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Ephraim J. Polk (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and examiner for Mercer County)

b. 1829-01-16 d. 1896-06-17

Mercer County, Kentucky, school teacher, attorney, and county examiner. Kentucky native. Son of Jefferson Johnson Polk and Eliza Tod Polk. Married to Mary Ellen Newton Polk in Mercer County, Kentucky, on July 15, 1858. Father of Martha Ferguson Polk, Eliza Catharine Polk, and John Newton Polk. Teacher in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Mercer County in 1860. Household owned four enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860. Examiner for Mercer County in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 1, p. 328A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 689.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 46A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 593A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film 000191863.

William Harrison Polk, Polk Family and Kinsmen, (Louisville, KY: Press of the Bradley & Gilbert Co., 1912): 557-565, 568.

"Ephraim Jehoshaphat Polk (1829-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial 55806988, accessed October 19, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55806988.

KYR-0001-020-1518.

Citation

Polk, Ephraim J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208099 (November 12, 2026).

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