History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . congregationorganized with twenty-four members. August 4, 1849, therewas struck off from the plantation owned by Benjamin Backis,lying along the public road from Centerville to Meyers Mills, atthe request of said Benjamin Backis, a lot of i6oT/2 perches forCenter church, in the presence of Adam Swerner, John Burg- 635 SOi 1 ERSET CONFERENCE holder and William Vought, trustees of said church, to be calledthe Evangelical
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . congregationorganized with twenty-four members. August 4, 1849, therewas struck off from the plantation owned by Benjamin Backis,lying along the public road from Centerville to Meyers Mills, atthe request of said Benjamin Backis, a lot of i6oT/2 perches forCenter church, in the presence of Adam Swerner, John Burg- 635 SOi 1 ERSET CONFERENCE holder and William Vought, trustees of said church, to be calledthe Evangelical Lutheran congregation of Center Church, of ElkLick Township. The original survey of this land is datedDecember 16, 1775, and conveyed to John Burkholder, February12, 1813. The deed for the lot given the church was deliveredMay 11, 1850, by Benjamin Backis and wife, Eliza, on the pay-ment by the trustees of fifty cents. The lot was on the Center-ville Road, and believing the church ought to be the communitycenter, it was named appropriately Center church. The first communion was held November 29, 1849, at whichtime the following persons partook of the Sacrament, most of. CENTER EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, GARRETT, R. D. REV. W. H. B. CARNEY whom, no doubt, became charter members of the organizationwhich was completed February 17, 1850. The original spelling isretained : Godfried Wiltrout, John Borkholder, Adam Swerner,Benjamin Backis, William Vough, Jacob Swerner, ChristianChristner, John Shaad, Sr., Adam Swerner, Jr., Daniel Swerner,John Shaad, Jr., Henry Shaad, William Briske, Baltzer Walter,Matthias Judy, Conrad Engel, Henry Smearman, Sr., JohnHenry Smearman, Jr., Monroe Leonhard, Augustus Heining,636 CENTER, SUMMIT TOWNSHIP, SOMERSET COUNTY Philip Kraft. Philip Bedinger, Margaret Wiltrout, ChristianSwerner, Lydia Hochstetler, Joana Swerner, Rosan Loenhard,Useba Loenhard, Elizabeth Bidinger, Catharine Swerner, Eliza-beth Backis, Hanna Walter, Mary Judy, Eliz. Kretchman, Mary
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