Pollock, A. D. (Abraham David), 1807-1890

A. D. Pollock (Abraham David, sometimes Abram David), Pennsylvania-born Presbyterian minister of Richmond and of Fauquier County, Va.; married Elizabeth Gordon Lee, daughter of Charles Lee.

Abraham David Pollock (sometimes Abram David) (1807-1890) was a Pennsylvania-born Presbyterian minister of Richmond and of Fauquier County, Va. He was educated at Washington College and the Union Seminary of Pennsylvania. In 1832 Pollock left Pennsylvania to begin missionary work in destitute places of Virginia. Following Pollock's first church assignment in Culpepper, Va., he moved to Richmond, Va., to take the pulpit of the Shuckoe Hill Church, the largest Presbyterian Church in the state. When his health began to fail in 1841, he took leave from his ministerial duties to vacation in Europe. In the summer of 1843, Pollock resigned his Richmond ministry and moved his family to Fauquier County near Warrington, Va.

Pollock was married to Elizabeth Gordon Lee, daughter of Charles Lee and Margaret Scott Lee. They had six children, Thomas Gordon, Margaret Scott, Elizabeth Hendrick, Roberta, Nannie Lee, and Charles Lee.

Thomas Gordon Pollock (1838-1863), the eldest child of A. D. and Elizabeth Pollock, was born in Richmond, Va., and grew up in Fauquier County, Va. He attended Yale University and the University of Virginia, where he completed law school. Before the Civil war, he practiced law in Morefield and Warrington, Va., and in Shreveport, La. During the war he served as a captain in the Confederate Army in Virginia, participating in the Seven Days' Campaign near Richmond, the Antietam Campaign, and the Gettysburg Campaign, where he was killed.