Samuel MATEER about circa 1890, in Columbus, Ohio, was said by his 99 year-old-grandson, Ivan LAUBE, to have built a church near where he lived at 618 Pennsylvania Avenue. Soon after the church was completed he put an organ on a wagon and delivered it to the church. His several daughters played the organ for church services. (I suppose that meant Samuel assisted in some important way in the building of the church - he was a railroad stationary engineer, and could very likely have aided in the construction - even though he was 64 years-old.) That story was told to me more than ten-years ago. I included it in my notes and it has survived several changes in computers and changes in the way I keep my notes. Today, while reviewing these old files for MATEER family records for an e-mail friend I came upon this forgotten tidbit. Today things are different than they were ten-years ago. For one, the Franklin County rootsweb must have ten or a hundred times more listers than in say 1990. For another I now know that Samuel H. MATEER was Born: December 13, 1826 in East Pennsborough Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Died: January 16, 1918 in Logan, Ohio. (He was known as Mater in Pennsylvania and he signed his name that way when he married Rebecca Shawley/Shally/Schally of Carlisle.) But in Columbus he was always known as Mateer. His wife's family was Lutheran and Reformed - back almost to Luther. So I now ask what was the church nearest to 618 Pennsylvania Avenue about 1890? And if it wasn't Lutheran where was the nearest Lutheran church located. Best regards to the ever helpful list-- Hal