Numidia Bible Fellowship Cemetery
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Numidia Bible Fellowship Cemetery

Also known as St. Paul's Reformed Cemetery, St. Paul's UCC Cemetery, Saint Paul's Reformed Cemetery, Saint Paul's UCC Cemetery

Numidia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, USA

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St. Paul's Union Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery was established in the early 19th century alongside St. Paul's Union Church, which originally served both Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the area's German settlers.

Religious services in the area were first held around 1806 in the barn of Johan Helwig, and the congregations formally organized in 1815 under Rev. Jacob Dieffenbach. The first brick church was built on land purchased from Jacob Kline and dedicated on July 5, 1816, but not completed until about 1831. The current brick building was constructed at the site in 1870. Tensions between the Lutheran and Reformed congregations over property and Sunday school use, however, soon led to a split, and the Lutherans built a separate church nearby in 1889.

The church and cemetery received its current name in 2016 when it elected was made to leave the UCC church and go independent, becoming the Numidia Valley Bible Fellowship. A registry of older graves, including some that are today hardly legible, was completed by Grant and Martha Schadle and can be consulted on the website of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.

St. Paul's Union Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery was established in the early 19th century alongside St. Paul's Union Church, which originally served both Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the area's German settlers.

Religious services in the area were first held around 1806 in the barn of Johan Helwig, and the congregations formally organized in 1815 under Rev. Jacob Dieffenbach. The first brick church was built on land purchased from Jacob Kline and dedicated on July 5, 1816, but not completed until about 1831. The current brick building was constructed at the site in 1870. Tensions between the Lutheran and Reformed congregations over property and Sunday school use, however, soon led to a split, and the Lutherans built a separate church nearby in 1889.

The church and cemetery received its current name in 2016 when it elected was made to leave the UCC church and go independent, becoming the Numidia Valley Bible Fellowship. A registry of older graves, including some that are today hardly legible, was completed by Grant and Martha Schadle and can be consulted on the website of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.

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