Dear Sandra,
I know this is probobly no help at all because my ancestors were in St. Louis.. a marriage record entry (catholic).
Shrine of St. Joseph Church. 4 Sept 1860
Eadene Franciscus Grotepehler filims Jodoci?[Jacob] Schmalhorst et Ida Kuhlage una cune Theresia Bismeier fili Christian Bismeier et Margaretha Rehmschnier coram nee? ? scripto et testibus Petro Kuhlage et. Maria Schroeder. Fr. Joseph Weber
Father Joseph Weber was instumental, along with the people were instumental in building the "Alter of Answered Prayers" at the Church.
A short extraction about the Alter.
http://www.shrineofstjoseph.org/miracles
The promise. Father Joseph Weber, pastor of the parish and superior of the Jesuit community at St. Joseph�s, gathered the parishioners together on Sunday morning. They all made a solemn vow to God, that if through the intercession of St. Joseph the parish were spared further deaths from cholera, they would in thanksgiving erect a suitable monument in honor of St. Joseph, patron of the parish church. To this end the parishioners pledged an initial four thousand dollars, a considerable sum in those days.
The miracle. To the amazement of the pastor, his assistants, religious Brothers, and all the parishioners, their prayers of fervent petition was heard. Not one member of all the families who had signed the vow and the pledge was stricken with cholera after that day. Miracle or not, these are the facts, testified to in the old yellow-edged documents in the church�s archives.
My emslander/Lower Saxon ancestors were members of this catholic church. It was for the most part a German speaking parrish with alot of immigrants from the Kingdom of Hannover to St. Louis, Missouri and vacinity.