Alan R. Martin 
A Town’s Nightmare [EPUB ebook] 

Pastor Albert mentioned a minister who was slain in 1847 after changing the proclamation of religious beliefs in 1839. He was educated and tortured during his tenure in his last days. The man changed indoctrination from Catholic to Protestant. This was when the frightful adventure started, in 1847, and his name was Pastor Matthew.

Hendrick Elias Leckner was a former pastor of the Catholic faith, the one who made a pact with the devil in 1817.

‚If someone changed their faith, then I give intermission for the devil to extinguish ten people in a two-week period every ten years.‘

And he sold his soul for this admonishment, an agreement between him and the devil.