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Polk Cemetary: Should the Grave be moved !!!

On the old Polk Plantation, sits a solitary grave, that of the well respected and long time resident of the Dark Corners area of Winston, Georgia, Ezekiel Polk. Ezekiel Polk's son Charles Marion Polk is buried in the grave. Peter Carnes a well esteemed and prosperous black farmer bought a section of the old Polk Plantation prior to 1890. And on the property was the grave of supposedly Ezekiel's son Charley Polk. Depending on what version of events that one believes that led to the burial of Charley Polk at its Winston, location, and there are several.  I think it is time the Polks reclaim the body and place him with his family. Charles Polk was captured during the Vicksburg surrender in the summer of 1863. If he indeed died in the Battle of New Hope Church in 1864, what unit was he fighting with. One of the stories that I have listened to says that upon notice of his death, Ezekiel Polk, sent Peter Carnes and several other slaves to fetch his body in a wagon and bring him home.

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