Sunday Worship Service:
8:20 a.m.
Letort (EV, 1832), is located on Claremont (Farm) Road, just east of
Carlisle, PA., near Drytown. This congregation began during a camp meeting
held near Mount Rock in 1832 by Rev. Joseph M. Saylor. Several prominent
area families attended the meetings and invited Rev. Saylor to return with
them east of Carlisle to preach. The David Kutz, Jacob Kutz, Christian
Ruhl and John Kratzer families were converted and Rev. Saylor continued
to preach in their homes until the end of the conference year. The first
brick church was erected in 1841, near the site of the present church,
on land donated by David Kutz and was the location of the EV Annual Conferences
of 1843 and 1846. Jacob Boas, pioneer EV evangelist and organizer of Carlisle
(First) and New Kingstown congregations married the daughter of David Kutz
and is buried in the Letort Cemetery (AKA Kutz Church Cemetery). The present
church (shown above) was erected in 1872 .
The Letort Board of Trustees are the owner and administrator of the
Letort Cemetery (Old Kutz Cemetery) that covers nearly eleven acres.
The Letort Cemetery Association was incorporated in 1997 to ensure perpetual
cemetery care. The Board of Directors is comprised of church officials
and residents of the community. The Cemetery Records of Lots and burials
have been automated. Copies of the directory can be found at the Church
office and Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, PA.
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