William Harry and Dorothy Pollard Fuller Family Histories
Updated September 3, 2009
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to William (Bill) and Dorothy's Genealogical Search Home Page! We joined this engaging hobby of compiling family history several years ago and are delighted to share family lineage information. To share or inquire, drop us a note at wfuller44@gmail.com or drdpf@yahoo.com. For those interested in seeing our recent immediate family history, a brief synopsis follows.
SURNAMES
Bill's paternal line includes the surnames FULLER and, though his paternal grandmother, HOLMAN. His father, Ellis Dean Fuller, moved with his family from Monett, Missouri, to Paris, Texas, around 1902. Bill's maternal line includes the surnames SMITH, PRICE and BIARD, all of whom were located in Lamar County, Texas, by the end of the 19th century.
Dorothy's paternal line includes the surname POLLARD and, through her paternal grandmother, BIRCH and LITTLETON. The names O'HARE and WALKER figure in her maternal line. Most known modern relatives are in the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma.
BILL'S AND DOROTHY'S LIVES
Bill graduated from Paris (Texas) High School in 1962, attended Paris Junior College, and graduated from North Texas State University (B.A. '66 and M.A. '70); Dorothy, from Pampa (Texas) High School in 1965, Southern Colorado State College (B.S. '71), University of Utah (M.Ed. '77) and Boston University (Ed.D. '94)
We married at the First Unitarian Church of Dallas in 1967 and moved to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where Bill taught English and French at Robertson High School and Dorothy worked in the Dean of Student's Office at New Mexico Highlands University.
In 1968, we moved to Pueblo, Colorado, where Bill had accepted a position as an employee development specialist at Pueblo Army Depot, and where our two daughters, Sherrie Anne and Wendy Lea Fuller, were born.
We moved to Germany in 1971, where Bill held a position as education services officer first in Worms am Rhein and later in Illesheim. In 1976, our family moved from Germany to Dugway, Utah, and in 1978 from Utah to northern Virginia. In Virginia, Bill was director of the Army Continuing Education System for the Army Materiel Command, and Dorothy was a curriculum development specialist for the Combat Engineer School at Fort Belvoir.
In 1980, we moved to the area of Anchorage, Alaska, staying there until after Bill's retirement from Federal Civil Service on 6 Dec 96. During our time in Alaska, Bill was first an education services officer and later a transition services ("outplacement") manager for the Army, and Dorothy was first a training officer for the Army and later the director of learning resources for the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA).
In June 1997, we moved from Alaska to South Dakota, where Dorothy is a professor in the College of Education, Black Hills State University. Bill occupies his retirement time as the Web site editor for the Mountain Plains 2 Homeowners Association and as an occasional freelance writer of model railroad articles (yes, he still plays with toy trains).
BILL AND DOROTHY'S CHILDREN
Our older daughter, Sherrie, is married to Dan Benge and is a registered nurse in Billings, Montana; our younger daughter, Wendy, with a Master's degree in animal science, is married to Brooke Torstenson and has been a project manager for Montana State University in Bozeman, directing an elk management study with a grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Research Initiative. Wendy and Brooke now live in Hayward, Wisconsin, developing land inherited from Brooke's late father.
AN INVITATION
Visitors looking for older family history are invited to look at the descendent outlines linked at the bottom of this page. Should you find that any of our lines connect with yours, please contact us! Also, should any of your information differ from ours, please let us know your sources so that we can correct any errors. Some connections are on the speculative side and are always subject to correction.
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William Harry and Dorothy Pollard Fuller
376 Lone Elk Road
Spearfish, SD 57783-8645
A-United States
605-644-1421
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- Estella BIRCH (71 KB)
Born May 17, 1879, Parkersburg, West Virginia. Died January 31, 1955, Pampa, Texas.
Wife of Alfred W. POLLARD.
- William Harry FULLER (18 KB)
Date of photo: 1998
- William Whaley FULLER (1828 - 1915) (81 KB)
Photograph depicts William Whaley Fuller, his wife Jennie Adelia Thompson Fuller,and their daughters Myrtle Jennie and Marietta, about 1890(?).
- Wendy (Fuller) TORSTENSON & Drake TORSTENSON (32 KB)
Date of photo: June 2000
- Dorothy Estella POLLARD FULLER (46 KB)
Date of photo: 1999
- Franklin Alexander FULLER, ca. 1896 (96 KB)
Franklin Alexander Fuller (1858-1927), wife Amanda Korrine Wood (1858-1932), and children (left to right): Bert H., Mary Bessie, Edward Franklin, Leroy Alexander, and Harry Walker Fuller. Newburg, Missouri, circa 1896.
- Daniel BENGE (38 KB)
Date of photo: July 2000
- Sherrie Anne FULLER-BENGE (10 KB)
Date of photo: 1986
- Myra Smith FULLER, April 15, 1907 - August 3, 2003 (35 KB)
This photograph depicts Myra Smith Fuller as she appeared upon her retirement from teaching at Paris (Texas) Junior College in 1968.
- Edward John POLLARD (31 KB)
Private Edward John Pollard, Company B, 150th Machine Gun Battalion, Rainbow (42nd) Division, killed in action in the Argonne Forest, October 28, 1918.
- Morgan & Ryan BENGE (11 KB)
Date of photo: 1999; Morgan Monet Fuller Benge and Ryan Fuller Benge
- James Monroe Biard, Abt. 1855 (78 KB)
From "Where There Is Vision: A History of the Lamar Avenue Church of Christ, Paris, Texas, 1869-1980" by John H. Cannon, Jr.
- Ellis Dean FULLER, 1897-1978 (17 KB)
PVT E. Dean Fuller, 645th Aero Squadron, AEF, 1918.
- Ellis Dean FULLER, 1897-1978 (19 KB)
E. Dean Fuller, 1947, employed by Paris, Texas, radio station.
- Thomas Henry SKIDMORE (68 KB)
Thomas Henry SKIDMORE, born March 19, 1823 in Morgan County, Alabama; died November 20, 1898 in Biardstown, Lamar County, Texas.
- PVT Robert Edgar SMITH, 1878-1935 (29 KB)
Private in Canadian army, World War I.
- Andrew Jackson BIARD (246 KB)
Andrew Jackson BIARD, born September 10, 1814 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee; died June 14, 1902 in Lamar County, Texas.
- William Harry SMITH, 1871-1927 (6 KB)
Photo by Hudson, Paris, Texas.
- Brooke John TORSTENSON (38 KB)
Brooke John TORSTENSON, husband of Wendy Lea FULLER, born October 20, 1972, married June 6, 1998.
- Unknown Confederate Soldier (79 KB)
The original is owned by Carol Owens Spears. It was given to her by Mildred Smith (Mrs. Dea Millspaugh), daughter of Robert Edgar Smith and Ada Rochester Sanders. Sources have identified the uniform as that of an enlisted soldier in a Confederate cavalry unit. Assuming that the man is indeed a relative, is he a Smith, a Skidmore, a Sanders? Could he be Robert Orlando Smith himself or maybe Shadrack Hendricks, first husband of R.O. Smith’s wife, Nancy America Skidmore?
- John Dixon BIRCH and Nancy LITTLETON BIRCH (13 KB)
John D. Birch was born January 13, 1837, and died February 2, 1902, in Parkersburg, W. Va. His wife, Nancy Littleton, was born October 27, 1846 and died in 1923. John D. Birch was a West Virginia veteran of the War Between the States.
- The Lady Needs a Name (45 KB)
This image was in the collection of Nancy Claudia Price Smith (1875-1951) but her identity has been lost in time. Is she a northeast Texas Price? Smith? Biard?
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