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Ebenezer Congregational Church - Sheboygan

Following a meeting that was held 14 June 1911, a congregation was organized as "Erste Deutsche Evangelische Lutherische Kongretionalen Ebenezer Gemeinde." The congregation was received into membership of the Congregational Church and student George Graf was ordained as first pastor. In 1912, the lot was purchased for $860 from John & Mary Müller and the church cornerstone was laid on 3 November 1912 and the building constructed at a cost of $16,000. The new facility was dedicated on Pentecost Sunday in 1913. The Rev.

Berger (Orlovskaya)*

The marriage of Johann Friedrich Berger and widow Friederika Louisa Weylandt née Götz is recorded in the parish register of Coswig on 8 April 1766. It reads as follows:

8 April 1766 - Johann Friedrich Berger Mauermeister und kaiserl. Russischer Kolonist, weil. Joh. Friedrich Bergers Gastwirts in Kisterwitz bey Weissenfels nachgel. ehel. ältester Sohn und Fr. Friederika Louisa verwitwete Weylandt gebohrne Götz in hiesiger Kirche getrauet worden.