Evening star., 1932-04-03

Church. at which time Rev. Samuel Ffnckel was
pastor.
THERE seems to be some question about the
! early cemeteries in this negflborhood Will
liam w Birch who lived to be than 90
years old and who was reared in the first
ward in speaking of the Six Buildings also
made reference to some old cemeteries not far
away. He said:
"On the opposite side of the Avenue, north
ward stand what have always been known
the Six Buildings that number of houses foIm-
ing the block. These large three-story and
deep-cellar dwellings were erected about 1909
and have had many noted occupants. While
lived opposite, between 1903 and 1872, Rich
ard Rush tenant in the Westermost one
of the row. He was then a member Of the
Presidents cabinet. Preceding MIR. Rush. Mr..
Pollock wealthy Jew. occupied this house.
He died there and was buried in reservation 4.
Observatory Hill Some years ago an article
appeared in The Evening Star in which alusion
was made to this old burial ground and it
was said that there were memorials there;
this was an error, there was large headstone
to Mr. Pollock's grave and several smaller ones
erected over ether persons inferred there. /
have a perfectly clear recollection of this.
The location of this ground was very neac
the northeast corner of the reservation,
Twenty-thrd and E streets.
There was another place of sspulture in the
vicinity northeast of the intersection of and
Twenty-thrd streets. It was used exclusively
for colored persons and was called the 'Cedars
because quite a number of specimens of that
tree grew on the place and they were of con-
siderable size. I am enabled to recall this
place because there was buried there a coach
man of Lincoln Lear, son of Col. Tobias Lear,
Gen Washington's private secretary. Arthur,
the coachman had hanging up in the stable
large lions skin, tanned in Algiers. with the
skin of the head and the teeth preserved. This,
to the youngsters of the neighborhood. was
thing of great attraction, and together with
the ceaohmans many miraculous stories. drew
the boys to the stable frequently and made OF
Arthur sort of hero When he was buried
in. the Cedar Grove many of the youngsters
were present
In, connection with Mr. Pollock recall his
priest. the late Raphael Jones. who. while Of
fic;ating for Pollock, married young woman.
then inmate of my homs seamstress. 1t
was not generally known. but Mr. Jones was
a man OF considerable learning. He was Ger
man born, spoke and wrote Hebrew and was
acquainted with other languages. After his
marriage he become a travelling salesman and
later entered into the grocery business in
Georgetown, southeast corner of Bridge and
Potomac streets. accumulated fortune there
and moved to Washington, where hs established
himself in the dry goods trade at what is now
Kann Sons & Co.'S, corner of Eighth street
and Market space, at the same time having
grocery store the esst side of Seventh street
one doer south of d street.
Mt one time all this 4and belonged to Jacob
v Funk, who laid out a town here in It'll,
called Hamburg, and which. extended, ap-
proximately, from Nineteenth to Twenty-sixth
streets and from the river to about midway
between G and H streets. The streets running
nearly east and west he named High, Arch,
Market, Persimmon, Walnut, Locust and Null
berry. and S:loSe ahsut north and south ne
designated Water Front, Alley and Second
Third, Fourth and Fifth streets It was Mr.
Funk who set aside sites for the church prop
erty. find by bill in equity filed in
1880. mentioned in The Star of September Il
OF that year, which states:
''* 1t is claimed that Jacob Funk who
before the settlement of the city, owned a
farm in the lower part Of the first wafd. set
apart the lets at the corner of Twenty-second
and @ and Twentieth and G streets for church
purposes. the first for Calvinst society and
the other for a Lutheran society. and it sp-
pears that June 49, 1913. these lots were
claimed by d. ReinZ.f for the societies. For
many years thereafter there were regular
German churches here but after the erection
of the City Hall a. small congregation of about
dcSen femiiies worsfiped in the alderman's
chamber. In this number were the late Andrew
Noerr, F. Stenger and Christian Eeklof. Short
1y after 1880 the Concordia Church was built
at Twentieth and G. streets. and the trustees
against whom suit is brought took possession
Of the Twenty second street lot with the under
standing. that il CalVinist society should be
formed within 10 years they would relinquish
possession. No such society formed within
that period but subsequently other German
churches were formed one of which some
years ago filed bill to obtain possession of