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Mary <I>Jackson</I> Pollock

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Mary Jackson Pollock

Birth
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
18 May 1882 (aged 90)
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Warren County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Mary Jackson (fourth child of Robert and Elizabeth) was born in Westmoreland county Pennsyvania February 9th, 1792, and was first married, January 1st 1810 to Joseph Caldwell, farmer, who came from Tyrone county, Ireland. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States, December 1820. They lived for a time between Smithfield and Cadiz Harrison county, Ohio, where they connected with the Associat church. Here four sons were born and were baptized by Rev. John Walker, then pastor of the church. They removed to Athens county, Ohio, where his mother and four brothers lived. He died October, 1822, aged thirty-two years, and was buried in a Methodist graveyard near the Meigs county line. She immediately after the loss of her husband, removed to Clark’s Runt, Greene county Ohio, to her father’s house, and connected with the Associate Reformed congregation of Xenia, in which her father was a ruling elder, and had her two youngest children baptized. Her father stood up with her and Rev Joh Steele administered the sacrament..

Mary Jackson Caldwell was married a second time, February 10th 1824, to John Pollock, a farmer near Cedarville, Ohio. He was a member of the Associate Church. In 1836 they removed to Warren county, Illinois, where he died March 26th, aged eighty-two years. She died at her daughter, Mary Jane Nichol’s, Mt. Ayr, Iowa home, on May 18th, 1882 aged ninety years. They are buried side by side in Sugar Tree Grove Cemetery six miles north of Monmouth, Illinois They had seven children—making fifteen children for Mary Jackson.




Mary Jackson (fourth child of Robert and Elizabeth) was born in Westmoreland county Pennsyvania February 9th, 1792, and was first married, January 1st 1810 to Joseph Caldwell, farmer, who came from Tyrone county, Ireland. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States, December 1820. They lived for a time between Smithfield and Cadiz Harrison county, Ohio, where they connected with the Associat church. Here four sons were born and were baptized by Rev. John Walker, then pastor of the church. They removed to Athens county, Ohio, where his mother and four brothers lived. He died October, 1822, aged thirty-two years, and was buried in a Methodist graveyard near the Meigs county line. She immediately after the loss of her husband, removed to Clark’s Runt, Greene county Ohio, to her father’s house, and connected with the Associate Reformed congregation of Xenia, in which her father was a ruling elder, and had her two youngest children baptized. Her father stood up with her and Rev Joh Steele administered the sacrament..

Mary Jackson Caldwell was married a second time, February 10th 1824, to John Pollock, a farmer near Cedarville, Ohio. He was a member of the Associate Church. In 1836 they removed to Warren county, Illinois, where he died March 26th, aged eighty-two years. She died at her daughter, Mary Jane Nichol’s, Mt. Ayr, Iowa home, on May 18th, 1882 aged ninety years. They are buried side by side in Sugar Tree Grove Cemetery six miles north of Monmouth, Illinois They had seven children—making fifteen children for Mary Jackson.






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