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Showing posts with label Texas history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas history. Show all posts
Friday, May 29, 2026

A traveling church

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Another church on the move Excerpt from “Baptists of Denton County to Hold Golden Jubilee Celebration,” Denton Record-Chronicle , Wednesday...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

The republic is no more

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“Many a head was bowed, many a broad chest heaved, and many a manly cheek was wet with tears when that broad field of blue in the center of ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Dossey preachers in early Texas

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I am saving the clip below for historical reference. In his 1846 travels, Z. N. Morrell mentions two brothers named Dorsey who had a church ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Thomas Washington Cox

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Thomas Washington Cox was born in Tennessee, and labored as a Baptist minister in Alabama and Texas (and perhaps Tennessee), before defecti...
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Saturday, August 16, 2025

Index for the Journal of Texas Baptist History

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An index that might be useful for researchers, especially if they are looking into Texas Baptist history: “ Index for the Journal of Texas B...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

The Texas Triangle

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The Texas Triangle (also dubbed the Texaplex by author David Winans) is the triangular region framed by the cities of Austin, Dallas–Fort Wo...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Recommended, with reservations

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Historic Churches of Texas: The Land and The People , Frank A. Driskill and Noel Grisham. Burnet, TX: Eakin Press, 1980 This is a book about...
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Friday, June 14, 2024

General Sam Houston

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Z. N. Morrell (1803-1883), a Tennessee and Texas Baptist preacher, was an acquaintance and admirer of General Sam Houston (1793-1863), and...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

In memory of Wiley Palmer Jones

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The writing below is an excerpt from the funeral discourse for Wiley Palmer Jones (1844-1912), by Methodist minister George S. Wyatt . Wile...
Friday, March 05, 2021

A Bit of East Texas History – LeTourneau

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I grew up about 40 miles south of Longview, Texas . My oldest sister and brother-in-law lived there several years – right behind LeTourneau...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Fredonian Declaration of Independence

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The Fredonian Declaration of Independence was signed December 21, 1826. Martin Parmer signed this document as President. Brother Haden and ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Heedless Happy History

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When researching and then relating Baptist history, one division often ignores the other as non-existent. For example, the Old North Church ...
Friday, November 08, 2019

“Admirers of Campbell giving us trouble”

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In his documentary history  Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness  (page 189), Elder Z. N. Morrell wrote of early Baptist problems in East ...
Thursday, November 07, 2019

Fleeing U.S. for Texas

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In its early days, Texas (the Mexican state and the Republic of Texas nation) was a place of escape for some folks fleeing the United States...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Elder Levi A. Durham

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Levi Allen Durham   Levi Allen Durham was born February 27, 1792 in Montgomery County, North Carolina, to Thomas Durham and Rebecca All...