Fairfield County OhArchives Photo Place.....Israel Lutheran Cemetery / Old Dutch Hollow May 28, 2008
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Source:             Israel Lutheran Cemetery / Old Dutch Hollow
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The Israel Lutheran Church is listed as an Ohio Historic Site.  The marker 
placed at the church reads: "Pioneer Lutherans.  The Israel Eveangelical 
Lutheran Church was organized August 23, 1812.  According to available 
records, in 1813 the first meeting in Ohio of the 'Special Conferences' called 
by the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania was held at the church.  Pioneer 
Lutheran pastors, the Reverends Heineke Kendle, Huet, and Jacob Leist met to 
further organize the Christian witness on the Ohio frontier."  The Fairfield 
County Genealogical Society has a listing of the internments here, available 
in their publication "Cemeteries of Amanda Township" that was reprinted in 
2006. Their work is a compilation of the works of Charles Wagner (1943), G.F. 
Stilwell (1989), and a plot map of the cemetery provided by Mary Hartman, a 
church member.  Having a copy of this information is helpful when visiting the 
cemetery.  The cemetery is located on State Route 22.  The church itself is on 
the corner of Sixteenth Road and State Route 22.  The cemetery is on the west 
side of the church grounds.  There is another cemetery across the road 
referred to as The New Dutch Hollow; according to the Fairfield County 
Genealogical Society's book, some say the "Old Dutch Hollow" cemetery is 
actually "newer".  

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