Mary Ella Pollard Tynes

' Mary Ella Pollard ' was an American poet, born in Birmingham, Alabama on February 7, 1884, died May 17, 1975.. Her parents were George W. and Willie Smith Pollard.

Life and Poetry
Pollard published poems in periodicals and anthologies, was a member of the Poetry Society of Alabama (and was the first president, the Alabama Writers’ Conclave; National League of American Penwomen. Founder of the Artists’ Forum.  She was active in civic affairs in Birmingham.

Married William Tynes
William Doric Tynes Jr (born September 11, 1863 in Mississippi; died August 19, 1933 in Birmingham) was the co-founder of the Hardie-Tynes Manufacturing Co.

Tynes partnered with William Hardie, son of Birmingham Iron Works founder John Hardie to establish the Birmingham Engine Works in 1895. The company took its founders' names when it moved to new facilities after a fire in 1903.

Tynes had six children with his first wife, the former Mary Jennie Watts. She died in 1905 and he remarried, to poet Mary Ella Pollard in 1914.

Tynes died in August 1933 and is buried at Elmwood Cemetery.

Publications

 * In Some Blue Dawn. Dallas: Kaleidograph Press, 1939.


 * Radiant Road. Boston:  Bruce Humphries, 1931.


 * The Sunset Hill. Dallas:  Kaleidograph, 1935.