Uncle of President James K. Polk.
"Thrice elected to the House of Representatives and once to the State Senate of which body he was Speaker at the time of his death. He rendered signal service to his country."
Death of Gen. Edwin Polk.
Bolivar, Tenn., April 4.
General Edwin Polk was taken ill on Saturday morning last with constipation of the bowels, and died this morning about 5 o’clock. —Published in Nashville Union and American newspaper (Nashville, Tennessee), Wednesday, April 5, 1854, p. 3.
"Thrice elected to the House of Representatives and once to the State Senate of which body he was Speaker at the time of his death. He rendered signal service to his country."
Death of Gen. Edwin Polk.
Bolivar, Tenn., April 4.
General Edwin Polk was taken ill on Saturday morning last with constipation of the bowels, and died this morning about 5 o’clock. —Published in Nashville Union and American newspaper (Nashville, Tennessee), Wednesday, April 5, 1854, p. 3.
Uncle of President James K. Polk.
"Thrice elected to the House of Representatives and once to the State Senate of which body he was Speaker at the time of his death. He rendered signal service to his country."
Death of Gen. Edwin Polk.
Bolivar, Tenn., April 4.
General Edwin Polk was taken ill on Saturday morning last with constipation of the bowels, and died this morning about 5 o’clock. —Published in Nashville Union and American newspaper (Nashville, Tennessee), Wednesday, April 5, 1854, p. 3.
"Thrice elected to the House of Representatives and once to the State Senate of which body he was Speaker at the time of his death. He rendered signal service to his country."
Death of Gen. Edwin Polk.
Bolivar, Tenn., April 4.
General Edwin Polk was taken ill on Saturday morning last with constipation of the bowels, and died this morning about 5 o’clock. —Published in Nashville Union and American newspaper (Nashville, Tennessee), Wednesday, April 5, 1854, p. 3.
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