Church Records
From the 1870s to about 1907 a The Sterling Trade River Lutheran Church was located on Evergreen Avenue where Cowan Creek joins Trade River.
The church records (in Swedish) are online : Sterling Lutheran
There were four Methodist Churches in the SEL area, Atlas, Cushing, Wolf Creek and Eureka. We don not have any records from them. We do have a diary of the minister who was at the latter three 1911 and 1912 Diary of a Minister