This church is on a county road one mile west of New Boston in Huff Township in Spencer County. It was founded in the year 1850. They originally intended to call the area Frankenthal (Franken Valley), but the name did not endure. These names and places are taken from the small book titled "Namenliste", a family directory, and the large book titled "Kirchbuch" 1854-1903. The Oberfranken (Upper Franconia) area is in northern Bavaria, and it is to the north of Nürnberg, which is in Mittelfranken (middle Franconia). Farther to the west is the area called Unterfranken (Lower Franconia). The term Landgericht means a district court. We might refer to a town with a "Landgericht" as a county or township seat. A town in parentheses is the place where the person was baptized and confirmed. These towns are not all under the same governmental jurisdictions today as they were when the church records were written. I could not locate some places even using my Haupka 1:100,000 scale map of the area, but the place names were quite plainly written.

(Mike Gramelspacher, Jr. gramelsp@psci.net)

BAUMEISTER née MEIER, 1826, Bassow (Bender), Mecklenburg-Schwerin

1. Friedrich STEIN + 24 Apr 1859
2. Anton BAUMEISTER, marr. by Friedensrichter (Justice of the Peace)

BETZHOLD née VOIT 1823 Sonnengrün bei Sophienthal, Landgericht Weidenberg, Oberfranken

BLUNCH 1847 Wesselburen, Schleswig-Holstein

BLUNCH née POHLMAN 1852 Minden Westphalen

BRAUN 1810 Langenreuth, Landgericht Schnabelwaid, Oberfranken

BRAUN née HERING 1815 Moritzreuth (Lindenhart) Bayreuth, Oberfranken

BRAUN née HEBERLEIN 1832 Weidensees (Betzenstein), Pegnitz, Oberfranken

ENDRES 1829 imm. 1858 Harthausen, Speyer, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria

ENDRESS imm. 1847 née SCHNITZLER Altdorf, Nürtingen, Württemberg

ENGELBRECHT née SCHLÄGER 1812 Neustadt am Kulm (written Eulm), Bayern

FOERSTER 1811 im. 1841Unterschwarzach (Hoch by Creußen), Schnabelwaid, Pegnitz, Oberfranken

FOERSTER 1825 Bieberswöhr, Pegnitz, Oberfranken

FOERSTER née VOGEL Affalterthal, Egloffstein, Oberfranken

FOERSTER née HERTEL 1801 Seybothenreuth (Weidenberg), Oberfranken

FOERSTER née WIEL 1835 Altenkünsberg (written Altenkiersberg), Pegnitz, Oberfranken

FOERTSCH 1826 Affalterthal, Gräfenberg, Oberfranken

FUCHS 1805 Kleebach, Bayreuth (could be Hinterkleebach)

FUCHS née GOLDFUSS (Goldfuß) 1815 Kleebach, Bayreuth

GEBHARD 1819 Oberölschnitz (Emtmannsberg), Pegnitz, Oberfranken

GEBHARD née VOIT 1816 Sonnengrün bei Sophienthal, Landgericht Weidenberg, Oberfranken

GRASS (GRASS) Selchow, Storkow, Brandenburg, Preußen

GROTHAUS (GROSSHAUS) 1872 Imm. 18Jul1881 Harpenfeld, Hannover

GROTHAUS née MARTLING (probably vicinity of Bad Essen, Osnabrück, Hannover)

HAESSIG 1831 Klimbach, Weißenburg, Elsaß

HAESSIG née SCHMIDT 1835 Gosen, Bayreuth, Oberfranken

HAFNER née SORGEL 1900 Heckenreuth (cannot find), Pottenstein

HECKEL 1823 Ottling (cannot find) bei Gräfenberg

HECKEL née DEINZER Leupoldstein, Landgericht Betzenstein (written Lepolstein. and Leipoldstein, Badenstein, Oberfranken)

