Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery CC#4582
Also known as Oswald or Hoffer Cemetery

Northfield Drive East    Across from 2180   

German Company Tract Lot 52  Woolwich Township, Waterloo County, Ontario

Church history written and records translated by Samuel Weicker

St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, West Woolwich

 In the 1878 atlas of Waterloo County, the map of Woolwich township shows a church and cemetery on the southwest corner of county road 22 and regional road 86, four miles north of Conestogo and two miles east of Elmira.  Twenty names on the remaining tombstones in the cemetery correspond with names in the church book of the congregation, which was brought to the attention of Waterloo Region Branch by Lutzen Riedstra.  The contents of the Kirchenbuch are all in German script, some being unreadable.

The 83 memorials in the cemetery are neatly set in three long cemented channels.  The property has a frontage of 201 feet and a depth of 190 feet.  George Bowman of Floradale has been keeping it attractively trimmed for many years. Many memorials have deteriorated faces because of the soft material, which makes the inscriptions unreadable.  A group of OGS members made one transcription in 1990; another had been done earlier by Samuel Weicker.  Waterloo Region branch is particularly thankful to the late Mr Weicker for his efforts in producing the records of this vanished church.  As Mr Weicker had mentioned, the difficulty in reading these records and stones means that researchers should examine these transcriptions with care. 

May 1994

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