NC, Mecklenburg, Cemetery, Polk Cemetery
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POLK CEMETERY
From:  Early Family Burial Grounds of Mecklenburg County, NC compiled by some 
local DAR members in the 1950s.  Information in ( ) was added by the people 
who compiled the records of the cemetery.

Polk Cemetery is located near Pineville, NC across from the old Sterling 
School and is now near I-485.

Ezekiel Polk						Eliza Polk
April 2, 1793						19th April 1776
Beneath this slab lies the				Aged, 19 days
interned of an innocent that 
never erred. A mothers hope in				Maria Wilson Polk
racking pain and six times blasted again.		29th Nov 1791..45 yrs
Who was the still born son of Ezekiel Polk		(grandmother of James
(The following information was furnished		 K. Polk)
by Mr. Red Buck Bryant:  This child was
born to Ezekiel Polk and 1st wife, Mary Wilson.	
To 2nd wife, Sophia Neely, 8 children: Ezekiel,	
Mary Wilson, Thomas, Samuel, William and		In memory of Deborah 
Matilda)						McCleary who died Sept 
							21, 1811, age 78 years
							(Margaret Polk died 
							after 1765,
Here lies the body					was thought to be the 
of Margaret McCleary					mother of Ezekiel Polk
Who departed this life					and wife of William
Jan. 10, 1763 (no age given)				Polk.   She made her 
							home with her 
							daughter, the above 
							Deborah	McCleary after 
							her husband's death.)
Sacred to the memory of
Samuel McCleary who died				Margaret Polk
Dec 11, 1798						Died 1763 (Thought to 
In the 66th year of his age.				be the Mother of 
							Ezekiel Polk and wife
							of Wm. Polk, II. 
							Daughter was
							Deborah McCleary)
Eleazer Alexander
Died 8th Nov 1842					James Alexander
Age 45							Oct 18, 1804
							Age 39
Ezra Alexander						Son of Ezra Alexander
Who died July 6, 1820	
Aged 60 yrs						Mary Alexander
							Sept 8, 1814
(Double headstone of Mary and Ezra			Aged 70 yrs.
Alexander bears emblems of rising sun & moon)

In memory of Samuel Roach				George Dodd
Who departed this life in				Died 178- (broken 
the year 1781, age 44 yrs.				stone)(thought to be 
							the father of	
							Elizabeth Dodd who 
							married William, son 
							of Ezekiel Wilson)