----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemary Bozovich" <roz1@poweruser.com> To: <LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 6:41 PM Subject: [LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L] 1846 Marriage Record > > Hello List, > > > > I have obtained a copy of the marriage record of my gr gr > > grandparents from the Recorder of Deeds in St. Louis, MO. It > > states that a "F. Pioker, Pastor" united them in marriage > > according to the laws of the state of Missouri and the usages > of > > the Evangelic Protestant Church of St. Louis, MO. This was in > > June of 1846. I know that my gr gr grandfather was later a > > member of a Lutheran Church in Illinois. Can someone steer me > in > > the right direction for finding out which church this Pastor > > Pioker (sp?) might have been affiliated with? Thanks! Greetings Rosemary, From similiar information on a marriage in 1860, I was able to determine the church and found the record by using the St. Louis city directory for 1860. The directories frequently listed the pastor as well as sexton and even the beginning of the church and the size, at least in several which I have used. I copied the page with the Evangelical churches from the 1860 but there is not a Pastor Pioker, the closest is Rev. Toby Pioster. He was pastor of the Independent Evangelical Protestant Church, located on the south-west corner of Mound and Eighth streets, erected 1856. The LDS has a large number of microfilmed [or on fiche] city directories for St. Louis available for usage at your local Mormon church. You could check their online catalog at http://www.familysearch.org Look under St. Louis city [not county] and Churches. The only ones which look old enough are St. Mark's and St. Peter's, maybe St. Paul's, but some don't have dates, but those seem to refer to the building anyway and not the congregation . The books of the two churches in which I was interested were both available on film through the LDS. There are also two mailing list through Rootsweb for St. Louis with very helpful subscribers: StLouis-MO-L MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L I hope that you will be able to find the church. Karen Grossart at Grossart@MCS.net