Lt Gen Leonidas Polk
American
Lineage
- Father Col William Polk
- Mother Sally Hawkins Polk
- Brother: George Washington Polk
- Brother: Lucius Junius Polk
- Brother: Col Thomas Polk
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Architect | St John's Episcopal Church, Ashwood | Mount Pleasant, TN | |||||
| 1830/05/06 | Frances Ann Devereux marries Leonidas Polk. | Groom | Marriage of Frances Ann Devereux and Leonidas Polk | ||||
| 1856/00/00 | Original St Mary's Episcopal Church is consecrated 1856 by Rt Rev Leonidas Polk, destroyed by fire 1870 | Vocation | St Mary's Episcopal Church | Franklin | |||
| 1857/07/04 | Bishop Leonidas Polk leads delegates from ten Southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States up Monteagle Mountain to established a denominational college for the region. | Vocation | Sewanee: University of the South | Sewanee, TN | |||
| 1858/06/09 | Bishop Leonidas K Polk, first Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana, lays the cornerstone of a new Grace Church near the place where the first church building stood. | Vocation | Grace Episcopal Church | St Francisville | |||
| 1864/00/00 | General Leonidas Polk lodges at Gaineswood and his troops camp in Demopolis | Union Commander | Gaineswood | Demopolis | |||
| 1864/05/00 | The one-legged John Bell Hood, unable to kneel, leans on his crutches in the dim candlelight, and is baptized in the Episcopal Church by General Leonidas Polk. | Vocation |
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