POLK, Sarah (Shoptaw)
Date of death: 3 Feb 1890 – Greenwood, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 7, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 33, page 1 column 5
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GREENWOOD.
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Mrs. Sarah Polk died at 5:55 p.m. Feb 3 at the residence of Dr. Carnes.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 7, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 33, page 6 column 1
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Mrs. Sarah Polk died at the residence of Dr. Carnes, of Greenwood, on Tuesday evening, at the age of eighty-five. She was a most estimable Christian lady.
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Link to Sarah (Shoptaw) Polk’s grave
Note: Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797–1954, database with images, records that William Polk married Sariah [sic] Shoptaw on 21 May 1828 in Nelson County. (Reference: FHL microfilm 9669)
The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 160, referencing Book H-16, page 37, records that Sarah Polk, an eighty-five-year-old white female, died 4 February 1890 in Greenwood.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry