History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . of Garrett. In 1775 he boughtone hundred acres along the Buffalo, of Mr. Rhoads, for £75, thathe might hunt and fish. He became a soldier in the Revolution,and in 1795 had a saw mill. He was likely one of the firstLutherans in the community and was a member at Pine Hill,where he is buried. His grandchildren are the older generationof the Judy families now among us. 629 SOMERSET CONFERENCE The construction of the Pittsbu
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . of Garrett. In 1775 he boughtone hundred acres along the Buffalo, of Mr. Rhoads, for £75, thathe might hunt and fish. He became a soldier in the Revolution,and in 1795 had a saw mill. He was likely one of the firstLutherans in the community and was a member at Pine Hill,where he is buried. His grandchildren are the older generationof the Judy families now among us. 629 SOMERSET CONFERENCE The construction of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroadthrough what was farm lands of Peter P. H. Walker, causeda town to come here. The first resident was Franklin Enos, ofMil ford Township, who erected a store near the junction ofBuffalo Creek with the Castleman River, about 1868. Sometime later he opened a union Sunday school in the house at pres-ent occupied by W. H. Miller, then the office of the Ernest &Delp Lumber Company. For awhile it met in the schoolhouse,and later in the Lutheran Church. One of the first scholars toattend was Charles H. Tilp, now Pastor Tilp of Cleveland, JIT. TABOR EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH GARRETT, PA. (BUILT 1884)REV. W. E. BROWN In the earliest Sunday school record in possession of the Luth-eran Church there are reports of a Sunday school of the years1854-1857, which was apparently under United Brethren man-agement. The organization never became permanent. Early in 1871, the erection of a Lutheran Church was begununder the care of Rev. Jesse Winecofr, who had preached forsome time in the schoolhouse. It was dedicated by him the firstSunday of October that year. The deeds for two lots were63(1 MT. TABOR, GARRETT granted to Baltzer Walter, in trust, for $100. The lumber forthe building was furnished by Mr. Enos. It is a frame building,about 40 by 24 feet, the same building now owned and occupiedby the United Evangelical congregation, and cost $800. The Lutheran
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