Ancestry of Lt. Gen.
Leonidas Polk

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

Thomas Polk

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• • Grandfather of Leonidas Polk — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • William Polk Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Taylor   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1730 
  • Birth Location:
  • near Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Jan 1794 
  • Death Location:
  • Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Spratt
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1755 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Anson County, North Carolina 
  • Child:

  William Polk (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    Col. Thomas Polk led the baggage train of some seven hundred wagons out of Philadelphia just before the battle of Germantown. Included in the baggage were all of the bells of the city so as to not allow the British to cast them into cannon balls. Among these bells was the "Libery Bell" from the State House which was run on July 8, 1776 to proclaim the Declaration of Independence.

• Sources for Thomas Polk

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A090178.
  • ² Fayetteville Weekly Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina), 21 JAN 1834, p. 3, Obituary for son Col. William Polk.
  • ³ Polk, William Harrison, Polk Family and Kinsmen, Louisville, Kentucky: Bradley and Gilbert Co., Inc. (1912), 108-112, 124-132.