Gen. Edwin Fitzhugh Polk

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Gen. Edwin Fitzhugh Polk

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Maury County, Tennessee, USA
Death: April 04, 1854 (35)
Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee, USA
Place of Burial: Polk Cemetery, Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee, USA
Immediate Family:

Son of Ezekiel Polk and Sophia Neeley Polk
Husband of Octavia Rowena Polk
Father of Octavia Brooks; Pauline Polk and C Polk
Brother of Col. Charles Perry Polk; Eugenia Neilson and Benigna Wood
Half brother of Ezekiel Franklin Polk, Jr.; Jane Knox Dobson; Matilda Golden Campbell; Thomas B. Polk; Samuel Polk and 5 others

Managed by: David William Stein
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About Gen. Edwin Fitzhugh Polk

Uncle of President James K. Polk.

"Thrice elected to the House of Representatives and once to the State Senate of which body he was Speaker at the time of his death. He rendered signal service to his country."

Death of Gen. Edwin Polk. Bolivar, Tenn., April 4. General Edwin Polk was taken ill on Saturday morning last with constipation of the bowels, and died this morning about 5 o’clock. —Published in Nashville Union and American newspaper (Nashville, Tennessee), Wednesday, April 5, 1854, p. 3.

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Gen. Edwin Fitzhugh Polk's Timeline

1818
May 6, 1818
Maury County, Tennessee, USA
1848
March 10, 1848
Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee, USA
1849
October 10, 1849
1851
December 6, 1851
Hardeman County, Tennessee, USA
1854
April 4, 1854
Age 35
Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee, USA
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Polk Cemetery, Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee, USA