Archive Record
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Metadata
Title |
Eden Lutheran Church, Olivia, Texas |
Collection |
Disbanded Congregations Collection |
Catalog Number |
2014.1.301 |
Object Name |
File, document |
Location |
FBox 99, F 3-6 |
Date |
1893 - 1961 |
Scope & Content |
Original journal and a copy of the minutes, constitution, charter, newspaper clippings, photos, history and notes. See Finding Aids for details |
Finding Aids |
Folder 3: Resolution on Dissolution; 5 photos and article about damage by Hurricane Carla, 1961; Charter and Constitution; The Texas-Louisiana Lutheran, December 1961. Folder 4: Correspondence, History and notes on Eden and Olivia; 100th Anniversary Celebration of Olivia booklet; "One Family of God" by M. L. Lundquist. Folder 5: Original Record Book of Minutes 1912-1957. Folder 6: |
Notes |
Olivia was started in 1893 and the building was distroyed by an hurricane in 1961. The congregation voted to disband and join St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Point Comfort Pastor Haterius purchased land called Wolf Point Ranch and located his colony about 10 miles across the Lavaca Bay from Indianola. In 1956 Eden began sharing a pastor with St. Mark's in Pt. Comfort. Records are at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Point Comfort,. |
Language of Material |
English |
Subjects |
Lutheran Church--Texas--Disbanded Congregations |
Classification |
Disbanded Congregation Swedish congregations Church Records |
Search Terms |
Eden Lutheran Church, Olivia, Texas Disbanded Congregations |
People |
Anderson, A. Walfred Damstrom, Carl Johan Gunberg, M. A. Haterius, Carl J. E. Heurlin, Eric Larson, Lorenze P. Leonard, Grover Clement Palmquist, Keith Stanley Peterson, Elwood Setterlund, Wallace Valentine |
Relation |
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