Grace Episcopal Church
Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Organized in 1874. First chapel was moved from Port Lavaca; present church, built 1889, was dedicated May 25, 1890, when the Rev. George Hinson was rector. Gothic architecture with clapboard siding, walnut interior, cedar shingle roof. Rectors have included Hudson Stuck (1892-94), reformer, child labor laws, and conqueror of Mt. McKinley, and Everett H. Jones (1927-30), later fourth bishop, Diocese of West Texas. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1966.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Grace Episcopal Church was organized in Cuero in 1874, first worshiping in a chapel floated in from Port Lavaca before building the present Gothic clapboard church in 1889. Its walnut interior and cedar-shingled roof have sheltered a remarkable roll of clergy—among them Hudson Stuck, a champion of child-labor reform who led the first ascent of Mount McKinley, and Everett H. Jones, later a bishop of West Texas. It remains a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.
Why it matters
A modest frontier parish that produced a nationally known social reformer and mountaineer, Grace Church shows how small-town congregations sent outsized figures into the wider American story.
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Related people
- · Hudson Stuck
- · Everett H. Jones
- · George Hinson
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