So I received my copies of The Other Polks in the mail yesterday. That was a quick turnaround and I was pleasantly surprised by that. First glance has me a bit disappointed because there is very little on Gabriel and Nancy and no mention of their son John who died in the Civil War. Of course, there are some details that I haven’t yet located, and there are some references which I will definitely need to track down and review. I have to remind myself that genealogy is continually evolving as more documents are found and/or digitized. Remember, patience is my friend.

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I did get a head start on Benjamin and Sarah Piety Cox’s oldest daughter Elizabeth this week. There seems to be quite the motherlode of documents available for Shelby County on FamilySearch at home. Elizabeth was married twice–first to Joseph Simpson and then to Samuel Miller. There were plenty of court records, probate records, and land records to piece together this family prior to 1850. On my to do list this week is cross referencing with the various family genealogies I have before moving on to Betsy’s sister Sarah. Ben and Sarah had 11 children, so I’m hoping I can have this family unit close to wrapping up by the end of the summer.

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This week Ancestry gave me three new errors to resolve. I have 5282 errors in the tree–374 possible duplicates, 4304 with no documents, 604 other errors.

• Up first is a 4th cousin 1x removed Cox descendant without any documentation. I filled in a lot of missing data for him and his family.
• Next is a 5th cousin, again from the Cox line, with no documentation. This one was more difficult, but I found a marriage record and was able to call it good.
• The last profile to fix this week is a 2nd cousin 1x removed along my Mattox line. There were a few hints to work from. In a newspaper search I discovered he and his wife started their own business back in the 1980s making kaleidoscopes! So cool!

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This week in the past…
I’d like to take an opportunity to celebrate the anniversaries of births, marriages, and deaths of my bloodlines which will occur during the week ahead.
246 years ago – birth of John C Williams (5th ggf)
183 years ago – death of John C Williams (5th ggf)
176 years ago – marriage of Phillip S Board (5th ggf) and his second wife Susan Robinson
170 years ago – birth of Francis M. Cox (2nd ggf)
165 years ago – marriage of Oliver P. McCullough (3rd ggf) and his second wife Rebecca Grimes
161 years ago – death of Sarah Bunnell Ireland (5th ggm)
135 years ago – death of Josephine Lankford Winkler (3rd ggm)
131 years ago – marriage of Sarah H. Butler (2nd ggm) and John F Thompson (2nd ggf)
124 years ago – death of Amanda Newcomb Butler (3rd ggm)
111 years ago – death of Henry V Gravel (3rd ggf)
46 years ago – death of Lillian Edeine Fielden DeMoss Sutton. Rest in peace, Grandma.

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Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,883 people
End of Week: 27,970 people
Change = +87 persons
Tasks for coming week:

• Review the information in The Other Polks to see if there is anything I don’t already have
• Continue data mining on Ben Cox and Sarah Piety
• Confirm the data from Polk Family and Kinsmen has been added for this family and page numbers are noted for easier citation adding
• Review Coxes of Cox Creek
• Review History of Mariah Creek Christian Church
• Review bio of James Ballard, husband of Susannah Cox