By Vicki Schlarman (Nov 16, 2002)

On November 10, 2002, I visited the church which is being used as a farm storage building currently to re-photograph the cornerstone. I heard young children in the farmhouse yard across the road. I went to the farmhouse where I met a young mother who was calling to her young children. I asked her if she knew anything about the church across the road. She replied she did not but perhaps her father might. She entered the house and soon he came to the porch. I introduced myself and asked what he might know. He said that about 20 years ago a man whose name he didn't remember, wanted to buy the land between the church and Hwy 136. He had it surveyed and found that he needed to have it rezoned. A neighbor commented at that time that it would never happen because the land around the church had been a cemetery. The man did all kinds of research including removing the cornerstone thinking there might have been a "time capsule" in there but nothing was found. The result was no rezoning from the Board of Supervisors of Dubuque County. The man did however give a copy of his research to the Whites (owners of the property). Mrs. White was not home and Mr. Allan White or his daughter didn't know where to find the booklet. He gave me directions on where to find a couple stones and permission to look around the

I subsequently sent a thank you note and asked if it would be possible to copy the research that had been done on the property. I have not received a reply.