Poll (parrot)

According to an unauthenticated anecdote, Poll had to be removed from Jackson's funeral in 1845 after causing a disturbance by shouting profanities.

Poll, nicknamed Polly,[1] was purchased by Andrew Jackson for his wife Rachel for $25 in 1827 (equivalent to $673 in 2023), a year before her death.

[4][5] Reverend William Menefee Norment, who was there, recollected that Poll "got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house".

[6][7] Professor of History Dan Feller at the University of Tennessee said that the story is "uncontroverted but also unauthenticated".

[6][2] It is the only known eyewitness account, and partly accredited to Norment's daughter Fannie who wrote it in a letter on his behalf.