History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . pply. And by resolution of Synod he wasrequested to visit Alexandria, Petersburg and Huntingdon. How-ever, in the meantime any other brother was to be permitted topreach at Huntingdon and the churches connected with it. and ifelected, to take charge. Rev. Rebenach visited Huntingdon, butas they could not raise the support he desired, he supplied them308 TRINITY, WATERSTREET until the next meeting of Synod (1818). Huntin
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . pply. And by resolution of Synod he wasrequested to visit Alexandria, Petersburg and Huntingdon. How-ever, in the meantime any other brother was to be permitted topreach at Huntingdon and the churches connected with it. and ifelected, to take charge. Rev. Rebenach visited Huntingdon, butas they could not raise the support he desired, he supplied them308 TRINITY, WATERSTREET until the next meeting of Synod (1818). Huntingdon sent aletter of complaint against Rev. Schmick to Synod, stating thatRev. Schmick had too many congregations and was unwilling tovacate any of them, while Rev. Rebenach had too few and notsufficient support. The matter was adjusted by both preachingat Waterstreet and an election held. The one elected by thatcongregation was to vacate Williamsburg and Clover Schmick was elected. In 1818, Rev. Schmick was licensed. That same year Shaffer, great-grandfather of the present Shaffer connec-tion in the vicinity of Waterstreet, and his wife Eve, together. FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH, WATERSTREET, BUILT l8l8 with Louis Mytinger and his wife Catherine, great-grandparentsof Mrs. S. R. Zacharias, of Waterstreet, deeded, free of allincumbrance, a lot of land lying in the junction of the old Tyroneand Birmingham road and the present State Highway at Shaf-fersville, for a Lutheran and German Reformed Church andgraveyard. The deed says to the German Lutheran and Ger-man Presbyterians, a term sometimes used in those days insteadof Reformed. The church was begun by the two congregationsin [818. It was a two-story stone building with a gallery onthree sides, and was 32 by 36 feet. The laying of the corner-stbne and the dedication is not recorded, for when the building 309 JUNIATA CONFERENCE was removed in after years the papers in the stone were stone is still preserve
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