Grave of Rev Joseph Pollard & Family

Booth Independent Church

In memory of the Rev Joseph Pollard who was minister at this place twenty three years and died in the faith and hope of a blessed immortality on the 27th Octr 1825 in the 59th year of his age     "Wise to win souls he labour'd with success for God his master did his labours bless why should a tender widow sigh or grieve let my departure teach her how to live or why should friends lament or children cry to God's decree all flesh is born to die therefore death called for me pray weep no more I am not lost I'm only gone before"     Also MARTHA his wife who died April 1st 1840 aged 71 years     "Through faith she willingly resigned her earthly tenement to dust in Joyful hope to find a resurrection with the just"