This church is on a county road one mile west of New Boston in Huff Township in Spencer County. It was founded in the year 1850. The original intention was to call the area Frankenthal (Franconia Valley), but the name did not endure. These names and places are taken from the small book titled "Namenliste", a family directory, and the large book titled "Kirchbuch" 1854-1903. The Oberfranken (Upper Franconia) area is in northern Bavaria, and it is to the north of Nürnberg, which is in Mittelfranken (middle Franconia). Farther to the west is the area called Unterfranken (Lower Franconia). The term Landgericht means a district court. We might refer to a town with a "Landgericht" as a county or township seat. A town in parentheses is the place where the person was baptized and confirmed. These towns are not all under the same governmental jurisdictions today as they were when the church records were written. I could not locate some places even using my Haupka 1:100,000 scale map of the area.
(Mike Gramelspacher, Jr. gramelsp@psci.net)BRAUN 1810 Langenreuth, Landgericht Schnabelwaid, Oberfranken
BRAUN née HERING 1815 Moritzreuth (Lindenhart) Bayreuth, Oberfranken
BRAUN née HEBERLEIN 1832 Weidensees (Betzenstein), Pegnitz, Oberfranken
ENDRES 1829 im. 1858 Harthausen, Speyer, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria
ENDRESS im. 1847née SCHNITZLER Altdorf, Nürtingen, Württemberg
ENGELBRECHT née SCHLÄGER 1812 Neustadt am Kulm (written Culm), Bayern
FOERSTER 1811 im. 1841Unterschwarzach (Hoch by Creußen), Schnabelwaid, Pegnitz, Oberfranken
FOERSTER 1825 Bieberswöhr, Pegnitz, Oberfranken
FOERSTER née VOGEL Affalterthal, Egloffstein, Oberfranken
FOERSTER née HERTEL 1801 Seybothenreuth (Weidenberg), Oberfranken
FOERSTER née WIEL 1835 Altenkünsberg (written Altenkiersberg), Pegnitz, Oberfranken
FOERTSCH 1826 Affalterthal, Gräfenberg, Oberfranken
FUCHS 1805 Kleebach, Bayreuth (could be Hinterkleebach)
FUCHS née GOLDFUSS (Goldfuß) 1815 Kleebach, Bayreuth
GEBHARD 1819 Oberölschnitz (Emtmannsberg), Pegnitz, Oberfranken
GEBHARD née VOIT 1816 Sonnengrün bei Sophienthal, Landgericht Weidenberg, Oberfranken
GRASS (GRAß) Selchow, Storkow, Brandenburg, Preußen
GROTHAUS 1872 Imm. 18Jul1881 Harpenfeld, Hannover
GROTHAUS née MARTLING (probably vicinity of Bad Essen, Osnabrück, Hannover)
HAESSIG 1831 Klimbach, Weißenburg, Elsaß
HAESSIG née SCHMIDT 1835 Gosen, Bayreuth, Oberfranken
HAFNER née SORGEL 1900 Heckenreuth (cannot find), Pottenstein (maybe Eckenreuth, Betzenstein)
HECKEL 1823 Ottling (cannot find, only see Lilling) bei Gräfenberg
HECKEL née DEINZER Leupoldstein, Landgericht Betzenstein
(written Lepolstein. and Leipoldstein, Badenstein, Oberfranken)HERING 1825 Moritzreuth, Bayreuth, Oberfranken
HERING née DISTLER 1822 Bieberbach, Gößweinstein, Oberfranken
HERING née KELLERIN 1786 Interried (cannot find)(Creußen) bei Bayreuth
HERMANNSDOERFER 1856 Donnhof (Eckersdorf), Bayreuth, Oberfranken
HUEBSCH 1831 arr 1847 Spänfleck (Haag), Bayreuth, Oberfranken
HUEBSCH née VOIT 1829 Münchreuth( cannot find) , Weidenberg, Oberfranken
KRAUSE née HAHN 1825 Alsheim, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria
LAUTNER Eichenreuth (Gesees), Bayreuth, Oberfranken
LEISTNER 1826 Im. 1848 Langenreuth (Lindenhardt), Schnabelwaid, Pegnitz
LEISTNER née UEBELHACK 1836 Moritzreuth, Bayreuth, Oberfranken
LINDENHARDT Dörnhof, Bayreuth, Oberfranken
LINDENHARDT née RABENSTEIN Busbach, Bayreuth, Oberfranken
MEIER 1820 Neudorf, Pegnitz, Oberfranken
MEIER née HERR 1852 Wiesbuch (not found), Landgericht Stadtsteinach, Oberfranken
MERTA 1828 Affalterthal, Gräfenberg, Oberfranken
MERTA née WITTMAN 1845 Schnabelwaid, Oberfranken
MERTA née ECKERT 1835 Nemschenreuth, Pegnitz, Oberfranken
MULZER 1832 Sophienthal, Landgericht Weidenberg, Oberfranken
NICOLAI née CLAUSSEN 1812 Wesselburen, Holstein
POLSTER 1814 im. 1849 Egloffstein, Gräfenberg, Oberfranken
POLSTER née ZIEGLER 1821 Unterzaunsbach (Hetzelsdorf), Graefenburg, Oberfranken
PUERTZER 1827 Weidensees, Pegnitz, Oberfranken
PUERTZER née ECKERT Nemschenreuth, Pegnitz, Oberfranken
RIES Muthmannsreuth, Lindenhardt, Oberfranken
SCHERZER 1825 Berolzheim, Landgericht Bad Windsheim, Mittelfranken
SCHERZER née HOFFMANN 1825 Altheim, Bad Windsheim, Unterfranken
SCHMIDT 1837 Gosen, Bayreuth, Oberfranken
SCHMIDT née FRANK 1809 Hohenfichten, Bayreuth, Oberfranken
SCHULTHEIS 1845 Forst, Seybothenreuth (Weidenberg), Oberfranken
SPAETH Bronn (written Brun), Pegnitz, Oberfranken
STACH 1833 Herzogtum Mähren, Oestereich (Duchy of Moravia, Austria)
UEBELHACK 1822 Hinterkleebach, Bayreuth, Oberfranken
VOGEL 1788 Voita, Oberfranken
VOGEL 1826 Affalterthal, Gräfenberg, Oberfranken
VOGEL née MANN Bieberswöhr. Oberfranken
VOGEL née DAUT 1835 Affalterthal, Gräfenberg, Oberfranken
WITTMAN 1831 imm. 1853 Preunersfeld (Creußen) Landgericht Pegnitz, Oberfranken
(some others) Schnabelwaid, OberfrankenWITTMAN née GROSSMAN (Großman) 1837 Mistelbach, Bayreuth, Oberfranken
WITTMAN née WEIGEL 1833 Mistelbach, Bayreuth, Oberfranken
WITTMAN née PREUSS (Preuß)1817 Altencreußen, Pegnitz, Oberfranken
WOLF 1834 Beutelsbach, Oberamt (Upper court) Schorndorf, Württemberg
WOELFEL (WÖLFEL) 1838 Schönlind, Rehau, Oberfranken
WOELFEL née KLIER 1835 Schildern( cannot find), Asch, Böhmen (Bohemia)