Ancestry of Lt. Gen.
Leonidas Polk

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

Leonidas Polk

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Polk 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Hawkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Apr 1806 
  • Birth Location:
  • Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Jun 1864 
  • Death Location:
  • Cobb County, Georgia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana 
  • Notes: 

  • Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk

    Confederate States Army

    First Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana

• Marriages for Leonidas Polk

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  • Spouse:
  • Frances Ann Devereux

• Sources for Leonidas Polk

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A090178.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/02/2021).
  • ³ The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History, Raleigh, North Carolina: The North Carolina Society, Daughters of the Revolution, 1920, Vol. 19, No. 3, p.92.
  • ⁴ Polk, William Harrison, Polk Family and Kinsmen, Louisville, Kentucky: Bradley and Gilbert Co., Inc. (1912), 108.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Leonidas Polk", (accessed 12/02/2021).