Re: Polk/Pollock DNA Tests, etc
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Re: Polk/Pollock DNA Tests, etc
Billy Polk 3/06/12
Thank you so much for finding that C.P. was Carl Porter. I can strike that from my list now. It is very good that the family preserved those letters. It helped so much.
I also learned that Isaac Polk Roberson, Jr. was abusive to Mary Douglas, just as my g-grandfather was to Mattie. We have a history now, of bipolar disorder in my family, and I believe these men both may have been bipolar. Nobody would have known what it was back then.
We have never heard or ever found any information that Charley Polk and Mattie were divorced. She is listed on the censuses starting in 1910, as widowed. I believe in 1910, that may have just been a mistake by the census taker. Her mother was a widow, and then Mattie was living there with the kids. They may have assumed she was also widowed.
There's an interesting family story about coming back from Oklahoma. Mattie and the 5 kids came alone in a buckboard wagon. They put my grandfather, who was just a baby, on the floor, and Mattie put her foot on him to keep him from bouncing out of the wagon. Paw-Paw loved to tell that story. Aunt Jessie, who was the oldest in the family, would have been 12 at that time. She remembered a lot.
I have not found any death record that I thought could be Charley Polk, except for that C.P. in Dallas. Some of our family thought that Charley had gone to California at some time, but nobody knows for sure. Funny thing that Tim Roberson lives there, and my grandfather's 2 kids from his first marriage, Mattie Ruth Roberson Taylor and Billy Mack Roberson, lived in California for many years.
Thanks in advance, for any more help. I appreciate it.
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Tim Roberson 3/11/12
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Cindy Hartman 3/11/12
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