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Rh Carolina to finish his collegiate course; returned to Tennessee, studied law and obtained license. Under Tylers administration he was United States minister to the court of Rome and Naples. He was an officer in the Mexican war (Major of Third Dragoons); was also member of Congress from Tennessee. He died in Nashville, Tenn., in 1862, aged forty-seven years. He first married Miss Corse, of New York, by whom he had one son:

James^ Knox Polk.

In 1854: he married, second time, Miss Lucy E. Williams, who is still living in Warrenton, X. C, and who has kindly furnished much of the data for the Polk branch. It will be remembered that it was she who sent us the drawing of the kneebuckle w^orn by James Knox, her grandfather-in-law, when in the Revolution. They had two sons: William^ and Tasker^ Polk.

William" Polk was a promising young lawyer; died in Birmingham, Ala., in 1886.

Tasker"' Polk, a gifted writer and law^yer, married Eliza Tannahill Jones. They have two children : :

William" Polk.

Marv« Polk.

Samuel* Polk, youngest son of Samuel and Jeanotte Polk, was born October IT, 1817; died single.

James* Knox Polk, the eleventh President of the United States, was born near Charlotte, in Mecklenburg county, X. C, November 2, 1795. He was the eldest of ten children. His father was Samuel Polk, son of Ezekiel Polk, else where mentioned. His mother was Jean, or Jeanette Knox, daughter of James Knox, of Revolutionary fame, of Rowan county, X. C, for whom her first son was named. This James Knox, as has already been stated, was a son of John Knox, emigrant.

From Jenkins' Life of James K. Polk we gather much of the following sketch: