Gartman Church Records
Church
Records
South
Carolina
The following information was abstracted from the S.C. Historical and
Genealogical
Magazine 1946 Volume 47 pages 195-200.The article was contributed
by Paul
Quattlebaum.The original document is located in the Office of
the Historical Commission
of South Carolina.
In 1788 many people from the 'Back Country' of South Carolina
filed a petition asking the SC
Government to allow their Churches to be Incorporated.They asked
that the name of their
various churches be known as The Ecclesiastical Union of the
Several German Protestant
Congregations Dispersed Abroad In the back parts of the State
of South Carolina.
One of the congregations was known as 'The German Lutheran Church
of St. Peter on 18
Mile Creek'.Among the signers of the petition for that Church
on January 5,1788 were:
George Gartman -listed as an elder
Danl. Gartman and
Philip Gartman
Another Congregation was known as 'The German Lutheran Church
of Bethel on High Hill
Creek.The petition for this church was signed on January 4,1788.Among
the signers were:
Johan P. Gartman -(Tom Atkinson has raised the possibility that
the P. was a misread X(mark)
and I tend to agree.)
Bartholome X(his mark) Gartman
Frederick August Wallberg was the Minister of the Gospel for both of
these churches.
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