Any Luth churches around Mocksville, Rowan Co, NC bef 1800?? Best, Hal McCawley 4178 Pindar Way, Oceanside, CA 92056 760.941.4716 <HalMac@Cox.net> ----- Original Message ----- From: <rlmlfm@aol.com> To: <rowanroots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] [NCROWAN] Lutheran records > > Hal, > > > > The Organ (Zion) Lutheran Church is located south of Salisbury and near > the Rowan-Cabarrus County border. I have read that they have records > dating back to the early days of this church and these records are all > written in German. The original part of the Organ Church building that it > is today was built between 1792 and 1795. Pastor Storch was the pastor of > Organ Lutheran Church from 1788-1823 and Storch recorded in the church > records that in 1774 a group of members began to build the church > building. > > Here are the three earliest, to my knowledge, Lutheran churches in Rowan > County. > > > Organ Lutheran Church (est. 1775) > > 1515 Organ Church Rd > > Salisbury, NC 28146, US > South of Salisbury and near the Rowan-Cabarrus County border > > > > St John's Lutheran Church (est. ca. 1772) > > 200 W Innes St > > Salisbury, NC 28144 > Within the city of Salisbury > > > St Peters Lutheran Church > > 2570 Saint Peters Church Rd > > Salisbury, NC 28146 > > > Southeast of the city of Salisbury > > Linda Monticelli > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hal McCawley <halmac@cox.net> > To: rowanroots@rootsweb.com > Cc: Landers, Lois <mtnwoman@getgoin.net> > Sent: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 4:56 pm > Subject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] [NCROWAN] Lutheran records > > > > > Marla. Where is this Organ Luth Ch located and what era do their rec > cover? > ere there other Luth ch in 1799s Rowan Co?? > est, > al McCawley 4178 Pindar Way, Oceanside, CA 92056 760.941.4716 > HalMac@Cox.net> > > ---- Original Message ----- > rom: <rlmlfm@aol.com> > o: <ncrowan@rootsweb.com>; <rowanroots@rootsweb.com> > ent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:30 PM > ubject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] [NCROWAN] Lutheran records > > > Marla Goodrich <mhg68@msn.com> wrote: > > > > I have Christoph and Dorothy Rintelmann and Martin Miller who married > their daughter Sophia from Rowan Co. 1700's. I have never been able to > find where in Germany they were from. I am wondering if the early Organ > Lutheran Church records tell where in Germany people were from? In these > records are there births, baptisms, marriages and deaths? Is there a way > to see these early records. > > ---------------------------------------- > Marla, > > Following is an article that mentions Christopher Rintelmann and the Organ > Lutheran Church in Rowan County that might be of interest: > > > Introduction > by Boyd and Krummel > > > > Introduction > by Boyd and Krummel > > > > [Towards the middle of the eighteenth century German immigrants made their > appearance in North Carolina. They came from Pennsylvania and settled in > the Piedmont region, in the area including the present counties of > Forsyth, Guilford, Orange, Alamance, Stanly, Cabarrus, Gaston, Lincoln, > Iredell, Stokes, Davie, Davidson and Rowan. Their outstanding > characteristics were loyalty to their native language and customs-German > being used in the churches for many years,-skill in the industrial arts > and agriculture, and a disinclination to participate in politics. Their > numbers we do not know, but according to the census of 1790 there were > approximately eight thousand. Their religious heritage was German Reformed > and Lutheran. They organized and built churches but ministers were few, > the only pastors prior to 1773 being of the German Reformed church. Often > the members of the two denominations worshipped together and often, also, > services were conducted by the laity. > > > With this situation the Lutherans were not satisfied, and in 1772, after > unsuccessful efforts to secure pastors and teachers from Pennsylvania, > they sent two commissioners to > > Europe, CHRISTOPHER RENTELMANN, from ORGAN CHURCH, ROWAN County, and > CHRISTOPHER LAYRLE of St. John's Church, MECKLENBURG, (now CABARRUS > County) to apply for aid to the Consistory of Hanover. > > > > Passing through London the commissioners received encouragement from the > royal court; a call for aid was issued from the Chapel of St. James and > King George III himself made a contribution. From Hanover the Reverend > Adolph Nüssmann, formerly a member of the Franciscan Order, was secured as > pastor and Gottfried Arend as school master. These worthies arrived in > North Carolina in 1773 and located in Orange County. Soon Arend was > ordained a minister and took charge of the churches in Rowan, Nüssmann > transferring to Mecklenburg (now Cabarrus County). It was the hope of > these men and their parishioners to secure further aid from the Consistory > of Hanover, but the Revolution interrupted all communication with the > fatherland. In 1787, however, effort was made to renew relations; the hope > being to secure more pastors and also books for religious > > and secular instruction. Communication was opened, however, not with the > Consistory of Hanover, but with the Reverend Johann Caspar Velthusen, > Professor of Theology in the Julius Charles University at Helmstaedt, > Duchy of Brunswick, who, as court preacher at London in 1773, had been > interested in the missionary movement of that time in behalf of North > Carolina. Under his leadership a missionary society was organized to aid > the Lutheran churches in North Carolina, and soon additional pastors > arrived, Reverend Christopher Bernhardt in 1787, Carl August Storch in > 1788, and Reverend Arnold Roshen soon after. However, the aid sought and > extended was not confined to the sending of ministers. Text books, lay and > religious, were asked for and under the leadership of Velthusen eight text > books were prepared and published for use in the Lutheran schools of North > Carolina. Thus the Lutheran Church was given a broader foundation and in > 1803 the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina was formally > organized. > > > > Concerning these matters the pamphlets here reprinted in translation give > much information. They include the four formal reports of the Helmstaedt > professors concerning the text books prepared for the youth of North > Carolina and also two reports > > of Nüssmann concerning the status of the Lutheran churches in North > Carolina. Space permits only the publication in this issue of the reports > on the text books; those concerning the churches will appear in the issue > of April 1930.] > > > > (Source: > http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Bookshelf/lutheran/intro.htm) > > Linda Monticelli > > ________________________________________________________________________ > More new features than ever. 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St. John's Lutheran Church is located about 17 miles south of Mocksville. St. John's was established around 1768, if I'm remembering correctly. Linda Hal McCawley <halmac@cox.net> wrote: Any Luth churches around Mocksville, Rowan Co, NC bef 1800?? Best, Hal McCawley 4178 Pindar Way, Oceanside, CA 92056 760.941.4716 --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.