Description

• John’s Lutheran Church (Snyder) OGS #4700 – Located at 3375 Sodom Road, in the former Willoughby Township, Lot 25, adjoining Cross Concession, now in the Town of Fort Erie.
• John’s United Church (Snyder) OGS #4701 – Located at 3375 Sodom Road in the former Willoughby Township, Lot 25, adjoining Cross Concession, now in the Town of Fort Erie, and in former Township Lot 5, First Cross Concession, now in the City of Niagara Falls.
• In 1834, the St. Johannes Evangelische Kirche congregation was organized with Lutherans, Evangelical Reformed and Pennsylvania Dutch within its membership. In May, 1845, under the leadership of Rev, J. Althaus, a parcel of land on the east side of the Sodom Road almost opposite the church, was purchased from Michael Kronmueller. This was to be used for a cemetery and the owner reserved burial privileges for his family. In 1846, his son (by the same name) was the first person to be buried in this cemetery. In 1928, the name of St. Johannes Evangelische Kirche was changed to St. John’s Evangelical and later in 1956, to St. John’s United.

This document includes known transcriptions for 537 gravestones in all sections in the two adjoining cemeteries:

• the 2009 publication is transcribed by rows, indexed by page# (revised from 1984)
• the 1984 publication is transcribed and indexed by numbered gravestones
• an 1898 transcription (Emma Bossert) includes German and English inscription notes
• a list of burials at St. John’s United from 1995 to 2013 includes names and dates of death
• a list of burials includes year of death, row and plot numbers (unsourced).