North Carolina Churches and Their Cemeteries

 

 

St. Paul's Lutheran Church, located in Alamance County, is the oldest Lutheran church in the county. The church is believed to have been originally called "Graves Church" after the family that donated the land for the church, and it was originally a union church with the German Reformed. According to a St. Paul's Lutheran Church history document, although worship was conducted there as early as 1745, the earliest documented date for the organization of the church is 1770. In 1800, the German Reformed members moved to Old Steiners (Stoner's) church and to Der Klapp Kirche (Brick Church).

Stoner's (Steiner's) Church: became an active congregation about 1801. The church was dissolved about 1886. The cemetery is presently located in a pasture on Rufus J. Dale’s farm in Alamance County on Bellemont-Kimesville Rd. near the village of Belmont (near Graham) just off hwy 49.