These file links are to the index to Polk County Historical & Genealogical Society Quarterly publication.  They begin with Volume 1, Summer, 1995 to Volume 14, May 2008.

 

Copies may be available.  There is a fee for copies of the quarterlies when available.  Copies of individual articles may be available on request. 

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     Polk County Historical
 & 
 Genealogical Society

P. O. Box 636
Benton, TN 37307

E-Mail  presswood@bellsouth.net

 

There are 4 publications in each volume with the exception of vol. 1

 

Vol. I  & Vol. 2

Vol. 3 & Vol. 4

Vol. 5 & Vol. 6

Vol. 7 & Vol. 8

Vol. 9 & Vol. 10

Vol. 11 & Vol. 12

Vol.13 & Vol. 14

 

 

Volume 15, #1 May 2009

Society News

Polks Peck of Pioneer Pickels

Bandick and Lou Ellen Mealer Hall

Sexton, Burn, Chastain and All in Between

Alexander, Births/Deaths

More Polk Presswoods  & Pictures

Confederate Monument Dedication

Recollections of the War Between the States

Morgans & Baxters with Some Dunns & Burgers

Land, Davis, Morris & Trotter

Ancestors of James P. Land

Where the Trail of Tears Began in Polk County

First Families of Polk County

 

Volume 15, Number 2, August 2009

First Families of Polk Co, Almon Guinn

Thomas Jefferson Bandy

Orr, Evans, Burrell

Any Lillards or Couches Left to Research?

John and Malvina Van Horn Phillips

Pea Patch Jim Phillips

Six of Family Killed in Wreck

Odds 'n Ends on the Dunn and Green Family

Jenkins, Cheek, Ammons, Secrest & Garland

Go Figure! The George Bennie Saga

Davenport & Sosebees

Did you Know Polk Had Kellers & Keys

Grandma Docia Ran a Hotel

What a Lovely Love Baby Picture

Those Mysterious Melungeons

Blacks in Polk Co.

History of Old Fort Post Office

Descendants of Burrell Jordan

Dunn, Davis and Daniel Boone

Go Google Garren

Kilpatrick Gas Station in Turtletown

 

Volume 15, November 2009, Number 3

Happy 102nd Birthday Miss Martha

First Families of Polk Co, Priscilla Barnett Crawford

THree Mulkey Kinfolk Meet

Personal Memoirs of James Donaldson Clemmer

Miles Family Bible Records

They Didn't Twitter in the Twenties

Nancy Ward Descendants Visit Our Library

Some Polk County Marriages/Deaths from the 1840's

Abel Brown and Nancy Godfrey

And the Sparks Just Flew

Burnette, Senters, Jernigan - From Tennessee to Texas

Can You Find My Grandma, Beulah Stover

SHHHH, I think My Grandma May Be Illegitimate

The Wasleys of Easley Ford in Polk County

Sources Just Slow Me Down

More on Danl Boone.  Ted Kliora Meets 'Prez; Presswood

A Year Without A Summer

Are you Related to James and Matilda Long

Civilian Conservation Corp, Old Hickory #1431

Ancestors of Oleta Wiley

Many Moseley Marriages

Can You ID?  Haskins, Shamblin, Hannah, Ferguson Pictures

 

Volume 15, February 2010, Number 4

John Paris Talks About Taylors and Williams School

This Stone Trail is Stone Cold

Tracking the Polk County Johnsons and Evans

Georgia Thomas and Sam Strickland

Death of Mrs. D.B. Haskins

It's Sufferin' For Polk County Men

William W. Henry, A Polk County Pioneer

Yet Another Jacob Cross Connection - Trantham

Civil War Reunion Picture

Thomas Lawson Nelson

Uncle Oscar's WW I Silver Star Medal

Lots of Locks, Reeds, and Related Families

A Sunday Picnic Party Meets Terrible Disaster

Little Lillie Weber

The Other Polk County Wards, Kibbles 'n Bits

Index to Polk County Court Minutes 1840-1843 (article posted at www.rootsweb.com/~tnpchgs)

 

Volume 16, May 2010, Number 1

In Memoriam, Edith Cloud Pritchard

John Brown's Body Lies a Moldering in the Grave

Clifford Thompson Executed for Murder of Cloeman Osborn: 1928

Greatest Hunter in the Land - Daniel Boone Goforth

Two Carden Lines in Polk County?

Shell Family Pictures

Polk KIA in the Vietnam War

The "Meeks" Shall Inherit the Earth

James Crittenden Baker and Sarah Smith

A Tidbit More on the Henry Standridge and Eliza Jane Rymer Family

Womac, Womack, Wommack, Warmack, et al

Fort Delaware & Finn's Point Cemetery

Kincaid, Hooker & Fergusons Who 'Went West'

Mark Barker Family Picture - 1907

Larkin Lewis' Daddy and the Pangle Tangle

April is Confederate History Month

Daniel David Smith Does Have Parents - We found them

Abstract of the Existing Records Relating to the Public Roads (article online at www.rootsweb.com/~tnpchgs)

 

Volume 16, August 2010, Number 2

The Wanderings of a Dunn Researcher

The Basic Rules of Clotheslines and A Clothesline Poem

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose - or is it?

Independent Order of Odd Fellows - 100F

New York, New York

Do You Do Dowsing?  I Do!

Photography as a Tool in Genealogy

Bogged Down in Blackwells

History of the Occaneechi Band of Saponi Indians

Descendents of John Blackwell

Looking for Southern Crosses of Honor

Discovery of Old Grave in Polk Recalls Indian Days - (article online at www.rootsweb.com/~tnpchgs)

The Soap Opera Life of Hood, Sampson, Shannon and Fortner

You Wouldn't Know Any Wootens, Would You?