muddy
Muddy
Creek Church
Cemetery
(located
off exit 21 of the Pa turnpike,
Rt 272 Lancaster
County, Pa
between Denver
and Adamstown)
This is the entrance to Muddy
Creek Church Cemetery. There are nearly 4000 burials here.
Many of the stones are no longer legible. Records of early burials
were not kept so many of our earliest descendants are lost to time.
Muddy Creek Union Cemetery (adjoins the church)
Record Locations:
Started
ca 1730
Gravestone
Inscriptions: Pennsylvania German Tombstone Inscriptions,
V. 1, ed. by Oscar Stroh. E&RHS; LCHS;
LMHS
(1910) A. Hunter Rineer, Jr.
Muddy Creek Evangelical
Lutheran Church
(Also called Modenkrik or
Moden Creek Church in early records) South of Pa. Rt. 272 at Muddy
Creek Road.
History
1730/33 First log church built
with services conducted by itinerant pastors.
1733 Church records begun
by Rev. John Casper Stoever.
1744 Land deeded jointly to
Lutheran and Reformed congregations.
1747 Second church built of
stone.
1847 Third church built of
stone
1939 Present brick church
dedicated.
1968 Union with reformed Church
dissolved and Lutherans acquired other half of the property.
Ellis and Evans, pp. 712-713.
Hist. Sketches of Cocalico, 99 37--38
Hist. of Lancaster Conference, 99 746-748
Klein, V. 1, p. 197; V. 2, pp. 746-748
Schmauk, V. 1, pp. 287-289
Glatfelter, V. 1, pp. 320-321
Record Locations:
Church records, 1733 to date,
are held by congregation and include baptisms, 1733+, marriages, and burials,
1921+.
Microfilm
of original records, 1733-1869, GSP, LTS-P.
Church records, 1733-1869,
translation by Rev. Melville Schmoyer, 1941. LCHS; LMHS; ACHS; SLP; NGS;
LTS-P.
Records of pastoral acts at
the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the Muddy Creek Church, East
Cocalico Township
1730-1790,
translated by Rev. William J. Hinke and Rev. Frederick S. Weiser.
Pennsylvania German Society, 1981.
Series:
Sources and documents of the Pennsylvania Germans: V.
See Records of John Casper
Stoever, Baptisms-Marriages, 1730-1796, indexed. Baltimore, Genealogical
Publishing Co.,
1982.
See Pastoral records of Rev.
Benjamin g. Welder, 1886-1921. Welder was pastor here during this
whole period. Original
manuscript
is held at the Salem Lutheran Church, Reamstown. Transcript by Rev.
Frederick S. Weiser. LCHS; LMHS;
LTS-P;
NGS. A. Hunter Rineer, Jr.
Peace United Church of Christ, founded 1731/32
(Formerly called Muddy Creek Reformed Church)
(Formerly a Reformed Church)
South of Pa. Rt. 272 on Pa. Rt. 897, west of
Adamstown.
History
1731/32 Baptismal records
begun and first log church built.
1744 Land acquired jointly
with Lutherans at site 1 above.
1747 Second church built of
stone.
1847 Third church built of
stone.
1871-1914 Sunday School chapels
built at Muddy Creek (Grace Chapel), Reinholds, Shimps, and Stonehill.
1938/39 Fourth church built
of brick.
1968 Union with Lutherans
dissolved and congregation merged with St. Paul's Church of Adamstown.
New Congregation adopted name, "Peace".
1970 Present church built.
Classics of Lancaster, pp. 168-182
Dedicatory brochure, Peace Church, 1970.
Ellis and Evans, pp. 712-713.
Hinke, Hist. of Muddy Creek Congr.
Hist. Sketches of Cocalico, pp. 37-38
Klein, V. 2, pp. 746-749
Glatfelter,
V. 1. pp 320-321.
Hinke, History of the Cocalico Charge
Record Locations:
Church record book, 1730-1765,
is held by the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Church records, 1766 to date,
are held by congregation, and include baptisms, 1766+; catechumens, 1767-1777;
marriages, 1766-1779; burials;
and communicants, 1767-1875 (with breaks).
Church records, 1743-1781,
translated by Rev. William J. Hinke. E&RHS.
Records of pastoral acts at
the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the Muddy Creek Church, East
Cocalico
Township,
1730-1790, translated by Rev. William J. Hinke and Rev. Frederick S. Weiser.
Pennsylvania German
Society,
1981. Series: Sources and Documents of the Pennsylvania Germans:
V.
See Pastoral records of John
Waldschmidt, 1752-1786. Waldschmidt was pastor here during part of
that period.
Translated
by Luther R. Kelker in Pennsylvania Archives, 6th Series, V. 6,
pp. 153+. Translation by William J. Hinke,
E&RHS.
See Pastoral records of Rev.
Stephen Schweitzer, 1868-1914, and Rev. Martin Schweitzer, 1914-1937.
The Schweitzers
were
pastors here, 1871-1937. Original records are at the Swamp United
Church of Christ, West Cocalico Township,
1985.
See Marriages Performed by
Rev. Daniel Hertz, 1823-1868. Hertz was pastor here 1822-1867.
Transcript, LCHS;
E&RHS.
Records of the former St.
Paul's united Church of Christ, Adamstown, 1911-1968, are held by the congregation
since
the
merger in 1968.
The church information is from Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, A Complete Guide by A. Hunter Rineer, Jr.
pages 109 and 110.
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