Salem Predestinarian Baptist Church and Cemetery
Teague, Freestone County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Among oldest in county. Founded Dec. 3, 1853, by the Lee families, Elders Thomas Dossey and C. T. Echols certifying to constitution of church. Elder Dossey named it. Five-acre site given by W. H. McSwane family. First building of logs was replaced later by frame structure. The present chapel was erected in 1961.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
One of the oldest congregations in Freestone County, Salem Predestinarian Baptist Church was founded in December 1853 by the Lee families, with elders Thomas Dossey and C. T. Echols certifying its constitution. A five-acre site donated by the McSwane family held first a log meetinghouse, later a frame building, and eventually the present chapel raised in 1961. Elder Dossey gave the church its name.
Why it matters
The church and its cemetery mark the deep roots of frontier religious community in antebellum Texas, still tended more than a century and a half later.
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Related people
- · Thomas Dossey
- · C. T. Echols
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