The history of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and Ministerium of North Carolina, in commemoration of the completion of the first century of its existence . y. The present membership istwenty-two. In 1871 the Synod appointed a committee to make sale ofthe real estate attached to the old Heidleberg Church. And in1872 the committee reported that they had sold it for ,and, in accordance with their instructions, had had a substantialstone wall built around the old graveyard at that place. The congregation has an interest in the parsonage at TyroShops. Pastors. Rev. Paul Henkel 1785—1789. Rev
The history of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and Ministerium of North Carolina, in commemoration of the completion of the first century of its existence . y. The present membership istwenty-two. In 1871 the Synod appointed a committee to make sale ofthe real estate attached to the old Heidleberg Church. And in1872 the committee reported that they had sold it for ,and, in accordance with their instructions, had had a substantialstone wall built around the old graveyard at that place. The congregation has an interest in the parsonage at TyroShops. Pastors. Rev. Paul Henkel 1785—1789. Rev. G. Shober 1809. Rev. J. Crim 1843—1S60. Rev. C. Lentz 1863—1864. Rev. W. R. Ketchie 1869—1870. Rev. J. D. Bowles 1870—1873. Rev. H. M. Brown 1874—1880. Rev. W. A. Julian 1880—1885. Rev. J. M. Hedrick 1885—1887. Rev. R. L. Brown 1888—1892. Rev. E. P. Parker 1893—1894. Rev. H. E. H. Sloop 1896—1897. Rev. W. Kimball 1897—1898. Rev. P. J. Wade 1898. St. Johns Church, located in Salisbury, Rowan County,.N. C. The date of the first organization of the congregation is notknown, but was somewhere between 1747, when the first German. SKETCHES OF CONGREGATIONS. 127 Lutheran settlers came from Pennsylvania, and 1768, when aparcel of land lying near the little village of Salisbury, now theold Lutheran graveyard in the city, was deeded to,the congre-gation by Mr. John Louis Beard for the purpose of a graveyard ;and upon which it was proposed to erect a house of accordance with the usual custom at that time, the housewas built of logs, and was the first church of any kind evererected in Salisbury. It was wholly Lutheran ; that is, no one else had any right ortitle in it ; and it was the only one of the three mother-churches,as well as many others in after years, that was owned entirelyby the Lutherans. According to the terms of the deed of theland, the Church of England and the Calvinistic Churches werepermitted to hold service in the house when it was no
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