Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Carter

Abt 1809 - 1849  (40 years)

• Name	Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Carter  [1, 2]
  Nickname	Polly
  Birth	Abt 1809	Jackson County, Georgia   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1849
  Person ID	I694	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	William Carter,   b. Abt 1756, Edgecombe County, North Carolina d. Abt 1814, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Mary (Molly\Polly) Cotton Strickland,   b. 1 Jul 1767, Nash County, North Carolina d. Aft 1820, Pike County, Mississippi (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1790	Amite County, Mississippi
  Family ID	F110	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Noah Strickland,   b. Abt 1801, North Carolina d. 1864 (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	1825  [5]
  	Virgie Speights writes that after Noah arrived in Louisiana, he "went to work for a Mr. Carter, whose daughter, Betty, he later married. They came on the Sabine County, where she was known as "Polly."
  Children	1. Nancy Strickland,   b. 1826, Mississippi d. Yes, date unknown   2. David Strickland,   b. Abt 1831, Mississippi d. Yes, date unknown   3. Mary Strickland,   b. Abt 1832, Louisiana d. Yes, date unknown   4. Redmond Strickland,   b. Abt 1835, Mississippi d. Yes, date unknown   5. John H. Strickland,   b. 11 Aug 1840, Louisiana d. May 1898 (Age 57 years)   6. William Strickland,   b. Abt 1842, Louisiana d. Aft 1910 (Age 69 years)   7. James Kavanaugh Strickland,   b. 1842, Louisiana d. Yes, date unknown   8. Elizabeth Strickland,   b. 3 Apr 1845, Louisiana d. Yes, date unknown   9. Martha Jane Strickland,   b. 3 Apr 1845, Sabine Parish, Louisiana d. 16 Sep 1919, Sabine County, Texas (Age 74 years)   10. Eunice "Unie" Caroline Strickland,   b. 3 Jun 1847, Louisiana d. 16 Jun 1952, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas (Age 105 years)   11. Matthew Noah Strickland,   b. 31 Oct 1849, East Pendleton, Sabine Parish, Louisiana d. 4 Dec 1932, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F528	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2012

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1809 - Jackson County, Georgia  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972, p 41, 59 (Reliability: 3). [S416] Casagranda, Kathy "Sabine Parish The 1850 Census with added Family Information" (May, 1999: P.O. Box 2195, Palmer, Alaska 99645), p 84 (Reliability: 3). [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972, p 59 (Reliability: 3). [S352] Schluter, Helen Gomer "1860 Census of Sabine County Texas with Civil War Records". [S374] Speights, Virgie "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas Vignettes of Pioneer Families" (S. Malone, c. 1983), p. 73 (Reliability: 3).