​St. Peter Lutheran Church
​and Prairie Valley Cemetery

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Marker No: 11880

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: N 29° 56.849 W 096° 59.745

Location: ​640 Prairie Valley Road, West Point 

Marker Text: ​Sixteen families led by the Rev. R. Osthoff organized this church in 1896, the congregation met at the schoolhouse and Knights of Honor lodge. Dietrich Hermann Wessels donated two acres for a church and cemetery across the road from the lodge congregation was recognized by the Missouri Synod in January 1901; the church building was completed in February. Most of the grave inscriptions before the 19302 are in German, until 1935. Burials in the cemetery are almost all those of church members, including the charter families. With about seventy members and more than 121 graves, both church and cemetery remain active. (1998)