Cemetery Listings of
Kratzburg Trinity and St. Peter's German Evangelical-Lutheran Churches
at Fulda and Lamar
in
Spencer County Indiana

Family Name
Birth/Death
Town
County
Bauer geb. Küffner (Kueffner)   Gottsfeld Bayreuth
Bauer 1807 Bühl Bayreuth
Beren   Hille Minden-Lübbecke
Betz 1818/ Truppbach Bayreuth
Boehm geb. Schlicht 1794/1862 Frankenberg Bayreuth
Brinkman geb. Raven   Affinghausen Diepholz
Buhrmeister 1814/   Preußen
Cramm geb. Schwerz (Schwarz) 1806/ Barntrup Lippe (Detmold)
Cramm 1806/1887 Haueda Kassel
Dersch   Caldern (Kreis Marburg an der Lahn) Marburg-Biedenkopf
Dick   Monzingen Bad Kreuznach
Druschel 1833/ Wallroth (Kreis Schlüchtern) Main-Kinzig-Kreis (Hanau)
Family Name
Birth/Death
Town
County
Engelbrecht 1821/1887 Prebitz Bayreuth
Escher   Wimmers (Thun) Bern Schweiz
Feiler 1822 Affalterthal (Egloffstein) Forchheim
Freiberger 1811 Windischenlaibach Bayreuth
Fischer 1822/ Windischenlaibach Bayreuth
Fritz   Plochingen Esslingen
Fuchs   Glauberg Wetteraukreis (Friedberg)
Geyer 1840/ Großgartach Heilbronn
Günther geb. Aue   Unterbillingshausen Göttingen
Heberlein   Hainbronn Bayreuth
Heinlein geb. Weigel 1824/ Mistelbach (Oberfranken) Bayreuth
Heinlein 1818/ Fischbach Weidenberg) Bayreuth
Held 1826/ Affalterthal (Egloffstein) Forchheim
Family Name
Birth/Death
Town
County
Hempfling   Bronn (Oberfranken) Bayreuth
Herr   Wiesbach (?)  
Hörath (Hoerath) 1809/ Birk Bayreuth
Jung 1813/ Hirschthal Pirmasens
Jung geb. Weber 1815/ Schönau (Pfalz) Pirmasens
Kanzler geb. Krauß (Krauss)   Blankenburg (?) Augsburg
Kanzler 1811/ Trebatsch Baaskow
Keller geb. Küffner (Kueffner) 1811/1880 Gottsfeld Bayreuth
Keller geb. Philipps 1809/1892 Langenreuth Bayreuth
Keller 1816/1847 Preußling Bayreuth
Kreß (Kress) 1801/ Wallroth (Kreis Schlüchtern) Main-Kinzig-Kreis (Hanau)
Krüger (Krueger)   Gosen Fürstenwalde
Lambeck geb Heberlein 1842/ Weidensees Bayreuth
Lambeck 1836 Burg (bei Magdeburg) Burg
Family Name
Birth/Death
Town
County
Leistner 1829/1883 Langenreuth Bayreuth
Lippert 1803/ Bieberswöhr Bayreuth
Lottes geb. Hörath (Hoerath) 1826/ Frankenberg Bayreuth
Lottes 1820/ Zips Bayreuth
Mann   Losau Bayreuth
Nützel (Nuetzel) 1833/ Funkendorf Bayreuth
Petri     Hessen
Pöllein (Poellein, Poehlein) /1866   Oberfranken
Preuß (Preuss)   Altencreußen Bayreuth
Rapp geb. Caspar   Vielbronn (Odenwald) Michelstadt
Rössler (Roessler)     Württemberg
Roos 1838 Schönborn Rhein-Lahn-Kreis (Bad Ems)
Russ   Sobernheim Bad Kreuznach
Schauß geb. Schütz (Schuetz)   Laurenburg Rhein-Lahn-Kreis (Bad Ems
Schauß (Schauss)   Schönborn Rhein-Lahn-Kreis (BadEms)
Family Name
Birth/Death
Town
County
Scheerle   Hohenhaslach Ludwigsburg
Schmied     Kassel-hessen
Schönbach (Schoenbach)   Witzenhausen Werra-Meißner-Kreis (Eschwege)
Smith (Schmidt)     Ost-Friesland
Vogel geb. Gräfin(Graefin)   Schnabelwaid Bayreuth
Vogel geb. Müller (Mueller)   Thuisbrunn Bayreuth
Vogel 1829/ Bieberswöhr Bayreuth
Weigel   Funkendorf Bayreuth
Winkelmann 1823/1907 Nottuln (?) Coesfeld
Wirsing   Waltershausen Gotha
Wohlleb 1819/ Gottenheim Breisgau/Hochschwarzwald (Freiburg)
Zahn geb. Lange 1806/ Molschleben Gotha
Zahn 1814/ Bienstädt Erfurt
Zimmermann   Buempliz Bern Schweiz

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Discussion. Kratzburg Church is located on Indiana Highway 545 about three-fourths of a mile south of the town of Fulda in Harrison Township. St. Peter's Church is located abut two miles east of Lamar, Indiana and is located on County Road 1175E (now renamed Sammy Ferguson Road) in Huff Township. Both churches are served by one pastor, who resides in the parsonage at St. Peter's. Copies of the records of both churches are maintained in the office in the church at St. Peters. Microfilmed copies are maintained in the Spencer County Public Library at Rockport and the Lincoln Heritage Library in Dale. The records are in German for the most part. Some parts are plainly written and relatively easy to make out, and other parts are exceedingly difficult.

Many of families named in this document came from a small area in Oberfranken located in and around the towns of CreuDFen and Pegnitz. Many of the German-Lutheran families of Boone and Harbison Township in Dubois County, came from this same area. See Jasper Area Indiana History, 1989, for histories of some of these families.

The book Keller and Allied Families, 154 pages, written by Herman F. Keller (Aug 14, 1905 - Dec. 1, 1990) from Kratzburg, may be useful to those researching in these churches. It is available in the genealogical collection at the Rockport Public Library. On page 11, Mr. Keller says that his ancestor sailed from Bremen to New Orleans on the Barque Bashaw of Boston arriving about the middle of October 1845. All the passengers were from Bararia, and of the 147 passengers, 79 came by boat to Troy on Nov. 1, 1845.

My purpose in making this list was simply to be of service to those researching their families. Some of the names in the records are easy to read and spelled correctly, but many others are hard to read and not spelled correctly. Being able to read German, I thought I would be in a better position than most others in figuring out the place names in the records. On top of that, it was interesting and challenging. I probably did not find every place name in the records.

Names with (?) are only educated guesses. They are the best I could find using "wild card" searches of the German place name database via the Internet. Where the records have Phillronn, for example, I came up with Vielbronn; for Mostfil I came up with Wustviel, for Nuttel I came up with Notteln. There are three Wiesbach for Herr. My impression is that often the names were spelled by the pastor based on how he understood the pronunciation. The main concern for me was to find a place located in the German kingdom, duchy or province shown in the records, as this part of the name was probably always correct.

Mike Gramelspacher, Jr.

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