Bethel United Methodist Church, Wildwood

Genealogical Data

Records from this church from the nineteenth century are, for the most part, missing. However, information about church subscribers was first published in the St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly, volume 29, number 2, pages 47 and 48, in 1996. Access this early information here.

Subscribers to the church in 1873

The following indexed records from this congregation in the twentieth century are now available:

Baptisms from 1910 to 1921

Marriages from 1912, 1936 to 1954, and 1957 to 1976

Deaths from 1957 to 1971

Pastors from 1911 to 1979

StLGS is following state guidelines for privacy wherever possible. Births/baptisms online must be at least one hundred years old; confirmations eighty-six years old; marriages forty-five years old; and deaths fifty years old. Additional data from these records is available; please come to the StLGS office to view it. As privacy limits permit, society volunteers will post additional data online.

History

Photo by Donald A Wallace © 2011
(Used with permission)

Established 1858; still open in 2016

In 1858, Methodists living in Meramec Township built a rock church on Hardt Road and Wild Horse Creek Road. They worshiped there for fifteen years as the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church South. In 1873, St. Louis Marble Company donated seven acres to the founders of the church, who were looking for a new place to erect a building and establish a cemetery. The group completed building a new white frame church in 1875. The congregation added an extension to the church in 1993. The small rural church continues to serve its members in the growing West County area.

Address: 17500 Manchester Road, Wildwood, Missouri 63038

Telephone: 636-458-2255

Website: www.bethelunitedmethodist.org/

1858–1875: Hardt and Wild Horse Creek Roads, Wildwood, Missouri

GPS (Latitude, Longitude): 38.5845816, -90.688713 View Map

1875–Present: 17500 Manchester Road, Wildwood, Missouri 63038

GPS (Latitude, Longitude): 38.5819976, -90.6662381 View Map