Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
St. John's Mixon Creek-Shiloh Lutheran Church (Lavaca County), Texas. |
Collection |
Disbanded Congregations Collection |
Catalog Number |
2014.1.259 |
Object Name |
File, document |
Location |
FBox 100, F3 |
Date |
1901 - 1966 |
Scope & Content |
Copy of Kasse Buch (Ladies Aid) 1923-1946 financial, membership, and minutes; "History of Shiloh, Hackberry, New Kinkler" by Eldor E. Spies 1981; Copies of "Geiger in Oakland" and "Geiger at Shiloh School" from "The Legacy of Pastor C. Geiger:.....1868-1968" |
Notes |
Evangelical Lutheran, St. John's of Shiloh officially began 1901 but various pastors conducted services before this time. It belonged to the First German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Texas. Shiloh became a dual parish with Trinity Lutheran at New Bielau-Content Church. Evangelische Lutherische St. Johnnes Gemiende at Mixon Creek began about 1905. Mixon Creek and Shilo merged and moved to the Spies farm in 1922 and remained there until it closed in 1966. Early worship took place at the Mertz home and Pleasant Grove School. St. John's Mixon Creek records lost after it closed in 1922. Mixon Creek-Shiloh, St. Peters of Hallettsville and Zion of Sublime-Content jointly called Pastor Arthur Daniel Rode who served them from 1922 to 1929. In 1935 Hallettsville had its own pastor. In 1942 Hallettsville joined the others to become a three point parish again. Eldor Spies book contains the history of several communities and schools in Lavaca County. Church records for St. John's Mixon Creek-Shiloh for 1921-1965 are at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Hallettsville. Earlier Geiger records are at French Simpson Library in Hallettsville. Other names for Mixon Creek are Mixing, Mixon, Mixing Creek, Pleasant Grove, and Mixing Pleasant Hill. Other communities near by and served by Pastor Geiger include Honey Creek, Sweet Home, Oakland or Prairie Point, Lavaca, Antioch, Hackberry (Neuhaus), New Kinkler, and Vsetin. |
Language of Material |
English German |
Subjects |
Lutheran Church -- Texas -- Disbanded Congregations |
Classification |
Disbanded Congregation |
Search Terms |
St. John's Mixon Creek-Shiloh Lutheran Church (Lavaca County), Texas. St. John's Shiloh Lutheran Church (Lavaca County), Texas. St. John's Mixon Creek Lutheran Church (Lavaca County), Texas. Disbanded Congregations |
People |
Dziewas, August Flachmeier, William August Frieling, Carl Geiger, Christoph Heinrich, Maximillian, Sr. Hoefer, J. Leo Jacobs, Elmer Waldemar Klages, Alfred Daniel Kluge, Alfred Theodor Krause, Hans Erich Kraushaar, William Frederick Krueger, George William Lentz, Rudolph Rode, Arthur Daniel Roth, Karl Sagebiel, Edward August Wolfsdorff, Wilhelm Christian Zimmerman, Herbert M. |
Relation |
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