Col. Thomas Polk

Not the same as Thomas Polk

Thomas Polk is identified as a Patriot by the Daughters of the American Revolution: < Ancestor #: A090170 >

His DAR entry indicates:

• Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE
• Birth: 1757 ANSON CO NORTH CAROLINA
• Death: 5-30-1842 ANSON CO NORTH CAROLINA
• Service Source: NC REV ARMY ACCTS, VOL 1, P 66, FOLIO 4; P 67, FOLIO 1; ROLL #54.4
• Service Description: 1) PAID FOR SERVICES RENDERED
• Spouses: 1) Mary Shelby 2) Keziah Tarlton

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Biography

Colonel Thomas Polk, son of William Polk and Elizabeth Spratt, was born February 28, 1757, in Anson county, North Carolina, died May 3, 1842, in New Salem, Union county, North Carolina,[3] In 1781, married Mary Shelby, a daughter of Reese Shelby and Mary Blair and sister to Thomas Shelby, who married his sister, Hannah. Mary Shelby died in 1840 and Thomas married Kiziah Melinda Tarlton, born 1825, a daughter of John P. "Jackie" Tarlton and his wife, Mary "Polly" Parrot.

Thomas died eight months after marrying his young bride.

Children listed at DAR:

1. Andrew, m Colon Caraway
2. Hannah, m Adam Long
3. Mary, m Aaron Little
4. Thomas, m Sarah Brooks
5. Shelby, m Winneford Coburn

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Mary Shelby Polk lived in what is now Union County, NC near Euto (Now New Salem). She reportedly died around 1840; her husband remarried to Keziah Tarlton.

Notes

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32400024/thomas-polk

The tombstone information belongs to Col. Thomas Jefferson Polk's uncle, General Thomas Polk of Mecklenburg, NC.. The marker at Polk Mountain at the Col. Thomas Polk's cemetery was placed there C.1955 and the information inscribed on the stone is referring to General Thomas Polk, Col. Thomas Polk's Uncle. I have researched this for years and the pictures posted are mine.

Col Thomas Jefferson Polk had no rank in the Revolutionary War. He supplied material, troops and money to his Uncle General Thomas Polk. He received the title Col. after the war while he was serving in the militia. The title Col. was an honorary title most of his life.

Bobbie Johnson

Comments

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Polk-467

The Actual Colonel Thomas Polk and his wife Susan Spratt Polk are buried at the Old Settlers Cemetery in Charlotte, NC, off of Trade Street. That Colonel Thomas Polk was Born in 1732 and died on 6 June 1794. This is another Thomas Polk's Grave.

References

• GEDCOM Note. Referencing “The Shelby Family” by Howard S. Galloway, p. 28 & 29, and Miss Ruby J. Shelby’s correspondence, Caroline A. (Paul) Shelby reports in 1964 that Mary lived in Mechlenburg Co., NC (now Union County), a few miles from New Salem. Caroline A. (Paul) Shelby's letter to the Charlotte, North Caroline Library, dated 03/17/1971 reports: "I have read Mrs. Petteway's article [Bonnie Austin Petteway] in The Genealogical Helper of March 1953 covering the story of how Colonel Thomas Polk carried Mary Shelby away on horseback as an elopement gesture."
• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via sister Hannah Shelby (born Polk) by SmartCopy: Jun 22 2015, 23:49:36 UTC
• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via sister Hannah Shelby (born Polk) by SmartCopy: Jun 22 2015, 23:49:36 UTC
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Spratt-403
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Polk-467
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32400024/thomas-polk
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148225516/mary-polk
• http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full...