Weigle’s Lutheran and Reformed church is situated at Hooversville. The Lutheran congregation was organized by Rev. William Kopp in 1848. The original members were:
Samuel Swank
D. Bepley and wife
Emanuel Lohr and wife
Valentine Lohr and wife
John Weigle and wife
Conrad Wolford and wife
Emanuel Wolford
Samuel Wolford
Thomas Lohr and wife
Samuel Lohr and wife
Jonathan Joder and wife
Michael Bepley
Thomas Crissey
Jacob Beaber and wife
Hannah and Eliza Crissey
May Peterman
J. Naugle and wife
Christian Coltenbaugh and wife
The first officers were Samuel Swank and Peter Boyer, elders; John Weigle and John Lohr, deacons. The first church edifice was erected in 1849, at a cost of $700. The present church is not finished. It is to be 40 X 60 feet, with a basement and a steeple. The cornerstone was laid in 1882. The church numbers one hundred and twenty members, and there are one hundred and eight sabbath-school scholars and teachers.
The pastors have been:
Rev. William Kopp
Rev. J. K. Bricker
Rev. John Bechtel
Rev. J. Beaver
Rev. J. B. Crist
Rev. A. R. Height
Rev. J. K. Bricker
Rev. R. Smith
Rev. J. H. Walterick
Rev. J. L. Miller
Rev. J. B. Shoup
Rev. John N. Unruh
The Reformed congregation of Weigle’s, or Hooversville church, was formerly supplied with preaching by the pastors of Beam’s charge and Stoystown; but in 1883 it became a regular portion of the Stoystown charge. The following pastors have ministered here:
Rev. A. B. Koplin, 1857—8
Rev. D. H. Reiter, 1859—67
Rev. James Grant, 1868
Rev. W. H. Bates, 1876—9
Rev. J. S. Wagner, 1879—83
Rev. W. D. Lefevre, 1883.
At present the congregation has forty members; the sabbath school about thirty.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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