Family History – Polk County Historical Society

Lowery Heritage in Polk County

February 4, 2023

Early Lowery history places the family in the Lime Branch community and were founders of the Lime Branch Methodist Church. The following article is printed in the Polk County Heritage (2000) book: Wesley and Julia Lowery were strong believers in self worth and spent their lifetimes devoted to faith, family, community service and in improving […]

Checking Up on the Joneses

April 5, 2022

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| Family History, Rockmart, Virtual Tour

Article by Leonora Ferguson Mintz, 1998 For Seaborn Jones Memorial Week I am checking up on the Joneses, not trying to keep up with them. When I was a child, I heard, and later read, stories of George Washington, Daniel Boone, Ben Franklin, and other national heroes, but I honestly believe, as I think back, […]

Bruner, Russell, Roberts

January 3, 2021

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My great-grandfather, John Ephraim Roberts, was born in 1848 in North Carolina. After serving in the War, in 1872 he married Ella Eliza Lowther, from Dublin, GA. Moving to Polk County, they farmed and raised a family out at Collard Valley. He died in 1889, leaving his widow with four children, expecting the fifth. Their […]