Daughter of John Hackley & Margaret Peggy Shelton Norton. Year of birth has also been seen as 1835.
First husband was Lewis Shelton. He was a Union soldier and died during the Civil War. At one point during his absence from home, Confederate soldiers or mercenaries showed up at their home looking for Lewis. They tied her to a tree in the yard during a freezing cold day while her baby was left in the house crying. She did not know where her husband was and they eventually had to let her go. She filed for a widow's war pension on May 16, 1866 and this card states he was in Co. D, 77th PA Inf. A minor's pension was filed on June 8, 1868.
Both Polly and her husband Lewis were related to the 13 men and boys killed in the Shelton Laurel massacre of January 1863. She and other women helped rebury the bodies after the Confederate soldiers dumped all in a poorly dug common grave.
Second husband was James Wilson Lewis, whom she married on March 24, 1867 in Madison County, NC. He died two days before she did, of pneumonia.
James and Polly had the following children together:
Mary Jane Lewis (m. Martin Pack)
Adaline Lewis (m. Nathan Cutshall)
Sarah Delane Lewis (m. Isom Fender)
Nicholas Marion Lewis (m. Georgianna Sprinkle)
Harriett Salina Lewis (m. John Alexander Bradley)
Lewis family information book states she is buried with her husband James in Foster Creek Cemetery. His death certificate stated his burial was in Foster Creek as well; her death index has been located but not her actual certificate as of yet. Another Find A Grave contributor notified me that he located and photographed their graves in Fender's Family Cemetery (Fender Cemetery), so this memorial was moved to that location on 11-6-14 (no other entry existed for her there at the time so the move was appropriate).
First husband was Lewis Shelton. He was a Union soldier and died during the Civil War. At one point during his absence from home, Confederate soldiers or mercenaries showed up at their home looking for Lewis. They tied her to a tree in the yard during a freezing cold day while her baby was left in the house crying. She did not know where her husband was and they eventually had to let her go. She filed for a widow's war pension on May 16, 1866 and this card states he was in Co. D, 77th PA Inf. A minor's pension was filed on June 8, 1868.
Both Polly and her husband Lewis were related to the 13 men and boys killed in the Shelton Laurel massacre of January 1863. She and other women helped rebury the bodies after the Confederate soldiers dumped all in a poorly dug common grave.
Second husband was James Wilson Lewis, whom she married on March 24, 1867 in Madison County, NC. He died two days before she did, of pneumonia.
James and Polly had the following children together:
Mary Jane Lewis (m. Martin Pack)
Adaline Lewis (m. Nathan Cutshall)
Sarah Delane Lewis (m. Isom Fender)
Nicholas Marion Lewis (m. Georgianna Sprinkle)
Harriett Salina Lewis (m. John Alexander Bradley)
Lewis family information book states she is buried with her husband James in Foster Creek Cemetery. His death certificate stated his burial was in Foster Creek as well; her death index has been located but not her actual certificate as of yet. Another Find A Grave contributor notified me that he located and photographed their graves in Fender's Family Cemetery (Fender Cemetery), so this memorial was moved to that location on 11-6-14 (no other entry existed for her there at the time so the move was appropriate).
Daughter of John Hackley & Margaret Peggy Shelton Norton. Year of birth has also been seen as 1835.
First husband was Lewis Shelton. He was a Union soldier and died during the Civil War. At one point during his absence from home, Confederate soldiers or mercenaries showed up at their home looking for Lewis. They tied her to a tree in the yard during a freezing cold day while her baby was left in the house crying. She did not know where her husband was and they eventually had to let her go. She filed for a widow's war pension on May 16, 1866 and this card states he was in Co. D, 77th PA Inf. A minor's pension was filed on June 8, 1868.
Both Polly and her husband Lewis were related to the 13 men and boys killed in the Shelton Laurel massacre of January 1863. She and other women helped rebury the bodies after the Confederate soldiers dumped all in a poorly dug common grave.
Second husband was James Wilson Lewis, whom she married on March 24, 1867 in Madison County, NC. He died two days before she did, of pneumonia.
James and Polly had the following children together:
Mary Jane Lewis (m. Martin Pack)
Adaline Lewis (m. Nathan Cutshall)
Sarah Delane Lewis (m. Isom Fender)
Nicholas Marion Lewis (m. Georgianna Sprinkle)
Harriett Salina Lewis (m. John Alexander Bradley)
Lewis family information book states she is buried with her husband James in Foster Creek Cemetery. His death certificate stated his burial was in Foster Creek as well; her death index has been located but not her actual certificate as of yet. Another Find A Grave contributor notified me that he located and photographed their graves in Fender's Family Cemetery (Fender Cemetery), so this memorial was moved to that location on 11-6-14 (no other entry existed for her there at the time so the move was appropriate).
First husband was Lewis Shelton. He was a Union soldier and died during the Civil War. At one point during his absence from home, Confederate soldiers or mercenaries showed up at their home looking for Lewis. They tied her to a tree in the yard during a freezing cold day while her baby was left in the house crying. She did not know where her husband was and they eventually had to let her go. She filed for a widow's war pension on May 16, 1866 and this card states he was in Co. D, 77th PA Inf. A minor's pension was filed on June 8, 1868.
Both Polly and her husband Lewis were related to the 13 men and boys killed in the Shelton Laurel massacre of January 1863. She and other women helped rebury the bodies after the Confederate soldiers dumped all in a poorly dug common grave.
Second husband was James Wilson Lewis, whom she married on March 24, 1867 in Madison County, NC. He died two days before she did, of pneumonia.
James and Polly had the following children together:
Mary Jane Lewis (m. Martin Pack)
Adaline Lewis (m. Nathan Cutshall)
Sarah Delane Lewis (m. Isom Fender)
Nicholas Marion Lewis (m. Georgianna Sprinkle)
Harriett Salina Lewis (m. John Alexander Bradley)
Lewis family information book states she is buried with her husband James in Foster Creek Cemetery. His death certificate stated his burial was in Foster Creek as well; her death index has been located but not her actual certificate as of yet. Another Find A Grave contributor notified me that he located and photographed their graves in Fender's Family Cemetery (Fender Cemetery), so this memorial was moved to that location on 11-6-14 (no other entry existed for her there at the time so the move was appropriate).
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