Jacob's Lutheran Cemetery
Jacob's Lutheran Cemetery
Jacob's Lutheran Cemetery
Across the street from the remnants of Jacob's Lutheran Church.
Jacob's Lutheran Cemetery
Jacob's Lutheran Cemetery
Just south of Wooster, in Franklin Township, lies the remnants of one of Wayne County’s German community’s early legacies: Jacob’s German Lutheran Church. The church was established in 1844, after seven families from the original Die Freidens’ Kirche displayed dissatisfaction with the English-leanings of Reverend Weygandt’s congregation and decided to separate to form their own.1 They built their modest one-room church on land donated by church member Jacob Herman and soon acquired Reverend Kline as their preacher.2 While the church was essentially abandoned sometime before 1870, one can still visit and marvel at the original foundation and cemetery of the old church. It is located at the junction of Oil City Road and East Messner Road, about a ten minute drive from downtown Wooster.
1 Jess Ewing, History of Jacobs and Trinity Lutheran Churches, Wayne County, Ohio (1990), 1.
2 Bonnie S. Wipert, Church Histories of Wayne County, Ohio (1987), 51.