Profiles from a tour of the Old Baptist Church Cemetery In Monroe, Georgia

Conducted, Written and provided courtesy Nowell Briscoe ( [email protected] )

 DANIEL MARSHALL POLLOCK

Following in the Pollock lineage is the son of Eva Selman and Pickney Daniel Pollock, No. 5 on our list, Daniel Marshall Pollock.  Marshall or “Polly” as he was known to his friends and neighbors was born on November 24 1901 in Macon, Georgia during his father’s presidency at Mercer. His birth date is the same date as the marriage of his parents six years earlier.  During his father’s tenure at Mercer, the family lived in quarters in the Administration Building.  Following the death of his father, he and his mother returned to Monroe to the family plantation where he grew up and attended the Monroe schools.  He attended the Citadel in Charleston, SC and graduated from the University of Georgia with a law degree in 1923. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and for many years was moderator of the Appalachee Association, a post previously held by his grandfather, George C. Selman.

        A former mayor of Monroe, Marshall Pollock practiced law in Monroe and from 1942 until 1964 he was the solicitor general of the Western Judicial Circuit.  He was one of the founders of the Walton Electric Membership Corporation, serving as its president.  He also was head of the Georgia Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives as well as being one of the original members of the board of directors of the Monroe Golf and Country Club.

        Marshall Pollock’s death on October 24, 1970 at the age of 68 removed from our community a person who was loved and held in high esteem by all who knew him as a relative, friend or lawyer. I have fond memories of “Polly” and Flonnie as close friends of my parents in the early days on Walton Street and the good times they shared over a meal or social gathering.