I recently wrote a bit about the Schroers, who were the second family to live in our house. Over the weekend, there was a tour of some of the local historic churches and one of them was First Presbyterian, where Dr. Schroer was a deacon. We definitely wanted to go to that one because we knew from this news clipping that his wife and daughter donated a baptismal font after his death:
![Auto-generated description: A group of men stands around a newly dedicated baptismal font, with one man holding a draped cloth covering it.](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/56576/2024/img-1945.jpeg)
Thankfully, it was still there:
![Auto-generated description: A wooden baptismal font with a hinged lid stands in a church setting, partially surrounded by greenery.](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/56576/2024/img-1939.jpeg)
![Auto-generated description: A wooden surface features a plaque dedicated to Dr. William H. Schroer, presented by his wife and daughter on June 30th, 1957.](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/56576/2024/img-1940.jpeg)
We were glad to be able to give the members of the church a bit more background information on their baptismal font in exchange for adding a couple of images to our house lore.