Coletoville Cemetery
2533 East Coletoville Road at Martin Luther Lutheran Church

When an epidemic of diphtheria hit the German settlement of Steinerville, established 1849, two of August and Thelka Spitzer's children died. Ten-year-old Henry and six-year-old Robert were buried by their parents in 1872 on this site. In May of 1872 the Spitzers deeded this land to the trustees of the new school and Evangelic German Church of the community of Steinerville. The community was later renamed Coletoville for the nearby Coleto Creek. Both Thelka and August Spitzer are buried in this cemetery. The oldest birth dates are those of Eva Violet and Joseph Wiser, both born in 1812. Several veterans of major American and international conflicts are interred here. In 1970, the church, now called Martin Luther Lutheran Church, deeded the cemetery land to the Coletoville Cemetery Association. The church and cemetery became separate institutions for the first time, though community members of all faiths have traditionally been buried here. Burial sites are marked in rows and spaces rather than plots, and graves are arranged in consecutive order by date. Many of the oldest markers were originally made of sandstone. A 1997 count revealed 623 marked and 78 unmarked graves.