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Note: wis A Harding, History of Decatur County (Indianapolis: BF Bowen, 1915) at p 273 in a discussion of the Catholic Church in the county, which indicates that there were early Catholic churches at Millhousen (1840) and Enochsburg (1844):
St Maurice's Parish
The village St. Maurice was laid out in 1858 and was named in honor of Bishop Maurice De St. Oakaus. The Christian Brothers started a school in the same year; but upon te death of their leader, Brother John May Weitman, the teachers returned to France. The Brothers had laid out the town upon forty acres of ground, of which nine and thirty-five hundredths acres belonged to the parish. A chapel was built in connection with the school which later served as a church for the parish. It was a frame structure, later con verted into a school building, and is now a residence, owned by Frank Nienaber.
Among the first settlers in the village were: Martin Mauer, Stephan Brigler, Leonard Hemmerle, Magdalena Hemmerle, Herman Schroeder, John Altenan, Henry Oesterling, Edward Hellmich, Henry Groene and Henry Hopster.
The first mass was celebrated at St. Maurice by the Franciscan priest from Enochsburg. There were at that time sixteen families in the parish. The ten acres of ground and the first building cost the Brothers two thousand dollars. They raised one thousand dollars and borrowed the remainder. [list of priests from 1884] The present church was built in 1881-82 at a cost of ten thousand dollars. . . The rectory was built in 1855 [I suspect this should be 1885] . .
On 19/11/2005, at 8:58 AM, ED wrote:
Joseph Henry Hopster married Elizabeth Nabors 12 May 1873 Fugit Decatur County, Indiana Information on marriage request. Or any other information on the Hopster family
Ed Thank you
San Antonio Texas
Note: The only reference to Hopster in early books on Decatur County is in Le
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