Attn Bill Polk - Colonel Thomas Polk (1757-1842)
Bill, I hope your trip was as enjoyable as my own.I hope you're back into the mood of more Polk family history.
Living in North Carolina, I have an advantage, maybe, of reading more Polk history by more folk than you can keep up with.
So I have another topic of which I haven't seen a discussion by you.In this case, the book seems to be well documented by a writer, Margie (Williams) Baucom who lived (or still lives) in the same area where Colonel Thomas Polk (1757-1842 Union Co. NC ) lived and died.His first wife was Mary Shelby (1765-1841 Anson Co. NC.Margie's book is written on the Brook Family of Anson and Union Co. NC titled"The Brooks Bridge of History" first published in 1980 and reprinted in 1990 (copy that I have).
Let me ask your opinion first, of the parents of Mary Shelby.On page 60, Margie states that Mary Shelby is the daughter of Reese Shelby, Sr.(wife's name not given.
Is this a mistake or is her parents Thomas Shelby, Jr. and Hannah Polk who has a son named Reese Shelby?She also gives the parents of Colonel Thomas Polk as William and Margaret (Taylor) Polk.Somewhere I picked him up as the son of William Polk III (1725 - died after 1802) and wife Catherine Stearns.In your opinion, (or proof), which of these two differences is correct?
Now to continue with my discussion of Colonel Thomas Polk (1757-1842).Thomas and Mary lived on Watson's Creek , but later moved near Richardson Creek, at what was then called Little Mountain.After his settlement there, it was called Polk Mountain where he died in 1842.She lists the children of Colonel Thomas and Mary as follows: Shelby, Andrew, Thomas,Jr., (married Sarah Brooks, d/o William II and Mary (Burleson) Brooks) Jobe, Hannah, Dicey, Patsy (nickname for Margaret), Mary (married Aaron Little), and Elizabeth. This lists of children are the same as other writers that I have seen.Do you agree with it?
As the story goes, after Mary's death, Colonel Polk saw Kiziah Tarlton, a beautiful 18 years old girl to whom he promisedan apron full of gold if she would marry him.I've seen this legend written different ways but that is the gist of it.Page 59 - Her full name as the wife of Davidson Brooks (1815-1889, s/o William and Maru (Burleson) Brooks, II)who she married in 1842, is Kiziah(Kissie) Melinda Tarlton (1825-1864), daughter of John and Mary Ann (Parrott) Tarlton.
Kiziah married the Colonel in 1841 and he died eight months later on May 30 1842 in Union (formerly Anson) Co. NC leaving a very well-to-do widow.Page 105, The Kiziah Brooks Dower was filed in Union Co. NC.A group of men were sworn in to lay off and alot to Kiziah Polk, (young) widow & relict of Thomas Polk, dec'd alias Kiziah Brooks (she married her lover Davidson Brooks in 1842) her dower and third in the lands of Thomas Polk dec'd.The total acres which was alotted to her was 542 acres which was already in her possession and may have included Polk Mountain on Richardson Creek.It was written 28 day of September 1843.
There is a little more in the book about gold which he tried to tell her about with his dying breath which was never found.
I thought you might not have heard about this one.
Betty K. Price
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