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Memorials	:	1
Location	:	Dallas, Gaston County, USA
Coordinate	:	35.3554580, -81.1591980
Description	:	NOTE: The present site of the Philadelphia Evangelical Lutheran Church and cemetery was established after the flood of 1916. The former location of the church and its cemetery is about 3-4 miles from the present church and cemetery and includes burials PRIOR to the flood of 1916. For those burials, researchers should look to that cemetery, known as Kastner's Church Cemetery, a/k/a Adam Kastner Cemetery. The Adam Kastner Cemetery is the location of the old burial grounds for this congregation before the flood of 1916. This Philadelphia Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery is the new section (after the... Read More	NOTE: The present site of the Philadelphia Evangelical Lutheran Church and cemetery was established after the flood of 1916. The former location of the church and its cemetery is about 3-4 miles from the present church and cemetery and includes burials PRIOR to the flood of 1916. For those burials, researchers should look to that cemetery, known as Kastner's Church Cemetery, a/k/a Adam Kastner Cemetery. The Adam Kastner Cemetery is the location of the old burial grounds for this congregation before the flood of 1916. This Philadelphia Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery is the new section (after the 1916 flood) for this congregation. This information has been compiled under the direction of the Historical Committee of Philadelphia Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1910 Philadelphia Church road, Dallas, North Carolina 28034 through the information assembled by the Bicentennial Committee of Gaston County. Kastner's Church Cemetery The first Lutheran congregation located in what is today Gaston County was originally known as Kastner's Lutheran congregation. IN the absence of the church records, which ere destroyed in the flood of 1916, much information about the church and its cemetery comes from other sources and from oral tradition. Adam Kastner, at the age of thirty-eight, along with his wife and five children sailed on the ship PATIENCE from Rotterdam, Holland, going via of England, and arrived in America at York County, Pennsylvania in September, 1748. After remaining there for a while, Adam then moved his family to Piedmont, North Carolina. Tradition tells us that Adam, father of the Costner family in our area, held religious meetings in his home. It is assumed that a log church was constructed on the Kastner property some time later. A cemetery was begun at the same time. The first person buried in the cemetery (who has a marked stone) was Adam Kastner. Adam was buried on a hill near his home. With his death we trace the history of Kastner's Lutheran Church and Cemetery. The early congregation was known as Kastners or Costners in the early records. As late as the 1820's the references are made to Costner's Church. However, by 1776 the congregation had the name changed to PHILADELPHIA, which has been used since that time. This cemetery contains many markers since it served the congregation of Kastner's as the only burial ground until 1916, with only a few burials after that year. The oldest markers are soapstone slabs, shaped and inscribe by hand. The earliest deceased were children and relatives of the Kastners. Other families - Cloningers, Fridays, Garrisons, Linebergers, Hoyles, Pasours, Plonks, Rhynes, Rutledges, Thornburgs - are buried along side their friends and fellow church members. Even after a church was built very close to the South Fork River in 1798, the congregation continued to travel to their burying grounds on the hill overlooking the river and the church. Of course, not all the members of the church chose to bury in the cemetery. Some preferred their own family cemeteries which were closer to home and where other loved ones already rested. By 1916 a sizable cemetery covered the slope. Only because of a natural disaster - the flood which destroyed the church - did the congregation cease burying at the old cemetery.

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