John,
I reached out to a friend at the Historical Society about the two Catholic churches. He’s our “tech” guy and has over 10,000 pictures on his computer at home and at the Society of Lisbon, gravestone. He’s helped me with so many questions I’ve had, technology shortcuts, etc. He’s my go-to person there. He isn’t on Ancestry but has a wealth of information about computers.
Anyway, he thinks Catholics married other Catholics and Slovaks. They were all Catholic. They would go to the wife’s or husband’s church depending on the dominant spouse. Originally there was only one Catholic church in town, Holy Trinity which is the church Jack’s family attended. All Slovaks attended that church.
Eventually, another Catholic church was built. I don’t know how it was determined or decided who attended the new church but they were all Catholic. Families were buried in either cemetery depending on the dominant spouse. But we can’t forget some Catholics/Slovaks are buried in Hillside which is mostly Protestant. Possibly the dominant spouse was Protestant????
As far as we know, that’s the story, the whole story and nothing but the story.
Beth