History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . bruary 7, 1814, the congregation must have been tenor twelve years old, though the exact date of its organization isnot to be found in the record. In the years 1812-13, Rev. Haas reported ninety communicantsin Huntingdon and Blair Counties, one congregation in CenterCounty, one congregation in Mifflin County. This congregation has played no small part in the developmentof the Lutheran Church in Central Pennsylvania, and
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . bruary 7, 1814, the congregation must have been tenor twelve years old, though the exact date of its organization isnot to be found in the record. In the years 1812-13, Rev. Haas reported ninety communicantsin Huntingdon and Blair Counties, one congregation in CenterCounty, one congregation in Mifflin County. This congregation has played no small part in the developmentof the Lutheran Church in Central Pennsylvania, and her sonsami daughter-, with their descendants, have been sources of 299 / UN IA TA CONFERENCE strength in many of our town and city congregations, for theyhave gone out from her borders in large numbers. The first services were held in the open, or in the Garnerhomestead, where John Michael Garner had provided a largeroom in his log house, which was used for that purpose. died in 1805, but the services were still held there duringRev. Haas term of service and afterward, until a good logschoolhouse was built on the farm of Michael Garner, Jr., OLD STONE CHURCH, NEAR MARKLESBURG, PA. In this school-house services were held until the Old StoneChurch was built, in 1840. This church is still standing, andis used occasionally for funeral services, standing as it does atthe end of the cemetery. This church was constructed of nativestone, is one story, 35 by 53 feet, and stands on part of theoriginal Garner tract. The ground was deeded to the congre-gation by Matthew Garner, for a consideration of $1, May 16, i845- Here the congregation flourished and here they worshiped until 1871. The development of the surrounding country ren-dered a more central location necessary, and in 1870-71 a new300 ST. MATTHEWS, SAXTON Frame structure was built in Marklesburg borough. This build-ing was 40 by I><» feet, afterward remodeled so as to have aseparate room for
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