Will County Illinois Genealogy
Obituaries from the Beecher Herald, Beecher, Will Co., IL 1908 – 1916 Misc Obits to 1937 The following information was submitted by Karen Rowe and used with her permission. Karen S. Rowe, March 2005
St. John’s Lutheran Church, Eagle Lake, Beecher, Will Co., IL Deaths 1855 – 1910 Maier – Zarn Surnames Submitted by Karen Rowe.
St. John’s Lutheran Church, Eagle Lake, Beecher, Will Co., IL Deaths 1855 – 1910 Albers – Luke Surnames Submitted by Karen Rowe.
St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church Eagle Lake RR 2 (Eagle Lake Road), Beecher, IL 60401 Submitted by Karen Rowe The St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Congregation was organized late in 1854 as a daughter congregation of Zion (now Trinity) Lutheran Church of Crete, Illinois. Their first church was located on Bemis Road in Crete Township not far from the Ilinois-Indiana State line. In 1866 the church was moved about 2 miles south to its present location on Eagle Lake Road in the northeast corner of Washington Township, just across the border from Crete Township. The original church building in Washington Township … Read more
This township is located in the extreme southeastern part of the county and forms with Crete the two largest townships, each having about forty-five sections, or square miles. It is generally a good agricultural township, and that is all the settlers have aspired to. Some of the land is excellent and raises large crops of corn, oats, hay and potatoes. The land generally is rolling, but in places it is flat, with poor drainage. Eagle Lake, in the northeastern part of the township, was formerly much larger than now, its swamps and marshes furnishing to the inhabitants immense quantities of … Read more