When Jonathan Polk was born in 1785, in Darlington, Darlington, South Carolina, United States, his father, Thomas Polk Jr, was 52 and his mother, Mary Wilson, was 53. He married Nancy Kerby Hunt in 1814, in Darlington, Darlington, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Darlington, South Carolina, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1864, in Marion, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Old Greens Creek Cemetery, Carson, Jefferson Davis, Mississippi, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina ratifies the Constitution of the United States making it the 8th State of the Union.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Scottish: shortened form of Pollock .
Sorbian (Półk and Pólk): probably from a short form of a personal name based on Old Slavic plъkъ ‘crowd, army’ (see Polka 3).
East German (of Slavic origin): variant of Polke .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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