Bridges Chapel United Methodist Church - Titus County, TX
N 33° 15.757 W 095° 02.781
15S E 309391 N 3682267
The Bridges Chapel United Methodist Church is at 215 Titus County Road 1465, about 8.5 miles northwest of Mt. Pleasant, TX, in the old Bridges Chapel community.
Waymark Code: WMYX6M
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/05/2018
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Besides a few perfunctory directory listings, and some web-spidered references, this church lacks any kind of Internet presence. The Bridges Chapel settlement itself dates to the 1850s, and today, there are a little under a hundred people living in the area. A 2000 Texas Historical Marker in front of the adjacent cemetery provides some background for the area's settlement:
Relious and Candice Grissom Bridges settled in this area between 1857 and 1860 along with Candice's brother Thomas Grissom. In 1867 the family gave land for a Methodist church and cemetery at this site. The first burial is believed to have been that of a laborer for Thomas Grissom. The earliest marked grave is that of Mary Bridges Williams, who died giving birth to her third child, a son who died with her in 1868. Both Relious and Candice Bridges died on October 11 of that year. Six more of their children are interred here. A 1904 tornado scattered the fragile wooden markers in the Bridges Cemetery, but order was restored. Perpetual care was established here in the 1960s, and the Bridges Chapel Cemetery continues as a chronicle of the early pioneers of Titus County and the surrounding areas.
Active church?: Yes
Year Built: Unknown
Service times:
Sunday, 9:30 AM
Website: [Web Link]
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