Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Churches at Birch and Lyons |
Collection |
Disbanded Congregations Collection |
Catalog Number |
2014.1.240 |
Object Name |
File, document |
Location |
FBox 98, F10 |
Date |
1882 - present |
Scope & Content |
Gathered notes and histories about the congregations at Birch and Lyons. Photos of the Lyons Evangelical United Church of Christ and of the headstone of Friedrich Ernst in the Lyons Cemetery. Parish Records information is in 2004 letter. |
Notes |
The following are four congregations in the Birch (aka Birch Creek near Yegua Creek)/Lyons area who have several names and have cooperated with each other and/or merged over the years and are no longer Lutheran Churches. These congregations exist today (2017) in the Evangelical United Church of Christ at Lyons, Texas. Before that they were associated with the United Church of Christ and made up the Lone Star Parish. Immanuel Lutheran Church at Lyons. (1882 or 83, Not LCMS but there was a Missouri Lutheran church by the same name in Lyons.) Salem Church of Birch (1882 Also called German Lutheran Church at Birch and Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church of Birch) St. Stephens German Church at Mound Prairie near Snook (1888) Friedens Church in Gay Hill community (about 1888) |
Language of Material |
English |
Subjects |
Lutheran Church--Texas--Disbanded Congregations |
Classification |
Disbanded Congregation Early congregations Preaching Points |
Search Terms |
Churches at Birch and Lyons, Texas Disbanded Congregations Immanuel Lutheran Church, Lyons, Texas Salem Church, Birch, Texas German Lutheran Church, Birch, Texas Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church, Birch, Texas St. Stephens German Church, Mound Prairie (near Snook), Texas Friedens Church, Gay Hill, Texas United Church of Christ Lone Star Parish Evangelical United Church of Christ, Lyons, Texas Immanuel Lutheran Church, Birch, Texas |
People |
Ernst, Friedrich Jacobs, Matthew P. Klindworth, Peter |