Pastor Keibel's Diary
by Frank R. Griepp
Contributed by
Martha A Crosley Graham
Librarian
San Luis Obispo County Genealogical Society

This is the pastor's record of the funerals conducted by the Reverand Albert Keibel, from 1876 to 1889.  He was the pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church of Cooperstown, WI, now located in the village of Maribel, Manitowoc County, WI.  The church was organized in 1855, as a member of the Buffalo, N.Y. Synod; it appears to have only visiting ministers until Reverend Keibel became its first regular pastors.  During his pastorate the chuch was very slowly going through the process of disassociating itself from the Buffalo Synod, and joining the Wisconsin Synod, which process possibly was not completed until 1889.  This this diary covery the period when a procedure for reporting ceremonnial data to synodical headquarters was not in effect, and so it is quite possible that this diary, hand-written in German script, is the only record of funerals conducted at this church from December 1876 to November 1889.  All of the German place names of origin are villages in Northern Germany, known then as Pommern or Pomerania,, later a part of Prussia.  Today most of this area is in Western Poland.  The translation of the diary, omitting much which is not of genealogical interest, follows.

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