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William Polk

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Birthplace: Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: June 26, 1794 (68)
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States
Place of Burial: Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of William Polk and Margaret Taylor Taylor
Husband of Sarah Polk and Elizabeth ‘Grizzie’ Polk
Father of Col. Thomas Polk; Hannah Shelby; William Wesley Polk; John Polk; Ezekiel Polk and 2 others

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About William Polk


Captain William Polk served with North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution William Polk is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A090194

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Spratt-403

Elizabeth Grizzie Spratt was born in 1732, in Ireland. About 1751, in Anson county, North Carolina, Elizabeth married Captain William Polk, born circa 1733, in New Hanover Precinct, North Carolina. Elizabeth and William were residing in Anson county, North Carolina (established in 1750) at the time of the American Revolutionary War.

They became parents of children, including:

  1. Hannah Polk, born 1755, in Anson county, North Carolina, died in 1823, in Maury county, Tennessee,[1] married Thomas Shelby, born 1750, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, a son of Reese Shelby and Mary Blair[2]
  2. Colonel Thomas Polk, 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 eight months after marrying his young bride.
  3. William Wesley Polk, born circa 1760, in Anson county, North Carolina, died circa 1840, in Missouri, married Mary Ross.
  4. John Polk, born 1762, in Anson county, North Carolina, died 1846, in Crooked Creek, Anson county, North Carolina
  5. Ezekiel Polk, born 1765, in Anson county, North Carolina, died 1791
  6. Nancy Polk, born 1771, in Anson county, North Carolina, died 1830, married Johnathan Shelby, born 1761, a son of Rees(e) Shelby and Mary Blair

Elizabeth (Spratt) Polk died October 2, 1799, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, and is buried in the Old Settlers Cemetery, in Charlotte. There is a photograph of her headstone on her Find A Grave memorial. [4]

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William Polk's Timeline

1725
July 29, 1725
Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
1755
1755
Anson County, North Carolina, United States
1757
February 28, 1757
Anson County, North Carolina, British Colonial America
1759
1759
Anson County, North Carolina
1762
1762
1765
1765
1768
1768
1794
June 26, 1794
Age 68
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States
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