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Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] RE: Mennonite marriages
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 09:11:46 EST


In a message dated 2/1/2003 3:16:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

> No, he wouldn't necessarily have had to have been baptized before
> marriage, it really depends on the person who married him. If I'm
> remembering correctly the regular (I can't remember his name) Lutheran
> minister at Trinity Lutheran wouldn't marry couples who were not members of
> his congregation or willing to become members (ie baptized).

That is interesting to know that he wouldn't necessarily have had to have
been baptized to marry in the Lutheran Church. The church in which my gg
grandparents were married in 1837 was the New Holland Trinity Evangelical
Lutheran. Do you know if they were connected in any way with the Trinity
Lutheran Church in Lancaster or if they had the same "policy"?

He was buried in the Bethesda Methodist Church in Martic township. In an
affidavit in his son's civil war pension file he said that his son was never
baptized. I also have a record of another son, my g grandfather, being
baptized 10 days before his wedding in 1868, so it seems that the anabaptist
roots remained. I am surprised that the Methodist Church accepted them as
members without the baptisms.

Cathi

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