New Richland Baptist Church and Richland Cemetery - Brinker, TX
N 33° 07.959 W 095° 29.568
15S E 267453 N 3668758
The New Richland Baptist Church is at 1006 FM 69 S, about a mile south of its intersection with I-30, in Brinker, TX. Behind it is the Richland Cemetery, aka Brinker Cemetery, which is old but yet active, with over 700 burials.
Waymark Code: WMQA13
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/19/2016
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A Texas Historical Marker in Richland Cemetery provides mostly cemetery history, but it does reference the original Richland Baptist Church's establishment in 1872:
Unmarked graves here may date to 1872, the year the Richland Baptist Church bought the site and the Richland School was established here. The earliest marked grave dates to 1878; two earlier ones, dated 1873 and 1876, are reinterments. Many veterans, including more than a dozen of the Civil War, are buried here. The Richland Cemetery Society maintained the graveyard from 1922 to 1962, when the Richland Cemetery Association formed. Although the school and original church are gone, the site now provides an enduring link to the area's early history.
A note on the Richland Cemetery entry at Findagrave indicates that the church has been through several incarnations: Richland Baptist Church, Brinker Community Church, The Bride, and New Richland Baptist Church.
The 1878 grave mentioned on the historical marker belongs to Luvinia Maginnes. Like other headstones in the cemetery, it has been the subject of preservation efforts, with black paint's being used to highlight the headstone's details. Time will tell whether this has helped or hindered, but interestingly, the work is incomplete. The inscription is:
Luvinia
Wife of
T. Maginnes.
Died
Aug. 26, 1878,
Aged
About 58 Yrs.
Blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord, for they do rest
from their labors, and their
works do follow them.