St. John UCC, Manchester
(ESNA—Evangelical Synod of North America)
Genealogical DataThe following indexes and/or records from this congregation are available: Confirmations from 1878 to 1928 Deaths recorded from 1886 to 1965 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 indexed data from these records may be available; please come to the StLGS office to view it. As privacy limits permit, society volunteers will post additional data online. HistoryEstablished: 1860 Reverend Johannes Friedrich Koewing, pastor of the Zion German Evangelical Church on Ballas Road, helped to establish this congregation. German immigrants founded this congregation in 1860 as the United Evangelical Church of Manchester. They purchased a small, one-room brick building on School Street, now Sulphur Springs Road. They provided a German and English school that met there until the public school started. After the Civil War, the congregation changed their name to St. Johannes Evangelical Church. In 1868 they built a larger, brick church located just south of their cemetery on Sulphur Spring Road. In 1873 the congregation joined the Evangelical Synod of the West (now Evangelical Synod of North America.) It was not until 1910 that the minister delivered his first sermon in English. In 1927 the church purchased land at the top of the hill on Old Sulphur Spring Road for a new church site with a view of their old church and cemetery. They completed building a new parsonage in 1928. In 1951 the congregation built a new red-brick church there. They razed the old church building in 1952 to make more room for burials in the cemetery. After a merger of congregations in 1957, the church became a member of the United Church of Christ. Address: 332 Old Sulphur Spring Road, Manchester, Missouri 63121 Telephone: 636-391-6655 Website: St. John UCC Website Location 1860-1868: 332 Old Sulphur Spring Road, Manchester, Missouri 63121 St. John Evangelical, Manchester GPS (Latitude, Longitude): 38.589436, -90.51883 View Map Location 1868-: 332 Old Sulphur Spring Road, Manchester, Missouri 63121 St. John UCC, Manchester GPS (Latitude, Longitude): 38.589436, -90.51883 View Map |
St. John UCC Manchester Photos by Donald A Wallace
Old St. John Evangelical Manchester Photo from Eden Theological Seminary Archives
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St. John UCC in Manchester has two cemeteries associated with the congregation. In 1860 the St. John Evangelical Cemetery (Old) was established at 258 Old Sulphur Spring Road, next to the first church. The old church building was torn down in 1952 to enlarge the cemetery and a new cemetery section was added at 279 Old Sulphur Spring Road, closer to the new building. This section became known as the (New) St. John United Church of Christ Cemetery.
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09-Mar-2023 11:00