Linda, Sorry, I thought that I was answering Audrey personally not the Effingham List.... Kate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kate B." <katekb@consolidated.net> To: <ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [ILEFFING-L] I FOUND IT> St. Paul's Lutheran Church Effingham, IL > Nope, that is not the church that we were talking about. That one was torn > down not to long ago and it was 4 blocks from the present St. John's > Lutheran Church. > > St. Paul's was only 2 blocks East from St. John's at that period of time it > was in the 900 block. That may be why there has been a confusion about just > where it was located at. > But I am still looking and hope to find more information about it. > Kate > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Audrey Garbe" <audrey@effingham.net> > To: <ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:29 AM > Subject: Re: [ILEFFING-L] I FOUND IT> St. Paul's Lutheran Church Effingham, > IL > > > > That's where I told you it was. Afterwards it was a Methodist church. > > Audrey > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kate B." <katekb@consolidated.net> > > To: <ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:59 PM > > Subject: [ILEFFING-L] I FOUND IT> St. Paul's Lutheran Church Effingham, IL > > > > > > > > > > > > > After reading the 50th Anniversary book, 1853-1903, Effingham, Illinois > > for the 5th time, (or more) I noticed that there is 2 pictures of > Lutheran > > Churches. Since I have lived here all my life, I have never heard of there > > being another one other than St. John's Lutheran Church that is on the S. > W. > > corner of Center [now West Jefferson] Avenue & Cherry Street. So when I > > found the picture in the 50th Anniversary of Effingham Illinois book, the > > picture of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, where was it located at? > > > > > > This is what I found out: > > > St Paul's Lutheran Church was located in the 900 block of Shelby Avenue > > [now 700 block] on the south side of the block. It must of taken up the > > whole block where houses are now. > > > > > > What I have not found out yet though is what happened to it? Was it like > > the 2 catholic churches here? > > > > > > In the 1900 city directory it says that St, John Lutheran church was > > German speaking and St. Paul's Lutheran Church was English speaking. That > is > > how St. Anthony's Catholic church was, German speaking and Scared Heart, > > English speaking. > > > > > > So if anyone knows anymore about St. Paul's Lutheran Church, please let > me > > know. > > > > > > Kate Keller Bourland > > > > > > > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > > > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send > e-mail > > to ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > > > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe > or > > > unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail > to ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or > > unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail to ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or > unsubscribe in the message body. >