I wanted to pass this information along to others who have German immigrant ancestors in Orange (now Guilford) County, NC. Be sure you visit the website below for the early history of Frieden's church (and the Paletines arriving from Germany > PA > NC). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peggy or Tom Bruckner" <bruckner@mindspring.com> To: <NC-FRIEDENSCHURCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 6:51 AM Subject: [NC-FRIEDENSCHURCH] Stahakers Church, or Sshaakers Church -- often called as if spelled Shoemakers Church, the modern pronunciation > As mentioned in an earlier post, Miss Sallie W. Stockard states in her 1902 > book on the HISTORY OF GUILFORD COUNTY that Frieden's Church was first known > as Stahamakers Church. Mis Stockard gives no reference to the source of > this information. > > Apparently Stahakers preceded the use of Shoemakers, this according to Miss > Lalah G. Apple, a former Friedens member and historian, who wrote the > information in TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS HISTORY OF FREIDENS LUTHERAN > CHURCH 1745-1970, celebrating the 225 Anniversary of Friedens in 1970 (see > last paragraph, bottom of page 7): > > "The Quakers organized at Center in 1753; New Garden 1754; Deep River 1758, > and Snow Camp and Cane Creek even sooner. The Reformed people came along > with the Lutherans, and in many cases joined them in union houses of worship > as at Beaver Creek from which sprang both Lows Lutheran and Brick Reformed > churches. In these earlier days the church houses were generally built by > the united effgrts of both the Lutherans and the Reformed people. Such was > the case with what we now know as Friedens Church. It was a union church and > was organized about the same time as Brick Church, which is located six > mile:, south of Gibsonville, and it is not improbable that both churches > were organized by the same minister. It was first known as "Stahakers > Church," or "Sshaakers Church" and older people will recall that it was > often called as if spelled "Shoemakers Church"; this coming as the modern > pronunciation. " > > To read more about the early history of Friedens go here: > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bruckner/earlysettlers.htm > > Also, note that the 1800-1853 Kootz Translation mentions SHOEMAKER's Church > four times -- in these time frames: 1836 (page 115); 1843 (page 119), 1849 > (page 120) and 1851 (page 129), so it would appear that Friedens was > commonly called Shoemakers during this period; however, the name FRIEDENS, > written in German, appears much earlier...1804, page 125. > > Does anyone know HOW the Stahmaker name originated? > > Peggy > > > > > ==== NC-FRIEDENSCHURCH Mailing List ==== > Visit the Friedens Church Family History and Genealogy Research Page: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bruckner/friedens.htm > > ============================== > Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: > Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/ >