If you find out where this other Ziegler's Church is located,
please let me
know. I'd be very interested in learning more about this.
Todd,
Thanks for the info on Ziegler's Church of York, PA. Is it a Lutheran &
Reformed Church? What city is it located in or near? Any Zieglers buried
in the graveyard there?
Here is what I have on the only other Ziegler's church I know of:
ZIEGLER'S CHURCH (Lutheran & Reformed) Mifflin Tp, Cumberland County, PA
(10 miles west of Carlisle)
"Ziegler's Lutheran Church in Mifflin Township was organized in 1790 and
situated on property donated for that purpose by Jacob Zeigler. This was
a union church, with Lutheran and Reformed sharing the premises and the
graveyard....Lutheran custom requires that all names be recorded in books
showing all these events [communion, baptism, & marriage] , including the
name of all who take communion on a given date. By 1832 the Reformed
section of the congregation had disintegrated in dissension, and the
Lutherans had organized in the nearby town of Newville and incorporated
under the name of Zion Lutheran Church. This new church, drawing on a
larger population, absorbed the Mifflin membership and the old records
are now found with the Zion Church in Newville. Meanwhile the old church
building at Council Bluff was abandoned and eventually sold. Amazingly,
this building, described as two stories high and made of log, was removed
approximately three miles in the 1840's to serve a congregation of the
Evangelical Association until it later burned down."
SOURCE: The Mentzer-Zeigler Family: A Story of Pennsylvania Germans in
Cumberland County
Only two Zeiglers are buried at this Ziegler's Church. There are about
three dozen people total.
ZEIGLER, John (June 1787-29 April 1863)
ZEIGLER, Catharine (March 1787-14 October 1856)
SOURCE: Taken from Cemetery Records listed under USGenweb Site for
Cumberland County, PA.
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I see you live in York County. Are you aware of the "Peter Ziegler Family
Tree" book by John A.M. Ziegler, 1935
His book chronicles the Zieglers in York County. I have a copy and could
do look-ups for you if you want.
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My ancestor, Peter Ziegler, is an altogether different Peter than the one
just mentioned. Mine was born 1778 in Montgomery County, moved to
Northumberland County about 1839, and lived/died in Perry County 1856. I
have no proof that he was ever in Cumberland or York County. But he was
supposed to have "owned a tract of land next to Ziegler's Church." I just
don't which one or where that would be. That is my currrent quest.
Blessings,
Brad Ziegler
Union, MO.