Lutheran Welfare Society (Oak Forest, Illinois) Operational Records

Record Group

Identifier: Collection ID-3184

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

These records arrived as a group and are maintained essentially in that form. The connection of all the groups is not immediately clear.

The official acts of baptisms, confirmations, and burials from 1935 to 1964 for the Oak Forest Mission / Ebenezer Lutheran Church are in a folder.

An index of the Ebenezer Lutheran Cemetery records is in a folder as well as on the CHI server.

Dates

Creation: 1894 - 1994

Biographical / Historical

The materials in this collection are from the Lutheran Welfare Society, Lutheran City Mission of Cook County, Chicago Lutheran City Mission, Wohlthatigkeits Vereins, Evangelical Lutheran Stadtmission, and the Oak Forest Mission/Ebenezer Lutheran Church (and possibly other entities) all of which seem to be intertwined. According to a newspaper clipping in the collection, a pastor had tried to organize a congregation among the patients at the Oak Forest Hospital/Infirmary; this was eventually named Ebenezer. There was also a cemetery involved.

Extent

.83 Linear Feet (One 5" letter box; One 5" legal box;)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Physical Location

5.9.3.2

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Received from Northern Illinois District, Hillside, Illinois, January 30, 2012; South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society, Hazel Crest, Illinois May 10, 2023