I'm researching my German Lutheran ancestors, Freiberg, and suspect some may be buried in the Tamaqua area. Do you have a address for those cemeteries? Does anyone have a listing of the graves? Thanks Bruce Coyne On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:30:39 -0500, "Glee Krapf" <gleek@ptd.net> said: > I have an article from the local newspaper that says that the German > Lutheran church on Dutch Hill was formed in 1835 and the log church > building > was built in 1837. In 1855 they replaced it with a brick building. Dutch > Hill is in Tamaqua I can see it from my house. It is a big hill. It was > also > called the union church. It was used by the German and the Reformed > churchs. > The way I understnd it they were two versions of the Lutheran church. > Some > of my husbands family are buried in its cemetery which still exists. I > have > taken pictures of graves in there. The church split 4 ways but St. John > which was the last to go took the brick from the old church and built a > new > church on the corner of Pine and East Mauch Chunk. They still use the > original bell and it is rung every Sunday and can be heard all over town. > Glee Krapf > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J.S. Hendricks" <hendricksjs@comcast.net> > To: <paschuyl@rootsweb.com>; "Janet Binkley" <jrbinkley@comcast.net> > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:00 PM > Subject: Re: [PASCHUYL] Tamaqua Lutheran Church? > > > > Dear Jan, > > Now you are getting into my childhood . . . Tamaqua RD is where I attended > > a one room school for 4th, 5th and 6th grades! > > I believe the Benjamin Brobst you speak of (below) is Benjamin Kistler > > Brobst of Albany Twp., Berks County, PA . . . just over the Blue Mountain > > (South of Tamaqua). This is the same area where my HENDRICKS ancestors > > settled in the late 1700's. Tamaqua did / does have Lutheran Churches. > > This Benjamin was baptised in the Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Stoney Run, > > Albany Twp., Berks Co., Pennsylvania in July 1832 (not Tamaqua but just a > > half-day buggy ride over the mountain). > > Stay well, > > John Shipman Hendricks > > in Vero Beach, Fl 32968 > > Ysearch User ID: P5QP9 > > <><><><><><><><><><><> Researching <><><><><><><><><><> > > Adams-Auchmuty-Brady-Bogar/Boger-Campbell-Dunkelberger-Everet > > Faeg-Ferster-Fisher-Gottschalk-Heim-Hendricks-Henni-Hile-Johnson > > Kerschner-Klingemann-Lytle-McKinney-Minneger-Moll-Musser-Neese > > Polhemus-Rebuck-Reed/Rieth-Reitz-Reichelderfer-Sampsel-Shipman > > Schneider-Stettler-Schwartz-Weygand-Wolfhardt-Wayne-Zettlemoyer > > Visit Website at: http://home.comcast.net/~HendricksJS/ > > <><><><><><><><><><><> My Ancestors <><><><><><><><><><> > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: JRBinkley > > To: paschuyl@rootsweb.com > > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:11 PM > > Subject: [PASCHUYL] Tamaqua Lutheran Church? > > > > > > Is there also a Lutheran Ch in Tamaqua? And Methodist? My > > gr-grandfather Benjamin BROBST lived in Tamaqua in the 1870s, and I > > don't know what religion he was, though some of the family had turned > > Methodist. > > > > JRBinkley > > Oxford PA > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > PASCHUYL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PASCHUYL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message