THIS IS A DRAFT WORK IN PROGRESS
a project for Concordia Lutheran Ministries
conducted by Ray Olszewski
A Walk Through the Home Cemetery or A History of Concordia at Cabot
by Ray Olszewski and Emily Bitting-Jha
Last Update: Friday, August 29, 2025
Documents contained in archive file folder marked ???
There are approximately 103 souls interred at the Concordia Lutheran Ministries Home Cemetery located in Cabot, Jefferson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA. Show on the map Luther Crest heart on the map show where the cemetery is located behind Haven I Home for the Aged. Address: 134 Marwood Road, Cabot, PA, 16023, Jefferson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Ray Olszewski who digitized over 52,000 pages Concordia's past can be found in the following:
Enter Summary Chart...
List of Interments at the Cemetery based on Findagrave.com work conducted by Ms. Brianna Mellish. In ????, Ms. Mellish took her time and made the effort to 'clean up' the information that identifies the Findagrave.com data for the Concordia Home Cemetery. Insert Link
History/Background: Since then, Concordia Public Relations Department under the direction of Ms. Emily Bitting-Jha has digitized, reorganized, and restructed its archives that date back to the early 1800s. It was at that time when the Concordia Lutheran Ministries began operating as an Orphanage at the farm of German Immigrant Christian Gottlieb Oertel and his wife also a German Immigrant Margaretha Doerr. Christian was born in 1807 in ??? Germany. Margaretha was also born in Germany in the town of ???. Christian came to America by sea sometime between 1832 and the early 1840s. Margaretha came to America arriving on the ??? on ??? which carried her and her family from Bremen to Philadelphia. It is estimated that Christian and Margaretha met and married before 1845 when 13 acres of rich fertile land was purchased at the small town of Hannahstown in 1845. Two years later in 1847, they purchased an additional 12 acres from Warnet ??? never had children of their own and decided
The couple worked the farm and there is evidence from census records that they took in the young to help them with their 45 acres of land turning it into a prospering farm. This did two things: (1) gave them a sense of helping themselves learning and executing roles as parents and getting the help they needed at the farm. As early as 1850, the quasi-official Orphanage began 50 years before it officially became an institiution as a 501c(3) organization established in 1882 or was it 1883?
Census records produced between 1850 and 1900 reflect the changes of personnel and activities of their lives and the lives of many others tied to this 45 acres of land. No records attributed to this time frame were found in the Concordia archives except the Oertel Bible which the couple donated to the newly established St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church located a half a mile away. At about this time the town of Saxonburg was beginning to florish. The work that the Roebling brothers who arrived in 1831 from Germany was progressing.
1880 Christian died.
St. Lukes....
of 1850 ???, 1860 ???, 1870 ???, 1880 ???, 1890 ??? reflect changes. For the next 50 years alot changed.
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The following page was found in a single file folder marked Cemetery ???
Unknown - Contain Caskets.
Those who contributed to the information:
Pat Shanor
Introduction: The work to digitize the Concordia Lutheran Ministries archives began in August 2024 under the initiation and direction of Ms. Emily Bitting-Jha of Concordia's Public Relations Staff. Concordia resident and Navy veteran Ray Olszewski spent 10 years researching and writing a book about the submarine her served on. After moving to Concordia in August 2023, he's using his historical knowledge and technical skills to digitize Concordia's archives. This is but one of many productive endeavor to share that surfaced from the Concordia archives. |
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Home Cemetery Grave Marker Photo, Grave Marker Inscription, and information source links |
Burial Plot # |
Name | DOB/POB | Veteran Occupation |
DOD/POB | Spouse | Children | Concordia Housefather |
~ Frances Adams 1863-1953 ~ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240402413/frances-adam https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/205482589/family?cfpid=292717232694 Concordia Lutheran Ministries Digital Archive File |
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Frances Weaver Adam |
27 July 1863 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania |
Retired housewife |
28 Dec 1953 Allegheny Valley Hospital, Natrona Heights, PA |
Christian Adam (B: |
Netzel |
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Eleonora Ahransberg 1852-1932 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240402494/elenora-ahransberg https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/203967896/family?cfpid=362672388367 Family POC lleachOH reach out 8/15/2025 Concordia Lutheran Ministries Digital Archive File |
TBD |
Elenora Laura??? Ahransberg
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28 Nov 1852, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV |
7 Aug 1931, Concordia LM Home for the Aged |
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Matthaus Kausch (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/244200093/matthaus-kausch) (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/204079385/person/392679896972/facts) Concordia Lutheran Ministries Digital Archive File |
TBD | Matthaus Kausch "Matthew" |
5 April 1879 Wizajny, Poland |
Baker Retail Bakery Owner |
17 June 1965 (86) Concordia Home, Cabot, Jefferson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania | Katharine Kausch Birth Name: Unknown |
??? | TBD |
Katharine Kausch (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/244200092/katharine-kausch) https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/204079385/family?cfpid=392694583030 Concordia Lutheran Ministries Digital Archive File |
TBD | Katharine Graber or Graham??? |
1 December 1879 Wizajny, Poland |
8 May 1968 (88) Natrona Heights, Allegheny County, PA |
Matthaus "Matthew" Kausch | ??? | TBD | |
<photo> John Kempin https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/244197892/john-kempin https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/204079385/person/392694583030/facts Concordia Lutheran Ministries Digital Archive File |
TBD | Johann "John" Anthony Kempin |
15 Aug 1889 or 1884?? POB: |
12 June 1973 TBD: |
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Flora Arnold 1880 - 1963 |
TBD | Flora May Pierce Arnold | 8 Aug 1880, Pennsylvania, USA | 19 Apr 1963 | George B. Arnold | |||
Mayda Anna Iffert Bachman
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TBD | Mayda A. Iffert Bachman | 19 Oct 1887 | 14 Feb 1965 (77) | John C. Bachman (1883-1960) | Yes | ||
Mary Bachoefer Obit Link? File Link? FaG Link?
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TBD | Mary Bachoefer | 15 Oct 1875 Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA | 10 Mar 1963 (87) | ||||
| Anna Baronovitch | TBD | Anna Baronovitch | 15 Jul 1847 | 24 Aug 1927 | ||||
Mary Carroll 1888-1964 |
TBD | 30 May 1888 Houston Run, Westmoreland County, PA |
28 Oct 1964 | Louis Alonzo Alexander (1877-1960) | Yes | |||
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