Lonesome Dove Baptist Church and Cemetery
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This engraved chunk of granite, sitting in front of a church in Southlake, was "adopted" as an Official State Historical Marker.
Waymark Code: WM16EH
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/30/2007
Views: 76
Index Entry: Lonesome Dove Baptist Church and Cemetery
Address: 2380 Lonesome Dove
City: Southlake
County: Tarrant
Subject Codes: BP; CH; GY;
Year Marker Erected: 1968
Designations: na
Marker Location: 2380 Lonesome Dove, Southlake
Marker Size: Other
Repairs Completed: N/A
Marker Text: N/A - Adopted as State Marker
Marker Number: 3119
Marker Text:
Minutes preserved 1846-1968
Organized Feb. 1846 in Chas. & Lucinda Throop home 3 mi. East by 12 Baptists; joined the next day by 11 Baptists. Eld. J. Hodge Deacon James Gibson formed the presbytery. 1st Building at this site 1847. When Elected eld. John Freeman, who had served as teacher & part time preacher since 1846, he served as permanent pastor 1847-1857. In adjoining cemetery rest many Tarrant County pioneers, several among 1st elected officials when it was organized in 1850.
Constituents
Hall Medlin, clerk
John Freeman Moderator
Nancy (Harris) Freeman
Mary (Medlin) Anderson
Susanah (Medlin) Foster
Lucinda (Foster) Throop
Mary Ann (Foster) Leonard
Felix Mullikan
Rachel (Foster) Mullikan
Henry Suggs
Saleta (Foster) Suggs
and Henry Atkinson
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