Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana : Historical and biographical ... . of the township and in the vicinity ofPoland, German settlers were found as early as 1837. In the year 1839,we find the names Ahlemeyer, Nesse, Stutz, Gilbrich and others. Thelast-named gentleman died in February, 1840. A few months previousto his death, however, he had helped to clear away a piece of forest andprepare a place for a cemetery and church lot. It was on this occasionthat, while sitting upon a fallen tree, they organized themselves, in arather primitive manner, into a body politic, and elected as their firstTru

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Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana : Historical and biographical ... . of the township and in the vicinity ofPoland, German settlers were found as early as 1837. In the year 1839,we find the names Ahlemeyer, Nesse, Stutz, Gilbrich and others. Thelast-named gentleman died in February, 1840. A few months previousto his death, however, he had helped to clear away a piece of forest andprepare a place for a cemetery and church lot. It was on this occasionthat, while sitting upon a fallen tree, they organized themselves, in arather primitive manner, into a body politic, and elected as their firstTrustees Ueni-y Ahlemeyer, Louis Stutz and John Horsch. In 1850, wefind the following German names, in addition to those already men-tioned: Franke Schror, Telgemeyer, Knueppe, Thoene, Sonnefeld, Spel-bring, Borckhold, Mersch, Bohley, Rothenberger, Teepe, Neimeyer, Katt-mann, Schultz, Kortepeter, Hoff, Wittenberg, Wiewinner, Truttier andBauman. Some of these names are not found in the neighborhood first pastor of this congregation was the Rev. Gerhard H. Zumpe,.

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