St. Mary's Church Obelisk - Mashek, MO
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YoSam.
N 39° 00.278 W 091° 04.579
15S E 666570 N 4319051
Tombstone obelisk marks the existence of the Catholic Church which founded this cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMW7H8
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/20/2017
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County of marker: Lincoln County
Location of marker: Mashek Rd. (CR-597) & Bohemian Church Rd (MO-AA), St. Mary's Cemetery, Mashek
Monument Text: Top to Bottom:
[photo of old church]
MASHEK CHURCH
1919
[photo of priest and two men]
1st server 1st pastor 1st server
PETIE FATHER FRANK
PETERSON &emp; SVEHLE MARTINEK
Both Pictures
IN LOVING MEMORY
of
FRANK and VINA
MARTINEK
ST, MARY'S CHURCH
MASHEK, MO.
1848-1964
BOHEMAN PARISH
As I understand it St. Mary's Catholic Church moved to Haw Point around 1935...the church in Mashek stayed active until 1964.
"A bank was soon started in the new town. The Baptist and Christian Churches moved from their rural location into town in 1904. The Catholic Church would follow later.
"Because a handful of Central European immigrants staked out their futures in the rolling, timbered country northwest of Troy in 1848, Hawk Point has never been your typical Anglo-Saxon-German Midwestern farming town. Rather it has a different style and flavor.
"Now only the Catholic cemetery remains to remind the present generation of life there long ago. But the picturesque countryside north of Highway 47 still is known as the Bohemian settlement; some descendants of the early residents still live there and the Old World quaintness has not been totally lost.
"The three churches that serve Hawk Point today -- Community, Baptist and Catholic -- all have roots reaching into the outlying region and dating well before townhood." ~ City of Hawk Point History