Stoystown Reformed church is a very old organization. The exact date of its formation cannot be ascertained, but from baptismal records we learn that Rev. H. Giese was pastor in 1799. The following are the names of parents whose children were baptized at an early date:
Michael and Anna Maria Peterman
Philip and Barbara Kacker
Ludwig and Elizabeth Rupp
Conrad and Christiana Tisch
Jacob and Christiana Fronhauser
Christian and Eva Spangler
Jacob and Anna M. Baker
Michael and Elizabeth Zimmerman
Conrad and Maria Hite
John McWiller
Michael and Anna M. Wolford
John and Maria Lambert
George and Elizabeth Lambert
John and Phoebe Frey
Michael and Susanna Ross
The pastors have been:
Rev. H. Giese, 1799—1835
Rev. W. Conrad, 1835—53
Rev. J. Hoyman, 1853
Rev. A. B. Koplin, 1857—8
Rev. D. H. Reiter, 1859—67
Rev. A. J. Heller, 1865
Rev. H. F. Keener (supply), 1870
Rev. W. H. Bates, 1876—9
Rev. J. S. Wagner, 1879—83
Rev. W. D. Lefevre, 1883.
The congregation formerly worshiped in an old log church (Reformed, and Lutheran) situated in the cemetery east of the town. The present church is an old frame building, capable of seating about three hundred persons, with steeple, bell and organ. Present membership: church, eighty-one; sabbath school, fifty.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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