Episcopal church. Collins Friday P.M. May-13-1904
Dear loved ones it is with a sad heart that I am seated to write you to let you know more about the sad ordeal we have just passed through.
Lodelle's (Mary Lodelle 1872-1903) grave is no more a lonely one as another link from our chain is gone. They two are lying side by side in the open cemetery and Doc is over there at work alone with the graves putting palings around them. Clovis had already paled in Lodelles and Doc is changing and palling both together. Oh how hard it is to bear. Lodelles death was hard but we were better prepared to give her up she had been sick so long and we knew she could never get well. We missed her so much and still miss her in every thing and every where but oh what a shock when we learned that Emma had to go too it was so suden am I dent think any one knows the real cause of her death. We had two Drs and I think both good Drs but the case was a puzzle to all of us. I censure myself more than anyone else for Oh I feel to know that I did not do my duty. I will now begin back at the first and try to tell you how it all was.
Emma worked a little harder than usual on Saturday ironing and helping to fix for an icecream and fruit supper Beulah Sudduths on saturday night and then went to the supper and was up late and when she came home her limbs ached right bad but she thought from being on her feet so much the cause so sunday morning being her time to cook she and Pearl cooked breakfast and dinner and supper that day and monday a.m. her week to milk so she milked and churned that day then sat and lay around and said she felt sleepy but before night she told me that she had fever and all the children began saying she had measles she then told me what I have written about how she had been from Saturday night on said she never felt as little like geting up and cooking breakfast in her life as she did sunday morning. I scoled her for doing so also for milking and churning that day. She said she felt better after she stired around some after dinner on suday she went and lay down but that is no unusual thing them to do when they get dinner over with any day. Ruby and Pearl ask me to go down to the edge of the swamp with them to get some magnolia bloms and Biddie & Kate went too and when we got back she had got up and dressed and was siting in the front room so I did not think anything about her being sick but Ellie has told me since that she said she did not feel like geting up but was afraid some one might call and there could be no one to meet them.
On Mondy night was the closing exercises of the school and we had all thought of going the other girls joked her that day told her she was taking measles and could not go but she ask me later on if I cared if she went and I told her no for the measles had been all over Collins so long and I did not think anybody had stayed at home to keep from giving it to others and if she felt like it and wanted to go to do so she said she did not feel so much like it but wanted to go so we all went and she enjoyed so much and then next morning before any of us knew it she was milking again and when I reproved her she said as how I don't feel so bad my head hurts a little but not bad after she got through she went and lay down again said her head was perfectly easy when she was lying down.. I knew she had some fever but thought sure she was taking measles and did not give her anything at all that day. Your Pa went off to Laurel I told him before he left that I expected Emma was taking measles he ordered a galon of whiskey while at Laurel and brought some alcohol with him when he came home Wednesday eve a boarder had some whiskey here and I gave her a little that day (wednesday) to see if she would break out; was going to make a Toddy but she said she had rather have it straight and drank it that way a little at the time for three little drinks after a little while she said it seemed like her stomach was burning up and we thought the whiskey being to strong the cause so she did not drink any more for some little time then she told me to fix her a toddy and she thought she could to to sleep her tongue was coated some but very little more than usual for her (she Piddle and Ellie has bad looking tongues all the time) so I gave her a blue mass pill that night and next morning she said she guessed she did not have measles for she felt weak when the medicine acted. she wanted to go to the kitchen I told her to not go I would bring her something to the bed and stay in bed and take some quinine for fear her fever would rise again I gave her one capsule only she was real strong all the time could get up and walk around and went to the table Thursday dinner said she wanted some pot liquor and when I started to get it she hooted at it said she felt like waiting on herself she did not eat the liquor it was to greasy and got right up and went to the safe and got some buttermilk and ate it. that night her fever rose and was higher than it had been. she and Pearl had been sleeping together but she was so hot that night Pearl made her a pallet but did not rest well and went to the bed two or three times to get on the bed but Emmas was asleep and in a position that left no room for her so she slept on her pallet all night while I know Emmas slept some she did not rest at all because she did not think she slept any at all she said she did not have any pain anywhere but felt strange, different from what she had ever felt before which made us think the stronger she had measles. I gave her a capsule of quinine 7 and one at nine friday morn and she got so deaf she could hardly hear, sent for Dr Blount at noon and she was so nervous she could hardly hold thermometer in her mouth I thought was excited because the Dr had come to see her he said the quinine had made her so her temperature was 101. he left a course of calamel and one capsule quinine for next morning he did not think or did not know as it would be necessary for him to come again but said if she was not alright next day noon to let him know and he would come back we sent and he came but the case puzzling because she said she did not have any pain she wanted buttermilk all day and had friday night but could not drink it while she was taking calamel and saturday she drank 3 or 4 glasses during the day and when Dr. examined her found her bowels a little distended and sore so he said he would have to put her on fever treatment until something else developed. directly after the Dr left she raise right up in the bed and proped back on her hands and I told her to ly down taking hold of her to help her to ly down and she said she could not she was dying Oh you dent know how I did feel for she looked so bad I just talked as fast as I could trying make her think she was only scared, said she was not scared I might not believe it but I would see. Clovis had just got in from from work and helped me with her. her feel and hands were cold and I could hardly find any pulse; had Dr there in a few minutes she seemd to agree after awhile that maybe she was not going to die but said it she had not raised up and we had not talked to her she would have died. Dr left stricknin to give at 11 oclock in the night she begun to complain but was not rational and we could not find out what hurt her. we worked with her for nearly an hour and Could not do anything with her. Dr gave a hiperdermick of morphine and she went to sleep and slept until a little after daylight and waked up in her right mind and drank nearly a cup of coffee and just would get up and sit on a chair for me to make up her bed.
Sunday. we will try to finish and mail this eve I know you are thinking hard about us not writing sooner. Flex came home friday evening I did not get time to write any yesterday he did not hear that E was dead until he got off the train we were all so glad to see him. will now continue telling how Emma was. she got cold between 3 or 4 o clock Monday morning and we never could get her warm any more she was rational part of the time and a part she was you might say crazy all through the day monday she seemed to be in her right mind most of the time and would say that nothing hurt her in the evening she called us all to her bedside and said she was not sick that she never felt better in her life she wanted everyone to come and hug her that she was so happy called for Pa Doc and Clovis but neither one was there Mr. Hollis one of the boarders came to the door and she told him to come to her she wanted to shake hands with him for she loved everybody said she wanted to see Clovis so bad sent Mr. Hollis to the mill after him and then said less not talk anymore now so when he (Clovis) got to the bed she did not notice him we had two Drs that night or evening rather but could not locate the trouble as she did not have much fever and said no where hurt her but her stomach and bowels were swollen and they told me to give her a dose of oil and they came back after night to see how it acted and when it did act her bowels all went down and she said was not sore at all and next morning she seemd a whole lot better wanted to get up told some of them what to iron for her to put on but her feel and hands were just as cold as could be and you could hardly find any pulse at all we worked every way we could to get up circulation and I think she had her right mind the bigest part of the day. The Drs done all they could do and other people came in to help us but it seemed nothing could save her She breated her last at 3:30 Wednesday morning. We all wanted to send telegrams for you all to come if you could and not bury until Thursday eve but the people said she would mortify so bad that it would be best to bury that day Wednesday. I will close for this time to tell you ... all that I have left offin this one I do pray this will find you all well come to see us soon as you can and write real soon to Mother. Monday a.m. have just rec'd your letter am astonished to know that you had not read any of the letters wrote you 4 has been mailed during the last two weeks if you have been attending the office they just simply did not give your mail to you . I am so sorry for you.