Zion Oakfield UCC

Genealogical Data

The following records from this congregation are available:

Baptisms from 1879 to 1925 Please note: There is a gap in these records from 1911 through 1918.

Confirmations from 1880 to 1926 Please note: There is a gap in these records from 1910 through 1920 and from 1927 through 1939.

Deaths from 1880 to 1973 Please note: There is a gap in these records from 1910 through 1922 and from 1951 through 1969.

Marriages from 1880 to 1893 and 1895 to 1978 Please note: There is a gap in these records from 1910 through 1920 and from 1947 through 1970. We have no further marriages than what has been posted.

StLGS is following state guidelines for privacy wherever possible. Births/baptisms online must be at least one hundred years old; confirmations eighty-six years old; marriages forty-five years old; and deaths fifty years old. Additional indexed data from these records is available; please come to the StLGS office to view it. As privacy limits permit, society volunteers will post additional data online.

History

Established in 1878; still active in 2025

425 Old Manchester Road
Photo © 2018 Carol Whitton
(Used with permission)

This little country church is actually just about a half mile over the St. Louis County line in Pacific, Franklin County. Founded by German immigrants farming in the rural area, the church served as a center of social and spiritual life for hard-working families. Traveling ministers served the small congregation until they built a one-room frame church in the spring of 1879. The church was built on a hill and contained the one element required by the community, a bell to call them to worship. That building, with some additions, is still in use. The first baptism occurred in October of that year; the first marriage in January 1880 and the first death just a week later. The building has electricity but no plumbing. A nineteenth-century parsonage across the road has been modernized and serves as a hall for church functions and a place to hold Sunday school classes.

Address: 425 Old Manchester Road, Pacific, Missouri 63069

Location: 38.5344624,-90.7446061 View Map