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Susannah Polk Alexander

Susannah Polk Alexander

Female Abt 1752 - 1837  (85 years)


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  • Name Susannah Polk Alexander 
    Birth Abt 1752  Bucks Co., PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 1 Mar 1837  Mecklenburg Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial pos Sugar Creek Cemetery, near Charlotte, NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3243  MyTree
    Last Modified 15 Aug 2009 

    Father Benjamin Alexander, Sr.,   b. Abt 1725, Cecil Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 28 Apr 1807, Mecklenburg Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 82 years) 
    Mother Susan Ruth Polk,   b. Abt 1734, Near Carlisle, Lancaster Co., PA (was Chester Co. until 1730) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1813, Cabarrus Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1747  Cecil Co., MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4658  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Dr. Evan Shelby, MD,   b. Abt 1748, Hunt's Cabin, Hagerstown, Frederick County, MD. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Apr 1825, Cabarrus Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 1774  Anson Co., N.C. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Moses Shelby,   b. Abt 1775, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1826, Mecklenburg Co., N.C. Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
    +2. Isabella Shelby,   b. Abt 1776, Mecklenburg Co., N.C. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1856, Mecklenburg Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 81 years)
    +3. Sarah Shelby,   b. Abt 1778, Mecklenburg Co., N.C. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft Apr 1856 Bef 1860, Big Creek (now Cuba), Shelby Co., TN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    +4. Susannah J. Shelby,   b. Abt 1783, Mecklenburg Co., N.C. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Mar 1853, Mecklenburg Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
     5. William Alexander Shelby,   b. Abt 1786, Mecklenburg Co., N.C. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jan 1855, Big Creek (now Cuba), Shelby Co., TN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     6. Harriet C. Shelby,   b. Abt 1790, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft Apr 1856, Cabarrus Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 66 years)
    +7. Mary Shelby,   b. 15 May 1791, Mecklenburg Co., N.C. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1860, Hickory Wythe (Arlington), Fayette Co., TN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
    +8. Dorcus Shelby,   b. Abt 1795, Mecklenburg Co., N.C. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1856, Raleigh, Shelby Co., TN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 60 years)
    +9. Thomas Shelby,   b. Abt 1797, Mecklenburg Co., N.C. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft Apr 1856, Mecklenburg Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 59 years)
    +10. John Milton Shelby,   b. 30 Jan 1806, Mecklenburg Co., N.C. Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jan 1872, Raleigh, Shelby Co., TN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    Family ID F2829  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2017 

  • Notes 
    • From: "Lineage and Tradition of the Family of John Springs III", by
      Caroline Isabel Poole Jones.
      "Evan Shelby died in NC about 1813. Susan Shelby was left a widow,
      with a large family of children, who remembered hearing their mother
      tell of hardships and bitter experiences. She was often annoyed by
      Indians, Tories and British soldiers and often would go miles with her
      children to some place of safety, carrying the smaller children on her
      blind horse, 'Old Ball'. She never left north Carolina, and spent her
      last days with her daughter, Harriet."

      It is possible that Susanna Shelby is buried in the same cemetery as her daughter, Harriet, the Sugar Creek Cemetery, Mecklenburg Co., near Charlotte, NC.