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Subject: South fork church
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:34:30 EDT
Hi Ray:
go to the Catawba webwsite, and click on surnames and then Bolch/Bolich and
there is some of the history on this page. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawb/
Betty Heryford
Original Message -----
From: "Ray H. Smith" <>
To: "Anne McAllister" <>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CATAWBA-WEST] South Fork Church?
> Thank you for your prompt and informative response.
>
> My wife has an ancestor Sebastain BOLCH who was married by Pastor
Arends
> at the South Fork Church in 1776. His plantation was on Lyle's Creek which
> would make it more convenient to go to St. John's Lutheran Church.
>
> Thus far I have not been able to find his burial site which I cannot
> locate in St. John's Cemetery. St John's has burned at least twice over
the
> years and the Church Office tells me that on site records do not go back
any
> further than perhaps 1859.
>
> The Germanic People kept precise records. Do you suppose that there
> could be Pastorial Diary's or records of funerals at St. John's at the
> Lutheran Synod Archives in Salisbury?
>
> You have been nice enough as is so will not trouble you with further
> questions.
>
>
> Ray Smith
>
>
>
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