Churches  of  Shelby  County  Indiana

St. George  Lutheran

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Chadwick's History of Shelby Co., Ind.                161

          The Lutheran church was formed in Jackson township by a class which met about 1847 or 1848 the first time. Meetings were held at various resi-

Chadwick's History of Shelby Co., Ind.                162

dences and at the district school-house. Sometime during the forties, what is know as St. George s Lutheran church was established, and a thirty-six by forty foot frame building provided in which to worship. This stood two miles south of Mt. Auburn. In the sixties a brick edifice was built at a cost of five thousand dollars. In 1887 there was a membership of one hundred and twenty. This church organization is still in existence, but the membership is unknown to the writer.
Chadwick's History of Shelby County, Indiana, by Edward H. Chadwick, B.A., assisted by well known local talent, B.F. Bowen & Co, Publishers:  Indianapolis, IN, 1909, page 161-162.
Submitted by Marita Bolson


          Lutherans. ----   The first class of this denomination was organized in Jackson Township more than forty years ago.  The first meetings were held in the residences of the members and in the district school-house.  Early in the forties, what is now known as St. George's Lutheran Church was established, and a frame building probably 36x40 feet in dimensions was erected on the line of the Edinburg & Flatrock pike, two miles south of Mt. Auburn.  The early members were:  George Warner,  B. Brooks,  A. J. Treaon [Treon],  Daniel Heck,  Peter Borry,  Lewis Snepp.  The leading early ministers were:  Revs. Rudesill,  Laudslager  and  Hinkle.  Later the church was served by Revs. Levengood,  Graundt,  Fairchilds,  Wesner  and  J. H. Link.  The old frame church building gave place, late in the sixties, to the present brick edifice, which was completed at a cost of about $5,000.  The membership at present is 120.
          [The next paragraph is about St. Paul's Lutheran Church-pmf]
History of Shelby County, Indiana, Brant & Fuller, 1887, page 399.
Copied by Phyllis Miller Fleming


          The Olive Branch Synod of the Lutheran Church of Southern Indiana will be in session at  St. George's Church, Jackson Township, Shelby county, four miles east of Edinburg, from Tuesday evening, October 9th to Monday, October 15.
          On Thursday, the  11th of October, the Womans Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Synod will hold its convention -- afternoon and night.
          Friday, the 12th, will be devoted to the Sunda School work.
          All are invited to attend the conventions.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming