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Joseph Benjamin Polley
Full Name: Joseph Benjamin Polley
Date of birth: October 27, 1840
Date of death: February 2, 1918
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Terms of Service top
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Dates of Service |
Legislatures |
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78
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Jan 14, 1879 - Jan 11, 1881
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16th
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Democrat
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Floresville / Wilson
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Atascosa, Karnes, Live Oak, San Patricio, Wilson
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Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1.
Galveston Daily News.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Joseph Benjamin Polley, birth date 10/27/1840, death date 2/2/1918, biographical sketch, portrait, interment in Floresville City Cemetery, Floresville, Wilson County.
Find a Grave.
POLLEY, JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1840-1918).
Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, p. 272.
Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.
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Confederate States Army, Q.M. Sergeant, Company F, 4th Texas Infantry. Military grave marker, Joseph B. Polley.
Find a Grave.
J.B. Polley's memoir of Confederate Army service.
Hood's Texas Brigade: Its Marches, Its Battles, Its Achievements, 1910.
Biographical sketch, Joseph B. Polley, p. 222.
Texans Who Wore the Gray, 1907.
Confederate States Army, Regional Quartermaster, Company F, 4th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade. Joseph Benjamin Polley.
Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.
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