Since this list is rather quiet, thought I'd post the following; someone may
just be looking for some of the folks listed in this passage.
The following is from a little booklet printed for the 100th Anniversary of the
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church in southeast St. Joseph Co. This paragraph
lists some of the first family's surnames:
"The "Evangelishe Zion's Gemeinde" of Madison Township, St. Joseph
County, State
of Indiana was organized on October 2, 1856 by the Rev. Philip Wagner. The newly
formed congregation, consisting of about 19 families, elected Philip Marker as
their delegate to the conference of the Evangelical Synod of North America then
convening in Mansfield, Ohio during the closing days of October, 1856. At this
conference, the congregation was officially recognized, and its organizing
pastor, the Rev. Philip Wagner, was commissioned by the conference to be Zion's
first pastor. The charter members, Philip Beehler, Peter Beehler, Peter
Bollenbacher, John Schafer, Nicklaus Schlarb, Philip Schlarb, Jacob Schlarb,
Matthias Klein, John Marker, Godfred Bernhard, Anton Albert, Peter and John
Hoos, Christian Hinze, Mr. Ramsey, Jacob Getz, and Mrs. K. Spohn, elected Philip
Fries, Christian Horein, and Philip Marker, also charter members, as their
trustees and commissioned them to purchase the first site for the Zion Church
from Daniel and Barbara Anthony.
The present Rest Haven Cemetery of the Church is the site which was purchased.
On that site was built the first hewn log church, erected in the Spring of
1857."
Many of these families still have descendants in the Madison Twp. area of St.
Joseph Co. For those unfamiliar with the county, Madison Twp. lies in the far
southeastern corner of the county bordered by Marshall Co and Elkhart Co.
[This church is presently known as the Zion United Church of Christ, located on
New Road.]