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- The Old Settler's Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC:
One of the figures from the Revolutionary era buried there is Colonel
Thomas Polk (owner of Polk Mountain in Union County, N.C.) married to
Susan Spratt, died in 1793, and was the son of William Polk III, the
eldest son of William Polk II and Margaret Taylor and the great-uncle
of President James K. Polk. Among his accomplishments were reported to
be his holding office as one of the county's first commissioners,
being treasurer and trustee of Queens College and a member of the
Colonial Assembly, and signing the Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence. Next to him is his wife, Susannah Spratt Polk, whose
father's house, that of Thomas Spratt, was the site of the first court
held in Mecklenburg County.
On Thomas and Susan's tombstone was written: "Herein lies interr'd the
Earthly remains of General Thomas Polk and his wife Susanna Polk who
lived many years together purely beloved and respected in their many
virtues and died universally regretted by all who had the pleasure of
their acquaintance. Their son William Polk as a token of his filial
regards has caused this tomb to be errected to their memory"
"Reminiscenses", a newspaper column in the Charlotte Observer on Oct
21, 1951 wrote: "Three pioneers who came to western North Carolina to
worship God as they saw fit,k and remained to help build a state, were
Thomas Spratt, who settled south of Pineville, Thomas Polk who
followed him to court his daughter Susan ... Spratt came with an ox
team, the first wheeled vehicle to cross the Yadkin river, and Polk
traveled afoot ... Several of his (Thomas Polk) brothers followed him
down from Maryland and Virginia. "
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1757 - 1794 (37 years)