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own church. The building for St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church was
begun in October 1916 and the dedication was held in June 1917. In 1961,
the St. John's Church merged with the St Paul's Lutheran Church in
Darrouzett, Texas. (3) A quitclaim deed is attached that indicates the transfer
to St Paul's.
The first burial was baby Hildegard Schilling January 11, 1916. Three other
Schilling children were buried in the next six years. The Schilling parents
erected a unique four cornered tombstone standing tall with the names of
their buried children inscribed on each side. Homemade stones mark the
graves of two other infants who were buried in the early 1920's. There are
fifteen children's burials in the cemetery during the 1920's and the
depression years of the 1930's. These deaths reflect the hard times suffered
by the early Lipscomb settlers.
Fiels, Herbers, Kappel, Koch, Meller, Stable, Babitzke are some of the
many German Russian names marked on the tombstones. Victor Born, a
charter member of the Church, made the welded iron name of the cemetery
in approximately 1949. It originally was marked with red reflector tape that
revealed the name when car headlights passed by. (2) The tape has been
removed and the iron name marker is a sturdy monument to the beauty of
this country cemetery.
The administrator of the cemetery is Ervin Koch, a grandson of the cemetery
land donor. Recently, Kellie Koch Kjos, a great granddaughter assisted
Ervin in plotting the cemetery lots. The cemetery is well maintained and
provides for free burials for family church members.
There are 94 graves in the beautiful rural cemetery and each grave has a
permanent marker. The Lipscomb County Historical Society and Lavaun
Kraft, an interested volunteer, contacted family members of four of the only
unmarked graves to notify them of the fact that these graves were in danger
of becoming lost. In every case, the families responded and now the
permanent markers are a testimony to the families desire to insure that their
loved ones grave sites do not become lost in time.
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Kraft, LaVaun. Lipscomb County Cemeteries, book, April 2006; Lipscomb, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth36168/m1/176/?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.