Polk Cemetery

 

Original survey by Bennie Currey Singh

The Polk Family Cemetery is located between Thornton and Kosse. Mrs. Singh is the great granddaughter of William E. Polk. She reports that there are a number of unmarked graves in this cemetery. Some are of children of the Polk family and some of people who worked for the Polk family.

Polk, Ludy E.
dau of W.E. & N. M. Polk
Her happy soul has winged its way
To one pure, bright eternal day"
7-23-1878 9-14-1890
Polk, William D.
son of W.E. & N. M. Polk
"To angel form thy spirits grown
Thy God has claimed thee for his own"
4-25-1862 11-17-1888
Polk, William E.
Mason and Confederate Soldier.
No pain, no grief, no anxious fear
Can reach the Peaceful Sleeper here"
11-19-1836 1-6-1883

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