HERING 1825 Moritzreuth, Bayreuth, Oberfranken

HERING née DISTLER 1822 Bieberbach, Gößweinstein, Oberfranken

HERING née KELLERIN 1786 Interried (cannot find)(Creußen) bei Bayreuth

HERMANNSDOERFER 1856 Donnhof (Eckersdorf), Bayreuth, Oberfranken

HUEBSCH 1831 arr 1847 Spänfleck (Haag), Bayreuth, Oberfranken

HUEBSCH geb VOIT 1829 Münchreuth (cannot find) , Weidenberg, Oberfranken

KRAUSE née HAHN 1825 Alsheim, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria

LAUTNER Eichenreuth (Gesees), Bayreuth, Oberfranken

LEISTNER 1826 Imm. 1848 Langenreuth (Lindenhardt), Schnabelwaid, Pegnitz

LEISTNER née UEBELHACK 1836 Moritzreuth, Bayreuth, Oberfranken

LINDENHARDT Dörnhof, Bayreuth, Oberfranken

LINDENHARDT née RABENSTEIN Busbach, Bayreuth, Oberfranken

MEIER 1820 Neudorf, Pegnitz, Oberfranken

MEIER née HERR 1852 Wiesbuch (not found), Landgericht Stadtsteinach, Oberfranken

MERTA 1828 Affalterthal, Gräfenberg, Oberfranken

MERTA née WITTMAN 1845 Schnabelwaid, Oberfranken

MERTA née ECKERT 1835 Nemschenreuth, Pegnitz, Oberfranken

MULZER 1832 Sophienthal, Landgericht Weidenberg, Oberfranken

NICOLAI née CLAUSSEN 1812 Wesselburen, Holstein

POLSTER 1814 imm. 1849 Egglofstein, Gräfenberg, Oberfranken

POLSTER née ZIEGLER 1821 Unterzaunsbach (Hetzelsdorf), Graefenburg, Oberfranken

PUERTZER 1827 Weidensees, Pegnitz, Oberfranken

PUERTZER née ECKERT Nemschenreuth, Pegnitz, Oberfranken

RIES Muthmannsreuth, Lindenhardt

SCHERZER 1825 Berolzheim, Landgericht Bad Windsheim, Mittelfranken

SCHERZER née HOFFMANN 1825 Altheim, Bad Windsheim, Unterfranken

SCHMIDT 1837 Gosen, Bayreuth, Oberfranken

SCHMIDT née FRANK 1809 Hohenfichten, Bayreuth, Oberfranken

SCHULTHEIS 1845 Forst, Seybothenreuth (Weidenberg), Oberfranken

SPAETH Bronn (written Brun), Pegnitz, Oberfranken

STACH 1833 Herzogtum Mähren, Oestereich (Duchy of Moravia, Austria)

UEBELHACK 1822 Hinterkleebach, Bayreuth, Oberfranken

VOGEL 1788 Voita, Oberfranken

VOGEL 1826 Affalterthal, Gräfenberg, Oberfranken

VOGEL née MANN Bieberswöhr

VOGEL née DAUT 1835 Affalterthal, Gräfenberg, Oberfranken

WITTMAN 1831 imm. 1853 Preunersfeld (Creußen) Landgericht Pegnitz, Oberfranken

(some others) Schnabelwaid, Oberfranken

WITTMAN née GROSSMAN (Großman) 1837 Mistelbach, Bayreuth, Oberfranken

WITTMAN née WEIGEL 1833 Mistelbach, Bayreuth, Oberfranken

WITTMAN née PREUSS (Preuß)1817 Altencreußen, Pegnitz, Oberfranken

WOLF 1834 Beutelsbach, Oberamt (Upper court) Schorndorf, Württemberg

WOELFEL (WÖLFEL) 1838 Schönlind, Rehau, Oberfranken

WOELFEL née KLIER 1835 Schildern (cannot find), Asch, Böhmen (Bohemia)