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From: "Georgia" <>
Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] Lutheran Church Records?
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:09:38 -0500
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I believe old church records are housed at Oberlin college in OH. Won't
swear to this but it is what I remember. Georgia

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In a message dated 2/25/2012 12:45:01 Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

I'm not sure if they are. I think it is in Greenville or Zelinople. I
think any Lutheran minister would know that answer, if they are of the
right
division of Lutherans. My uncle is deceased so I can't talk to him about
it.


I remember seeing a drawing of a Lutheran church building on the cover of a
book. I think Clawson's book of Joiners. I had a copy at one time. I
believe it existed before my Johannes Conrad Mohr family arrived in
Westmoreland Co. in ca. 1838.
Then my great uncle Ben Mo(o)re was married by a Lutheran minister in 1851
or so.
His marriage to Catherine Albert was listed.
>From my notes:
_Brush Creek Lutheran Church Westmoreland County, Penna., Marriages 1820
to 1865_. Compiled by Fort Hand DAR, 1935. "Record of Marriages of Jonas
Mechling." Jonas Mechling was the Evangelical Lutheran Minister of the
Gospel, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., PA. Catherine was from Mount.
Pleasant.

So Lutheran records do exist but where and in what condition I can't say.

But let's face it, sometimes the records were no more than notes in a
circuit preacher's pockets.
Shirley Maynard
Hampton, VA

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