THE POLSON-CHENEY FAMILY

        Husband: Cyrus Polson
           Born: 1800 in Virginia
        Married: 25 APR 1825 in Harrison County, Indiana
           Died: 1881 in Clatskanie, Columbia CO, Oregon
         Father: John Polson
         Mother: Martha Bryan
        Spouses: 
           Wife: Faraba "Ferby" Collins
           Born: 1807 in Kentucky (1)
           Died: before 1865 in Knox Co, Indiana
         Father: 
         Mother: 
        Spouses:
Children
01          (M): Jacob Polson
           Born: 10 FEB 1832 in Indiana (2)
           Died: 12 FEB 1881 in Pennsylvania
        Spouses: Maria Jenkins
02          (F): Rebecca Polson
           Born: 1833
           Died:
        Spouses: 
03          (F): Margaret J. Polson
           Born: 1836
           Died:
        Spouses: 
04          (F): Josephine Polson
           Born: 1842
           Died:
        Spouses: 
05          (M): Henry Polson
           Born:
           Died:
        Spouses:

Additional Information

Cyrus Polson:

Notes:
Cyrus spent about twenty years as a steamboat pilot. He then began farming on the bottom land on the west fork of the White River in Indiana. Around 1865, he sold his land in Indiana and moved to Oregon. He lived near Portland. In 1860, he was living with his daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Omar Bryant, in Clatskanie, Columbia County, Oregon.

Footnotes

  1. Walter Anderson.
  2. Ibid.

Home | Surnames | Index

Revised: August 13, 2005
Copyright © 2005 Lisa Sorensen. All rights reserved.