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The Hector Moravian Congregation
The History of Renville County, Volume 2
Compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge
Chapter XL
p. 1275

The Hector Moravian Congregation was the outgrowth of the Elim Moravian Congregation in Melville township. The Elim congregation was organized by the Rev. Theodore Sondermann of Carver county, February 7, 1882. Five years later, January 18, 1887, the Hector congregation was organized by the Rev. Henry Reusswig with the following charter members: Rev. and Mrs. Henry Reusswig, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wolff, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Raitz, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Raitz, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Weber, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Maag, Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Wolff, Mr. and Mrs. Berthold Albert, Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Koehler, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scheel, Theo. Albert, Carl Schug, Mrs. Otto Wolff, Mrs. Waldo Lovering, Lydia Maag and Johanna Koehler.

The first marriage performed in the Hector church was that of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wolff, on February 26, 1890. The first burial in the old Moravian cemetery was that of Arthur Stengel, son of the Rev. C. W. Stengel. The cemetery now known as the Moravian cemetery was dedicated June 29, 1890, the same day that the Rev. Henry Reusswig was buried in it. The deed of the cemetery is vested with "The Board of Elders of the Northern Diocese of the Church of the United Brethren in the United States of America."


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