Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
St. Paul Lutheran Church at Shive (Hamilton), Texas |
Collection |
St. Paul Lutheran Church, Shive, TX Collection |
Catalog Number |
2018.7.3 |
Object Name |
Disc, Compact |
Location |
SBox 95, Folder 12 |
Date |
1901-2018 |
Scope & Content |
This box contains folders which hold some annual meeting minutes; information concerning the closing of the congregation; constitution of the congregation; council minutes; financial documents; histories; insurance and legal documents; membership lists; pastors; copies of parish records (same as in FBox 19, Folders 1-5) as well as a CD of parish records (2018.7.3); ledgers of minutes for the Luther League, Women's Missionary Society, and Brotherhood organizations; and additional congregational and council meeting minutes. This congregation voted to close on Dec. 10, 2017, and held its last service on Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018. See Finding Aids for listing of specific files and ledgers available in this holding. |
Finding Aids |
Folder 1 - Annual meeting documents, not complete. Included here is a copy of the Constitution, adopted 1963. Folder 2 - Documents concerning the closing of the congregation, including the documentation of the vote on Dec. 10, 2017, to close. Folder 3 - Council minutes in German dated 1901 to 1943. Folder 4 - Council minutes in English dated 1908 to 1936. Folder 5 - Council minutes dated 1968 to 1996. Folder 6 - Some Financial records of holdings by the congregation Folder 7 - Histories of the congregation Folder 8 - Some insurance documents Folder 9 - Various legal documents Folder 10 - Membership communion records, not complete Folder 11 - Various documents relating to pastors who have served this congregation Folder 12 - Copies of the parish records (same as in FBox 19, Folders 1-5) as well as a CD of the same parish records (2018.7.3) Various ledgers, all hand printed and some in German, detailing the happenings of the following organizations: Luther League - 1935 to 1941 Luther League - 1950 to 1955 Luther League - 1956 to 1961 Women's Missionary Society - 1934 to 1948 Women's Missionary Society - 1949 to 1959 Brotherhood - 1948 to 1960 Brotherhood - 1961 to 1966 Additional Ledgers include: Council Minutes & Congregational Meetings, 1946 to 1968 and 1996 to 2018. A ledger in German of unknown meetings dated 1915 to 1926. A ledger of the congregation's Constitution |
Notes |
St. Paul in Shive and Trinity in Pottsville became a dual parish in 1906 until 1961. In 1970 these two congregations again shared pastors. Copies of Parish Records from Trinity Lutheran Church in Pottsville and St. Paul Lutheran Churches in Shive. between 1897 and 1969 are in the Region 4 South Archives, record 2003.19.1. FBox 19, Folders 1-5. |
Language of Material |
English |
Subjects |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America--History |
Classification |
Disbanded Congregations |
Search Terms |
Disbanded Congregations St. Paul Lutheran Church at Shive (Hamilton), Texas. |
People |
Bracher, Frederick Luther Burnett, James P. Flachmeier, William August Holm, Julius Frederick Herman Kensing, Wilburn P. Kingman, Donald Kuhlmann, Elmer Henry Lentz, Rudolph Lentz, Walter Leonard Otto Merz, Albert H. Naumann, Friedrich George Eduard Roth, Karl Senff, Gerhard Carl Wehmeyer, Heinrich Christian Winkelmann, Richard Frederick Zimmermann, Daniel L. |