Pollitt Cemetery is located in Liverpool Township in the southeast quarter of Section 1. If you are going in a southwesterly direction on Route 24 (past Rice Lake), turn right on Pollitt Road (2350E). You'll see the cemetery on your left in the middle of an old strip-mining area. There aren't many stones left and a few of the stones are unreadable. There are more Pollitts buried here that I couldn't find stones for. Other surnames that I couldn't find but are said to have been buried here are: Beckstead, Bedwell, Clark, Day, Fouts, Lamb, Landrith, McElwell, Rilea and Wheeler.

An African-American named Morgan Day was one of the few who helped bury the cholera victims of 1849, including his wife and three children. Mr. Day [probably the son of Austin Day...Roy Girard] sold his farm in 1850 for 6 cents an acre to James H. Pollitt and subsequently went to live with George Parker. Mr. Day was later buried with his wife and children, along the outside of the fence row of this cemetery. When the strip mining company came to Fulton County, the company wanted to move the cemetery, but the Pollitts acquired enough signatures on their petition to stop the move. Unfortunately, the strip mining company did manage to remove or dig up the Day family. Refer to Vol. 5 of the cemetery books compiled by the FCGS. Additional information was supplied by Roy Girard and Shirley Slover.

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