Evangelical Lutheran Paulus Congregational Church History

This brief history of the Evangelical Lutheran Paulus 
Congregational Church was found with the WPA Graves Registration 
Project enumeration of the cemetery. The WPA schedules were dated 
Dec., 1940.

	Transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com

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				Cemetery History
                               of
	  Evangelical Lutheran Paulus Congregational Church
		                  Now
                     Zion Ev. Lutheran Church

	In the year 1895, month of December, Christian Schmidt and 
Johanetta Schmidt Husband and Wife, Washington County, State if 
Wisconsin, sold in consideration of $1.00 to the Trustees of the 
Evangelical Lutheran Paulus Congregational Church and their successors 
in office To wit:-

	Commencing at the S. W. corner of sec. 1. - Thence running East on 
said section line 28 rods, - Thence North 28 rods, - Thence West 28 
rods, - Thence South 28 rods on said section line to the place of 
beginning. The object being to convey a strip of land 28 rods square in 
the S.W. ¼ of the S.W. ¼ of Sec. 1, Twn. 95N of R61W. in said Bon Homme 
County.

	No church ever was built on this piece of land. Church services 
were conducted Pioneer style until the final dissolution of 
organization, its members joining elsewhere.

	This cemetery for the past several years has been and now is under 
the custodianship of the Zion Ev. Lutheran Church, Avon, So. Dakota.

	The cemetery’s present committee chairman is Dave J. Brandt, Avon, 
So. Dak.

	Further details may be found in Book T - Page 423 and Book 16 - 
Page 134. Register of Deeds Office, Tyndall, So. Dakota.