There was a Reverend Wilhelm Staerkel, pastor in Eckheim from 1869-1877. It looks as if he moved to the parish in Norka: the record I have shows Wilhelm Staerkel was pastor in Norka from 1876 - 1908. Yet Eisenach, in his book on Pietism among the Russian Germans in the U.S., says in 1871 Staerkel was the pastor in Norka. Is this the same Wilhelm Staerkel? Did Eisenach make a misstatement?   Bill Pickelhaupt