St. Paul United Church of Christ, Waterloo, Illinois:

This index contains about 2500 entries. . The congregation was founded in January 1846 as an Evangelical Church with the existing death records beginning in 1849. Married women are indexed by both their married name and maiden name. Death records for 1849 thru 1983 can be found on Microfilm Roll # 1433230; item 1 at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Information enclosed in brackets [ ] is NOT found in the original record but has been added by Mr. Buecher either as a correction or for clarification. Additional information may be found in the original record that is NOT found in this index. When words in the original records were written with an umlaut [two dots over the vowels "A", "O", or "U"], they have been typed here as "AE", "OE", or "UE".

Many of the death records give both the date of death and the date of burial. Seldom do the records indicate the name of the cemetery. Quite often the entries contain the place of birth of the deceased.

Wernig, Hessen Darmstadt: there are several entries for deaths of residents from the village of Wernig & Wernings, located in Hessen Darmstadt. This village sold their property to the Count of Solms-Laubach in January 1841. The inhabitants then moved in-masse to Monroe County. Most were protestants and settled in either Waterloo or Columbia, IL.

“Salem” probably refers to the parish of Salem located near Baltz Cemetery.