Saturday, June 4, 2011

Ficken/Stelljes Family Tree

Friedrich Ficken
Birth 12 Feb 1854 in Wulsbüttel, Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Germany 
Death 25 Apr 1921 in Waycross, Ware, Georgia, USA 




Meta Stelljes Ficken
Birth 1 Aug 1845 Überhamm, Germany 

Death 9 Jul 1937 in Waycross, Georgia 


Marriage
Savannah, Georgia
Lutheran Church of Ascension Savannah, Georgia
5 January 1875



Lutheran Church of the Ascension in Savannah, GA

The Congregation
Several years after a Salzburger Pastor and fellow German Lutherans arrived in the area, Ascension congregation was founded in 1741. The church trustees purchased the present lot in 1771. Several wooden structures and a single story brick church preceded the present building, constructed in 1878.