Mary "Polly Ann" KIRK12 November 1850 to 16 September 1886) Mary "Polly Sue" PATRICK18 March 1868 to 26 January 1942 Joshua was a half-blooded Cherokee; his mother Nancy Cope was Full Blooded.   Joshua's first wife Pollie Ann was also a half-blooded Cherokee.   Joshua's second wife Pollie Sue was given her name by Joshua.  She was a Full Blooded Cherokee; she had taken a white man's name of Mary Patrick.  Her parents never took a white man's name, they kept their Cherokee names.  Joshua changed Mary's name to Mary "Pollie Sue" Garrett when they married.  He called her Pollie, as he did his first wife.Mary Patrick's parents and grandparents escaped from the Tail of Tears as they were on the route. They were members of the "Paint" clan. They hid out in an area SW of McMinnville , Tennessee.   They later went along with many other Cherokee to the area of Putnam, Overton, and Clay counties.  Many Cherokee knew of this area because of "The Standing Stone"  at Monterey.They died when Mary was twelve; she was taken in by a family of Kirkpatrick’s in Clay County and raised by them. She took the name Mary Patrick; she only used part of the Kirkpatrick name. Pollie Sue was a mid-wife who delivered many children.  She was taught this skill by her mother and Grand Mother.  Joshua, he husband, was a "Medicine Man" that is why people called him "Dock".  She delivered almost all of my father's brothers and sisters, including my father. Her name appears on many birth certificates of people born in Overton/Clay County area.Joshua served in the Civil War on the side of the South. He was captured by some Union Soldiers.  They did not shoot him because he was an Indian, and not worth a bullet.  They hang him instead because he refused to sign the Indian Tready.  Having been left for dead, a Cherokee Indian who had been watching the whole thing,  cut him down and revived him by kicking him in the chest.This Story was told to me by my, Grandmother Bertha and my father Bobby Joe Arney,  who was helped raised by Pollie Sue.   He really loved her, and she did him because he was not afraid of her.  Many of the other children were scared of her,  because of her darker skin, and Indian looks.   They had seen to many western films.  He said, "She was really a great person!"Story by Bertha Claudine Melton Arney (Added by David Arney)