Emmanuel (Baust) Church

Photograph

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Historical Society of Carroll County, Maryland

Name/Title

Emmanuel (Baust) Church

Entry/Object ID

1997.005.001

Description

Print, photographic. Albumen print, Emmanuel (Baust) Lutheran Church and cemetery, c. 1885. a two-story red brick church with a large fenced in graveyard in front of it. The front of the first floor has a door with a small windowed area above it in the center with a single window on either side of it. The windows and the windowed area of the door are rounded. The left side of the first floor has two more rounded top windows with a door exactly like the one on the front in between them. The front of the second floor has three rounded windows across it. There is a large white circle above the center window and a small white circular vent above that. There are three more rounded windows along the left side of the second floor. The corners of the church protrude from the rest of the building and look almost column-like. A white picket fence wraps around the front of the church and then extends outward in both directions to go around the enormous graveyard. There are headstones of many different sizes and shapes in the graveyard. There is are two evergreen bushes, one on the far right side and one on the far front end. Two other small trees are growing in there too. 8"x10"

Acquisition

Accession

1997.005

Source or Donor

Bollinger, Ruth E.

Acquisition Method

Gift

General Notes

Note

Luther Oliver Eckard married Rachel Rebecca Stonesifer on December 2, 1913. Luther Eckard (d.1940) was a paperhanger, operating his own business out of his home at 63 Pennsylvania Avenue in Westminster. The Eckards had two daughters, Caroline Elizabeth(b.1915 - d. 1977), and Loretta (b.1917 - d.1925, of scarlet fever) and adopted another, Ruth Ellen (b. 1928), after her mother died of influenza. Luther Eckard was also on the Consistry of Baust Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Tyrone, Md., for many years. After Luther Eckard's death, the family moved to another house on Littlestown Pike. The donor of this gift, Mrs. Richard (Ruth Ellen Eckard) Bollinger, is the daughter of Luther and Rachel Eckard. Most of the unidentified photographs in this collection are believed to be from the Stonesifer family.