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Lutheran congregation of the city · organized 1891 · state contested in the record
What the record shows: The genealogical society's church list carries Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wayne Township, organized 1891, with its records at the Allen County Public Library — among them the records of St. John's Lutheran Church of Marion Township, which disbanded in 1880 and placed its registers with Grace. Grace appears again in the record as a receiver of people: when St. John's of Soest, the Marion Township congregation, finally closed in 1907, its remaining members joined Grace Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.
Present state, printed as a conflict: The genealogical society's list carries Grace as active. The published history of Emmanuel Soest, however, states that Grace "has itself since closed." No source this gazetteer could reach settles the contradiction, and it is printed unsettled: Grace Lutheran of 1891 is either a living congregation or a closed one whose closing the lists have not caught up with, and only the synod directories can settle it.
Sources:
- Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana, church list: "Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wayne Township, 1891, active"; the St. John's of Marion Township entry (records with Grace).
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church (Soest), "Our History" (the 1907 reception of St. John's members; Grace "has itself since closed").