![]() ![]() Louise Breford and children knitted stockings for every member of the family before they made the trip to Oklahoma. William Breford and his wife, Marie Louise Lubbert, moved to their farm, 2 1/2 miles southwest of Alva now the Harold Wiersig farm. This was a frame building used for church and later moved to Second and Maple where it was used as a school. He also helped on the building committee. In 1900 William Breford was on a committee to help buy the two lots where the present church stands for $50. A great flood kept some of the Lutherans living north of the Salt Fork from attending the meeting, so only thirteen were present to sign the constitution, including William Breford, Wm. They first met in the upper room of a store over Schuhmacher Drug Store. The three men helped organize the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Alva on May 21, 1899. Schaefer and their families waited until March 1, 1899, to bring their families together on the same train. Mauntel and wife came in September, 1898, to Alva because of his health, but Mr. They returned to Indiana to get things ready to move. Mauntel came in 1898 to purchase homesteads, and to decide where to live permanently. From the Pioneer Footprints Across Woods County biography of Friedrich Wilhelm Brefordįriedrich Wilhelm Breford, called William, William Schaefer, and C.H. They had eight children: Anna born in indiana on 17 December 1882 Eleonora, born in Indiana on 6 June 1885 Elisabeth, born in Indiana on Friedrich, born in Indiana on 22 July 1889 Ida, born in Indiana Lorina, born in Indiana on 7 September 1897 Ernst, born in Oklahoma on 4 july 1900 and Emma, born in Oklahoma on and died 17 April 1903. Wilhelm Breford, Son of Friedrich Breford, was born in Indiana on 12 June 1856 and his wife Louise, daughter of Jobst Luebbert, was born in Indiana on. Zion Lutheran Church – Alva Membership 1904 p.1 Member Biographies Friedrich Wilhelm and Marie Louise (Lubbert) Breford From the Zion Lutheran Church – Alva 1904 membership records And, the US Census records for the years 19 that bracketed the 1904 date were used to identify families for which no biographies could be found. For those member families not in these two books, biographies and obituaries from were used where available. 1886-1986″ were the biography sources for most member families. ![]() The two books, “Pioneer Footprints Across Woods County” and the “The First 100 Years of Alva, Oklahoma. A membership list of the Zion Lutheran Church – Alva was compiled when Zion was about five years old probably by Pastor Herman Meyer who was the pastor from 1901 until 1914.īiographies of the members were included here to give the stories of the members. ![]()
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