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Polk Grundy Johnson

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Polk Grundy Johnson

Birth
Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA
Death
28 Jul 1889 (aged 44)
New York, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA GPS-Latitude: 36.5072339, Longitude: -87.3429817
Plot
Section 5, Lot 19
Memorial ID
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See MEMORIAL #15212649

I TRIED TO GET MEMORIALS MERGED BUT DIDN"T HAPPEN. I don't want to delete and thereby "orphan" any ancestry.com or other sites' references.

Memorial inscribed on 4 sides:

SIDE 1
Polk Grundy Johnson
Youngest son of Cave and Elizabeth Johnson
born in Clarksville, Tennessee
November 2, 1844
Died in the city of New York, July 28, 1889.

SIDE 2
What I do thou knowest not now but thou shalt know hereafter.

SIDE 3
He enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army at sixteen years of age.
Was three years in active service and one year in a northern prison. He rose to the rank of captain and surrendered with General Lee at Appromattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865.

"No land eer had a truer son, no cause a braver champion."

SIDE 4
I am the resurrection and the life.
See MEMORIAL #15212649

I TRIED TO GET MEMORIALS MERGED BUT DIDN"T HAPPEN. I don't want to delete and thereby "orphan" any ancestry.com or other sites' references.

Memorial inscribed on 4 sides:

SIDE 1
Polk Grundy Johnson
Youngest son of Cave and Elizabeth Johnson
born in Clarksville, Tennessee
November 2, 1844
Died in the city of New York, July 28, 1889.

SIDE 2
What I do thou knowest not now but thou shalt know hereafter.

SIDE 3
He enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army at sixteen years of age.
Was three years in active service and one year in a northern prison. He rose to the rank of captain and surrendered with General Lee at Appromattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865.

"No land eer had a truer son, no cause a braver champion."

SIDE 4
I am the resurrection and the life.

Inscription

Captain, Company A, 49th Tenn. Infantry CSA



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