Several years ago, my wife and I were traveling along US Highway 98 just east of the town of Elberta, Alabama when we passed a small seemingly forgotten cemetery on the south side of the highway. We had passed this cemetery hundred of times in the past twenty years or so, but had never stopped to check it out. We stopped, kicked away much of the the debris and found several headstones. I photographed them, went home, uplaoded them and found that they were not in the Find A Grave index. I determined that the earliest burial in the cemetery was a Mr. Alexande Adolph Koehler, so I designated the cemetery as the Koehler Cemetery. At that time there were 12 known and visible headstones, I photographed and memorilized each one. since then, I have been contacted by several family members, provided with more information and have learned that the original cemetery name was in fact St. John's.

This message from one of my friend (Mrs Joy Buskin Calloway Robinson) states that Ms. Dorothy Bretz of Elbert, Alabama had requested:

"Could you please send me the e-mail of this lady's daughter - Ms. Bretz did not think she was a Catholic as she was the daughter of the Koehler(Scrathed out) or was it Kruger??

Both family heads were Lutheran Ministers - Mr. Kohler had been q missionary in Africa - He came to Elberta in 1911 and bought 160 acres - Gave some on the west side for a cemetery - He held Lutheran services in his home one Sunday - Mr. Krugar - also a Lutheran Minister held services in his home the next Sunday.

Ms. Bretz thought the Zollikofer's -Joseph and Marie were cremate and buried together. Their son son Henry died of T. B. - He was married to my aunt Ethel Hermetz - a Hungarian Immagrant.

The Zollikofers's were Germa and he said that he did not believe in God - He was an Atheist - The first I ever knew of such a thing - I was a kid.

Ms. Bretz' grandmother was Magdalene Swartz - Mother of Frank Swartz - Magdalene does not have a marker and Ms. Bretz asked me to help her get one. - I don't know her birth date or when she died."