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St John's Lutheran Cemetery
Prepared by Dorothy Schoenhals July 30, 2004
A warranty deed dated October 17, 1950 transferred land of one acre, more
or less from Jacob M and Amalia Koch to the St. John's Lutheran Church to
be used as a cemetery for the benefit of the same St. John's Lutheran
Church. The deed description states the land is on the northwest comer of
the east half of section 514 Block 43. (i)
Burial of church members was allowed with permission from the Koch
family as early as 1916. Searches of the county clerk records do not reflect
any earlier gifts of the land to be used for burial purposes. It is believed that
the Koch's decided to give the land to the church to make the cemetery a
legal entity in 1950. (2)
Lipscomb County was homesteaded by immigrants of German Russian
descent. The forefathers of these settlers left their native Germany to settle
primarily in the Volga River region around 1763. Catherine the Great, a
German born princess offered land to the industrious German settlers. The
Germans prospered for nearly a century in Russia. In the 1870's, Czar
Alexander 2nd started to remove the educational and church privileges
granted to the Germans by Catherine The Great, as well as conscripting the
German men to the Russian army. Groups of German colonists chose to
migrate to America. Eventually they migrated to Kansas, Oklahoma and the
Texas Panhandle where farmland was available. (3)
St. John's Church was developed from the desire of German-Russian
settlers around Lipscomb to have a church of their own rather than travel the
far distance to Christ Lutheran Church near Shattuck, Oklahoma. The
traveling missionary, Rev. G.K. Wiencke, a traveling missionary, spent
some time with the people of the Lipscomb area during a snowstorm. As a
result of the contacts he made and with the growth of the German
settlements around Lipscomb, a preaching point was established in the
Lipscomb area. At first the worship services were held in the homes of
families. The Church records then note that on Maundy Thursday April 9,
1914, the group held its first worship service in the Lipscomb School with
27 adults in attendance. Within a year, the members decided to build their
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Kraft, LaVaun. Lipscomb County Cemeteries, book, April 2006; Lipscomb, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth36168/m1/175/?q=waller+county: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wolf Creek Heritage Museum.