The Salem Evangelical Church was built on 1 acre of land and served a very small congregation until 1885. At that time Ephraim Stitzer, Obadiah Manwiller and David Bierman were its trustees. In May of 1891 Salem reorganized their Sunday School and elected Milton J. Schitler, superintendent, Washington Moyer, assistant superintendent and treasurer; and Benjamin Wentzel as secretary.

Salem operated under the umbrella of the East Pennsylvania Conference of Evangelical Association. In July of 1895 the East Penn Conference and the Evangelical Association of North America deeded the church tract with the cemetery to Washington Moyer, Benjamin Wentzel and Amos Seyler, trustees of the former Salem EC, now St. Paul's Evangelical Church. From this we assumed the reorganization in 1891 included a name change to St. Paul's.

The next we found of St. Paul's Evangelical Church property was in March of 1930 when the Trustees of the East Pennsylvania United Conference of Evangelical Church issued a Quit Claim deed to Aaron B. Hafer, his wife Clara Hafer and Amos E. Seyler, Trustees of St. Paul's Evangelical Congregational Church. This seemed to be an affirmation of the transfer of 1895.

Membership dwindled and in March of 1932 the three trustees sold the church building and a portion of St. Paul's tract to Howard S. Deysher. No longer needed as church the building became a family dwelling. The premises transferred to Deysher did not include the cemetery. An exception for a right-of-way to the cemetery was included on this 1932 deed (DB 749 p. 63, Nov. 17, 1932)

The current owner purchased the church section and a lot next to the original church tract. The cemetery remains the property of St. Paul's Evangelical Church, even though it is defunct. The last trustees found were Aaron B. Hafer and Clara (Heckman) Hafer and Amos E. Seyler.

Written by Betty J Burdan and used with her permission