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This post is part 3 of a three part post telling the story of a quest to extend a family line past a dead end. The search for the parents of William G. Polson that lasted over 3 decades.

Part 3, The Epilogue, tells of related discoveries since finding the rosetta stone that unleashed an avalanche of new information on the ancestors and siblings of William G. Polson. The Epilogue lists some new questions going forward, thanks the countless people that helped along the way, and recognizes a new journey is beginning.

Polson pedigree chart now more complete

What do we know now (September 2016)?

Beyond the information provided in the second installment of this series, we know:

1. Although I have not yet proven it, Isaac Poulton and Ann Green, both of Virginia are frequently listed as the parents of William Polson / Poulton, making them the likely paternal grandparents of my William G. Polson.
2. Lucy Davis (William G. Polson’s recently discovered mother) was the daughter of William Davis, a revolutionary war soldier. He was once mentioned by a Tennessee governor as a prominent leader of the Chickamauga Indians. His gravestone in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Jackson County Alabama is twice listed on Findagrave. One of those listings includes many of Lucy Davis’s siblings.
3. William Davis (father of Lucy Davis the mother of William G. Polson) married Mary Ann Black / Blackfox, daughter of Enola Black Fox, a well known Cherokee whose ancestry goes back further.
4. William Davis is likely the source of William G. Polson’s son’s name, William Davis Polson
5. John D. Polson, brother of my William G. Polson, settled in Choctaw County Mississippi with his wife, DeMaries M. Polson (maiden name unknown). It appears they had at least five children (Margaret, Lucy, Mourning, John W., Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin).
6. As mentioned above, John D. Polson, brother of William G. Polson, had a daughter named Lucy Polson, named after their mother. I was able to find that Lucy’s will. She asked her youngest brother (Benjamin Franklin Polson) to be her executor. She asked that after her possessions were sold, the funds be used to place gravestones on the graves of her mother, her father, two brothers and one sister that predeceased her, and on her own grave. Several of those stones can now be seen on Findagrave. That was a very nice request she made. Just like the name “Flora” became commonly used female name in the family after Flora (Ridge) Polson, the name Lucy became a popular name for children after Lucy Polson, mother of John D. Polson and Lucy Polson, daughter of John D. Polson.
7. The husbands and families of several of William G. Polson’s sisters are well documented in Lucy Polson’s probate documents, especially when combined with William Polson’s probate documents.
8. Eliza (Polson) Berry, sister of William G. Polson married Henry / Henderson Berry per the probate documents of William and Lucy Polson. He was more fully known as Blackburn Henderson Berry and as one of the founders of Berryville Arkansas. His first wife, Eliza (Polson) Berry died of typhoid fever in 1854. Findagrave has a nice story, photo of her, and photo of her grave. Blackburn Henderson Berry remarried and moved to California. Eliza’s oldest son was elected to Congress from California. Blackburn Henderson Berry’s nephew became governor of Arkansas in the 1880s.
9. The Proctor family submitted their ties to William Davis (revolutionary war solidier) to Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in the late 1950s. Among the items submitted was an account of 500 people, mostly descendants of William Davis, for the laying of a monument at his grave site by DAR.

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