ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA: BAPTISMAL RECORDS BY THE REVEREND GEORGE DANIEL FLOHR AND THE REVEREND JACOB SCHERER, 1804-1836, compiled by Mary B. Kegley, 2006, 64 pages, limited edition, soft-bound, indexed.

This new book was compiled from more than 550 original German records of the church beginning in 1804. Also included are the list of elders and deacons, the regulations of the church for 1804, the list of subscribers to the building of the first church in 1800, and the organ in 1816 as well as sketches of the two pastors, Flohr and Scherer.

ZION CHURCH, WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA: ANNOTATED BAPTISMAL RECORDS, 1791-1835. Compiled by Mary B. Kegley, 1991, soft-bound, 98 pages, bibliography, index, map. Original records in German, translated and annotated with wills, marriage records, lawsuits, deeds, court orders and family records. Many from Rowan County, NC and Pennsylvania, and moving on to Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky and other places west. Some of the names included in the index are Arney, Bauer, Baugh, Brandstetter, Buck, Burkhardt, Collup, Copenhaver, Crigger, Darter, Deckert, Dutton, Earhart, Fox, Gose, Groseclose, Hedrick, Hillenberg, Hines, Huddle, Keesling, Kettering, Kimberling, Kinder, Kinzer, Lindamood, Litz, Mease, Phillippi, Reichardt, Rosenbaum, Shupe, Spangler, Spraker, Stanger, Vanhuss (Huss), Vaught, Wampler, Wetzel, Wisman, Wiseley, Wolf, Worley, and many other connecting lines.

ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH, WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA: ANNOTATED BAPTISMAL RECORDS 1793-1833. Compiled by Mary B. Kegley, 1991, soft-bound, 51 pages, bibliography, index, map. Original records in German, translated and annotated with wills, marriage records, lawsuits, deeds, court orders, and family records. Some of the names which appear in the index are Baugh, Buck, Baumgardner, Blessing, Brandstetter, Cassell, Cormany, Creger, Daude, Deckert, Dutton, Fox, Gose, Grub, Hedrick, Hillenberg, Hounshell, Huddle, Kettering, Kinder, Kinser, King, Knipp, Lambert, Lindamood, Messersmith, Miller, Moyers, Neff, Nifong, Phillipi, Pickle, Rouse, Snaveley, Staley, Steffey, Stanger, Swallow, Tarter, Umbarger, Venrick, Wampler, Weaver, Wetzel,Wiseley, Wisman, and many other connecting lines.

REPRINTED: KIMBERLING CHURCH, WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA: ANNOTATED BAPTISMAL AND CEMETERY RECORDS, compiled by Beverly Repass Hoch, Mary B. Kegley and Timothy D. Smith, 1986, 139 pages, soft-bound, bibliography, illustrated, indexed.

This book contains baptismal records, tombstone inscriptions and death records. Baptisms began in 1779 and probably represent both the German Lutheran and Reformed churches. The translation from the German language was used and most entries between 1779 and 1870 were annotated with various courthouse, family and other published records. More than 400 tombstone inscriptions are included, many of them now gone. Approximately 70 additional death records from the church book are included.

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