Family History of Rebecca Polk
Allen Lee Polk (1937-2004)
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Family History of Rebecca Polk
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Allen Lee Polk (1937-2004) and great-grandson, Kevin Lee Polk (1959- )
would work years later. They would raise their children here and at some point, constructed a second house by the barn and fields. 359 Perry, like several members of Rebecca’s family, was a farmer for most, if not all his life. Perry’s father, Joseph, was one of the 80% of Americans during the 1800s, who was a farmer. 360 When Perry was 20 in 1910, 15% of Americans were farmers with an additional 18% of Amer- icans working as farmers. 361 Ninety years later in 2000, at least one of Perry’s grandchildren, Allen, and at least one great-grandchild made up the roughly 1% of Americans who were farmers. 362 Conversely, members of Rebecca’s family such as her paternal grandmother’s parents Noah and Amanda, and maternal grandfather’s parents, abandoned farming by the early 20 th century in favor of blue-collar jobs, or newly cre- ated jobs such as jobs in hospital or computing jobs. Perry was 27 years old, World War I broke out and he was required to complete a draft registration card as he was young enough to be drafted. 363 On his draft registration, he claimed exemption from being 359 Polk, personal knowledge. 360 "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://fami- lysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DCZS-G5P?cc=1325221&wc=9B7N- Y4B%3A1032173901%2C1032822201%2C1032822202 : 5 August 2014), West Virginia > Hardy > ED 33 Capon district (east side) Wardensville town > image 11 of 26; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). 361 Wyatt, Ian D., and Daniel E. Hecker. “Occupational Changes during the 20th Century.” Monthly Labor Review 129, no. 3 (2006): 35–57. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41863049. 362 Ibid. 363 "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, Fami- lySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYBS-94FJ?cc=1968530&wc=9FHS- W38%3A928355001%2C928808901 : 24 August 2019), Virginia > Shenandoah County; A-Z > image 1563 of 89 drafted due to needing to care for his wife, Grace, and his then seven month old daughter, Esther. 364 Years later, World War II broke out and Perry was again required to register for the draft in 1942 at the age of 51 or 52. 365 Sometime prior to 1955, Grace had a heart attack which caused significant health problems. 366 As a result, Perry retired from farm- ing, and they moved to a new house along one of the main roads in Ed- inburg, U.S. Route 42. 367 Perry would care for his wife until her pass- ing in 1955. A few years later, Perry offered to sell the farm he had lived on to his grandson, Allen Lee Polk (1937-2004). Allen was unable to buy it at the time due to the recent birth of his son, Kevin Lee Polk (1959- ). 368 Instead, Perry sold the farm to a woman whose last name was Aroches. 369 In the 1970s, Allen bought the farm from the woman who originally bought it. 370 The family thereafter nicknamed the farm “Aroches after the woman who had bought it from Perry, and as of April 2022 it was run by Perry’s great-grandson Kevin and Kevin’s son, Mat- Download 0.91 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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