Index of Death Notices Appearing in Der Christliche Apologete 1839-1899: A National German Methodist NewspaperThis index has over 26,800 deaths, which were reported and published before 1899 throughout the United States, with the majority of them from the Midwest area. The newspaper was begun in 1839 by Rev. Wilhelm Nast in Cincinnati. As his influence spread, he recruited many more ministers to support the German Methodist movement, and the founding of many more local churches in the area, which eventually expanded to include most of the United States and