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Polk County Genealogy Records<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPolk was created in 1851 by Paulding and Floyd Counties. Early settlers: David Heslip, Robert Hutchings, Edmund Bray, Vincent Ossert, George West, John Jones.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Names of Families in Polk County Wills, Estates, Marriages<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe records kept at court houses are invaluable to discovering the ancestors. That is because the records include written evidence of the affairs of families. Written, signed, and witnessed. That is why a thorough examination of all of those books is so important. Old wills and estates include the names of neighbors, friends, and relatives. Those are the neighbors, signing and witnessing. Deeds, Marriages, Wills, Inventories, Sales, Annual Returns, Tax Digests, etc. should be examined. Inferior Court Minutes is an interesting book that contains records of those called to work on roads, descriptions of places, local politics, neighbors, etc. There is a certain feel of the past when reading the entire record concerning everyone in the neighborhood. An examination of local graveyards provides even more data, and if we look closely, there are clues as to whom the daughters married.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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      Ammons, Jesse | Atkins, Joel | Ayres, John | Ayres, Moses | Bobo, Letty | Bray, Edmund | Brewster, Hugh | Brooks, Alexander | Brooks, Chivers | Brown, Leannah | Burge, Adolphus | Butts, Joel | Camp, Hosea | Cantrell, R. C. | Carden, Charles | Carnes, John | Carter, Ezekiel | Carter, Rawley | Chisolm, Thomas | Davitte, John | Dawson, John | Devaney, Mary | Davis, Eli | Davis, Israel | Dempsey, James | Drummond, Henry | Drummond, William | Everitt, Alexander | Fambro, Urban | Forister, Sarah | Gibson, Springer | Golding, J. B. | Greenwood, John | Griffin, David | Heslip,David | Heston, John | Hogg, William | Hopper, Jonathan | Hutchings, Robert | Ingraham, Thomas | James, James | Jenkins, William | Johnson, Allen | Jones, John | Lowe, Andrew | Lumpkin, Annis | Marlin, Martin | Mason, Sarah | McGrady, Silas | McIntire, D. W. | Mize, James | Morgan, G. W. | Morgan, Joseph | Morgan, Joseph Adolphus | Morrison, David | Moseley, Benjamin | Ossert, Vincent | Owen, William | Parham, John | Peek, William | Phillips, Henry | Prior, Asa | Sockwell, Thomas | Swanson,James | Terrell, Joel | Thompson, Ephraim | Trotter, Mary | Walthall, Susan | Watts, H. H. | Webster, Reubin | West, George | West, James | Whatley, Wilson | Whitehead,James | Willingham,James | Wilson, Samuel | Wood, John | Wright, William | Wynn, Robert | Young, Augustus | Young, Robert<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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        Polk County Families: Barber\nHistory Explains Everything<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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        The detective work of the genealogist is never complete. The reason is that there are so many questions concerning where they resided, their origins, and the reason that they were on the move. The answers are embedded in history. A perusal of a local church cemetery provides such answers on the tombstone inscriptions, as chlorella, dysentery, and other diseases which swept across the communities of early settlers. Other sources are military records, such as the local militia frequently calling out to fight Indians. Or, was it the Revolutionary War when people left home for three-month spans to fight the enemy and afterward took up land elsewhere? There were primitive forts throughout Georgia all during the period in which white settlers were taking up bounty grants. Several forts had the name Fort Defiance. An exhaustive search discovers that one during the War of 1812 was located near the Jasper-Jones County Line. Consider Colonel Benjamin Hawkins and his published account as to the Indian Agent south of Macon. There were several “camps” and “forts”s; in regions where the population needed protection. Another Fort Defiance, during the same war, was situated at Sunbury when Naval forces protected this harbor. These forts, as well as others, are mentioned in the name catalog at the Georgia State Archives denote military references to where people were serving. However, just writing down these remarks is not enough. One needs to do some research on finding these places because it provides more to historical insight into the lives of our ancestors who came to America during critical times. And there is a story behind it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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