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Mrs. Elmira (Law) Polk

 18 May 1877 - 1 November 1965


Mrs. Joseph Polk, 88, Lived for Many Years in Stoneboro

Mrs. Joseph (Elmira) Polk, Stoneboro, died Monday morning in the Mercer County Hospital. She was 88.

A daughter of Charles and Martha Jane Southern Law, she was born in Franklin on May 18, 1877 and spent her lifetime in Franklin and Stoneboro.

She married Joseph Polk May 8, 1904, and he survives.

She was a member of the Snowden Chapel, A.M.E. Zion Church, of Franklin.

Surviving in addition to her husband are three sisters, Mrs. Martha Green, of Franklin; Mrs. Addis Ordaz, San Francisco, Calif., and Mrs. Lottie Smith, of St. Louis, Mo., and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by four brothers and four sisters.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:30 in the Waters Funeral Home, Stoneboro, with the Rev. William C. McDown, of Erie, officiating. Interment will be in the Colored Cemetery at Stoneboro. The family will receive friends at the funeral home this evening.

Source: The News-Herald, (Franklin, PA), 2 Nov 1965, Tue., pg. 2





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