Records & Resources: Polk County

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Biographies

• Polk County Biographies - at NCPedia.org

Cemeteries

• Polk County Cemeteries - at Find-A-Grave
• Polk County Cemeteries - on the Cemetery Census website

Census Records

• 1860 Polk County Census - transcribed by Sheila Platte
• Census Records (Free at FamilySearch.org) - 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, and 1950

Deaths

• Obituaries & Death Notices - misc. items from historical newspapers
• Polk County Obituaries - posted at the USGenWeb Archives
• North Carolina Deaths 1906-1930 (FamilySearch.org) - includes images
• Social Security Death Index - search for your Polk County individuals

Education

• Polk County Seniors in NC Colleges - database of mostly seniors and mostly pre-1931. Enter "Polk" in the county field and "North Carolina" in the state field.

History

• Sketches of Polk County History - by Sadie Smathers Patton (1950)
• History of Polk County - at NCPedia.org

Marriages

• Polk County Marriages - by Bride Surname | by Groom Surname

Newspapers

• Name Index - Polk County People in the Papers (Google Spreadsheet) - name index of January - March 1902 issues of Polk County News
• Polk County News & Tryon Bee - digitized issues from 1902-1926

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