Re: John Polly married 1821 Halifax Co., Va. to Mary Hall
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Re: John Polly married 1821 Halifax Co., Va. to Mary Hall
Robert King 8/22/09
I am happy my information was helpful. You might want to try to put your hands on a copy of Goodspeed's history of Crawford County, Arkansas, 1889, which carries a biography of John Hanna Polly. In it he says he was born in Mississippi County, but I see his parents were depicted in adjoining Scott County in the census of 1830. His mother died while he was very young (while residing in Madison County, Missouri) and his father died (in Wayne County, Missouri) when he was about nine years old (about 1849), so he likely had only information he'd learned from his older siblings. The biography states his parents came from Pennsylvania County, Virginia, but that may have been a printer’s boo-boo. I saw the 1830 census of Pittsylvania County, and from it I deduced only one son, aged between five and ten, which I thought might be William C., and two daughters, one -5, one 5-10. Parents aged 30-40. I guess the Solomon Hall beside them is her brother. The father was married a second time in Wayne County to the widow Nancy Peyton. I can't give you her year of birth, but the oldest daughter apparently was Jane, wife of Zedakiah Bedwell, who owned Bedwell Tavern, a landmark at Greenville for a number of years. They had no children. John Hanna apparently was the Bedwell heir and administrator. He sold the property in 1875, according to Cramer's history of Wayne County. Mariah J. Polly, reared in the Bedwell home, became the wife of John Allard, who is believed the son of Hardy Allard who died in 1837 while serving in the state legislature in Jefferson City. These two sons and two daughters are all I know anything about. John Hanna served in the Confederate Army, rose to rank of sergeant major, according to the bio.
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Re: John Polly married 1821 Halifax Co., Va. to Mary Hall
Robert King 8/25/09
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Re: John Polly married 1821 Halifax Co., Va. to Mary Hall
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Re: John Polly married 1821 Halifax Co., Va. to Mary Hall
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Re: John Polly married 1821 Halifax Co., Va. to Mary Hall