The Seventh-day Adventist Church at this site was started on April 9, 1882. A church building was built in the summer of 1882 on Philipp Reiswig's property, on the banks of the James River. We have called this the Reiswig Seventh-day Adventist Cemetery because of the person who donated the land, and to distinguish it from the Seventh-day Adventist Cemetery six miles to the north, the Suelzle Seventh-Day Adventist Cemetery.

The location of this Church and Cemetery were found on February 18, 2012.

The GPS Coordinates of the Cemetery are:
43.40240, -97.7391

The GPS Coordinates of the Church Foundation are:
43.40251, -97.73911

We believe that one of the first people buried here was Philipp's wife, Catharina (Kaftan) Reiswig.

To our knowledge, the only two Seventh-day Adventist Congregations in Hutchinson County, South Dakota were the Reiswig Congregation, in the Wittenberg North Township of Hutchinson County, and the Suelzle Congregation, in the Clayton Township of Hutchinson County. We have been told that the two congregations used to attend each other's church, when the weather permitted, on an every other week schedule. This explains the marriages between members of both congregations that began in the mid 1880's.

In 1897 and 1898, many of the congregation of the Reiswig Seventh-day Advcentist Church had immigrated to the new homestead territories in North Dakota. Most of the descendants of Philipp Reiswig moved to Lincoln Township, Sheridan County, North Dakota. After 1900, a number of families from the Suelzle Seventh-day Adventist congregation joined the Reiswigs in North Dakota.

As a descendant of Philipp and Catharina (Kaftan) Reiswig, I decided to list this cemetery and those who were likely buried here, even though we have no hard evidence of their burials.

John B. Kelly
Great Great Grandson of Philipp Heinrich Reiswig