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Industry Brethren Church Cemetery
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The Industry Brethren Church was the third oldest congregation of the Unity of the Brethren in the German settlement of Industry, where periodic worship services began in 1860 after the Rev. Josef Opocensky moved there from Fayetteville. In 1875 the Rev. Ludvik Chlumsky organized the church with nine charter families. The congregation was based on principles that originated in an area east of Bohemia in Moravia in Czechoslovakia. Construction of a church building began in 1878 and it was dedicated on November 1, 1879. The cemetery was established by 1880, and the church incorporated in 1888. The church was renovated in 1929, and a new sanctuary was built and dedicated on September 29, 1968, after which the original church building was disassembled and rebuilt by members of the Christian Faith Church in Bellville, where it remains. In 1966 church members agreed to exchange 0.367 acres of land with Robert Spiess to enlarge the cemetery. The Industry Brethren Church Cemetery has more than 200 graves, including the oldest, dating to 1880, of L. and Rosalie Marek. Some headstones bear verses written in Czech, including that of Jan Coufal (1842-1902). The picket fence was constructed in the 1930s. At least twenty-one veterans are buried in the cemetery, with Ernst Maeckel, Bennie Dockal, and John Ripple, Jr. being the earliest burials. The cemetery was originally referred to as the Bohemian Moravian Evangelical Reformed Church Cemetery and the Czech-Moravian Cemetery, short for Evangelical Unity of the Czech Moravian Brethren of North America.
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