Ancestry of Lt. Gen.
Leonidas Polk

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

William Polk

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• • Father of Leonidas Polk — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Polk 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Spratt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jul 1758 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Jan 1834 
  • Death Location:
  • Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • City Cemetery, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Hawkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT Jan 1801 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Warren County, North Carolina 
  • Child:

  Leonidas Polk (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Additional marriages for William Polk

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  • Spouse:
  • Grizelda Gilchrist
  • Marriage Date:
  • Oct 1789

• Sources for William Polk

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A090198.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A090178.
  • ³ Fayetteville Weekly Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina), 21 JAN 1834, p. 3, Obituary for Col. William Polk.
  • ⁴ Fayetteville Weekly Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina), 27 DEC 1843, p. 3, Obituary for spouse Sarah Polk.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/02/2021).
  • ⁶ Polk, William Harrison, Polk Family and Kinsmen, Louisville, Kentucky: Bradley and Gilbert Co., Inc. (1912), 108, 133-145.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Leonidas Polk", (accessed 12/02/2021).
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "William Polk (colonel)", (accessed 12/02/2021).