HOLY CROSS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN This church is in East Davenport on Belle avenue.  It was organized April 6, 1902, with three members:  Otto C. Westphal, the pastor, Charles Poppe, and the present pastor, H. P. Greif.  The first services were held in the chapel on Spring street and continued there for about six months.  The congregation then removed to a vacant store room on Eddy street, where services were held three months, and the following four months meetings were held in the third story of the Eash Davenport Turner hall.  At this time there were about twenty members.  For the following six months there were no services, but during that time a new building was in course of erection on Belle avenue, and on April 6, 1902, the congregation occupied the new structure and listened to a dedicatory sermon which was preached by the visiting elder, Rev. A. D. Greif, the father of the present pastor.  The building was of frame and with the lot the property cost $2,400.  The membership consists of 128 persons, and in the Sunday school there are eighty-five children.  The church is absolutely free of debt. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L