St. Salvador Lutheran Cemetery
Venedy, Venedy Township, Washington County, Illinois

 

St. Salvador Lutheran

Photo by : Lynn Snyder		Photo furnished by : Lynn Snyder
Photo by : Lynn Snyder
"St Salvator Lutheran Church in Venedy shown with Rev. Wm Steinmann and his congregation around 1901. The church was founded in 1842, and the present church was built in 1863 and 1865 at a cost of $5000." St. Salvador Lutheran, Venedy, IL [1842]: German Lutherans settled in the vicinity of Venedy, then called Elkhorn Prairie, in 1938-39. They were interested in obtaining a Lutheran pastor. Occasional trips were made to St. Louis to sell their produce and buy supplies. On one of these trips they met members of a group of Saxon Lutherans who had come to St. Louis in 1839. Through these people they got in contact with Dr. F. C. Walther, who was intrumental in providing a pastor for them in the person of Rev. Ottomar Fuebringer. Pastor Fuerbinger organized these Germans into a Lutheran congregation in 1840. The worship services were held in the village of Johannisburg, in a building that doubled for church and school. Dissension rose among the members on matters of Christian doctrine and practice; part of the congregation remained faithful to the Lutheran Confessions and seceded from this congregation in 1842, and organized the San Salvador Lutheran congregation in the village of Venedy.

 

The above 3 photos by : Marie Hinton

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Tombstone Photos & Data were furnished by : Lynn Snyder

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B A C K S   HENRY W. BACKS OCT. 22, 1868 FEB. 22, 1956 FATHER Son of : Frederick Backs & Louise Martelsmeier		B A C K S   CAROLINE BACKS DEC. 30, 1870 AUG. 12, 1944 MOTHER nee : HELMKAMP Married : Henry W. BACKS

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St. Salvator Lutheran Cemetery
Complete Transcription List
of Tombstones existing as of December 2001

Read and copyrighted by Dorothy Falk and Gloria Dettleff - December 2001.

For any comments, questions, or complete copies. You may contact the Secretary of Marissa Historical and Genealogy Society       E-Mail her at : Kay Jetton

   St. Salvator Cemetery lies adjacent to the St. Salvator Lutheran Church in 
   the village of Venedy, Venedy Township, Washington County, IL - T1S R5W.  
   This cemetery dates back to the beginning of the church in the early 1840s.  
 
   For the purpose of this listing there are 29 rows of graves in two sections.  
   The Old Section consists of Rows 1 through 13 with Row 1 being the 
   farthest  East Row.  Grave numbering runs from South to North in the Old Section.  
   The first stone close to the rear of the church is grave 
   number one with numbers increasing towards the neighbor's driveway.  
   Rows 14 through 29 of the New Section have graves running North to South 
   starting near the garage of the house behind the cemetery and continuing towards 
   the cemetery's horseshoe drive.   This allows for the possible addition 
   of more graves to the ends of all rows.  

   Grave number one in each row of the Old Section is the first tombstone still 
   standing at the time of this reading.  Allowance was made for obvious 
   unmarked graves.  For these reasons grave numbers do not necessarily line 
   up from row to row in the Old Section.  Rows 5 and 6 have no visible 
   markers remaining, however, local residents report that in the 1940s there were 
   wooden crosses still standing.  These two unmarked rows most 
   probably contain the victims of the typhoid and cholera epidemics of the 1840s.  
   All of the old tombstones are written in German, which has 
   been translated to the best of our ability for your convenience.  
   Often the 1800s script style was used on the tombstones making deciphering 
   more difficult.  

   Due to these factors errors can be expected.    

   S/w = shares stone with