Researching these surnames; Baker;
Shaw/Oldham; Denby/McMaster; Pollack/Skeen; Jones/Miller; Skidmore/Mossberger; McDaniel/Otts; Dawson/Morrison.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Tombstone Tuesday - Cave Springs Memorial Church Cemetery


I have a bunch of family buried here.....

Cave Springs Memorial Church Cemetery also known as 
Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church

Listed as a Greene County Missouri Historic 
SiteCounty registration date: Nov. 2, 1981
The Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, now Cave Springs Community Church and Cemetery, has important connections to the early history of Greene County. Built in 1867, the building marks the site of an earlier log chapel and still earlier brush arbor, where one of the earliest churches in Greene County was organized in October of 1839. The present large two-story white frame structure with a bell tower had long served as a church, a school, and a community meeting place. It is the oldest Presbyterian Church west of the Mississippi.


See that mess of foliage and the surrounding stones? That's where most of them are buried. 

My ancestors buried there (the red are direct line, the burgundy are direct line with links);
Joseph Pollack - b. Oct. 30, 1842 d. Dec. 13, 1905 Adele’s father
Bettie (Martha Elizabeth Skeen) Pollack - b. Oct. 11, 1845 d. Sep. 24, 1923 Adele’s mother

Children of Bettie and Joseph (eight of their eleven known children) ;
Gay (Gabriel) Pollack m - b. Mar. 25, 1867 d. Jan. 23, 1888 
Joseph Pollack  - b. Oct. 17, 1872 d. Oct. 25, 1875
Calvin J Pollack  - b. Sep. 6, 1874 d. Feb. 1, 1955
    Nellie E Darraugh Pollack - b. Nov. 26, 1876 d. Oct. 26, 1936 Calvin J Pollack’s wife
Marvin Pollack  - b. Apr. 22, 1879 d. Aug. 17, 1962
    Virginia Barrow Pollack - b. Sep. 25, 1882 d. Sep. 14, 1979 Marvin Pollack’s wife
        Carl Marvin Pollack - b. Oct. 24, 1916 d. Apr. 18, 1930 Marvin & Virginia’s son
        Roscoe Pollack - b. Nov. 2, 1902 d. Nov. 27, 1918 Marvin & Virginia’s son
Florence Pollack (infant)  - b. Mar. 26, 1880 d. Jul. 12, 1882
Carl Pollack (infant)  - b. Jul. 27, 1884 d. Mar. 18, 1885
Juanita Z McNew Pollack - b. 1879 d. 1921 Wife of Ransom Harris Pollack, his burial place unknown
Helen J Pollack Carden – b. Aug. 24, 1891 d. Jan 4. 1966
    George A. Carden – b. Jan. 31, 1888 d. May 2, 1972 Helen J Pollack’s husband

Hope H Skeen - b. Feb. 16, 1807 d. Aug. 4, 1875 Bettie’s father
Delinda Harris Skeen - b. Aug. 17, 1809 d. Aug. 1, 1882 Bettie’s mother

Bettie (Martha Elizabeth Skeen) Pollack’s sibling;
R. (Ransom) H. (Harris) Skeen - b. May 10, 1835 d. Dec. 4, 1917
    Louisa E McClure Skeen - b. Nov. 4, 1837 d. Sep. 5, 1871
        William H Skeen (infant) - b. Aug. 28, 1871 d. Aug. 28, 1871 
Mary L Ross Skeen - b. Oct. 17, 1842 d. May 30, 1915 Ransom’s 2nd wife

I'm still digging through the names of people buried there and I'm sure I will find more connections.

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