Polk Station was named as part of the deal between the Illinois Central Railroad and John Polk when a right of way was needed through the John Polk farm.<\/p>\n
John and Agnes Polk (see Polk Family Bio<\/a>) came to Obion County circa 1833 from South Carolina and settled on the highest hill and built a home.\u00a0 Family lore suggests that John might be the son of Ezekiel Polk and uncle of President James K. Polk.\u00a0 He was a successful farmer and the father of eight children who all went to Texas except the two youngest sons, James and William.<\/p>\n William “Billy” Polk married in 1856 Susan Harper and they had 14 children, of whom only four daughters and one son married.\u00a0 Some descendants presently live in Obion County.<\/p>\n As a side note, William Polk of North Carolina, a relative of John, gave the fifty acres for the town of Troy and an additional 15 acres for the commons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Polk Station was named as part of the deal between the Illinois Central Railroad and John Polk when a right of way was needed through the John Polk farm. John and Agnes Polk (see Polk Family Bio) came to Obion …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}