The Old Methodist Church Cemetery is located in
Montgomery, Texas
on 105 West & Pond.
Methodist Churchyard
Historical Marker
In Jan. 1839, the Rev. Isaac
Strickland organized a Methodist Church whose members soon built a log
meetinghouse on this site donated by founders of the town of Montgomery. The
churchyard came into use for burials during the 1840s. When Pastor G. W.
Rabb was dying in 1851, he requested burial beneath the altar of the frame
church then being built to replace the log cabin. His grave and a monument
commemorating pioneer circuit riders now (1976) mark the original Methodist
Church site. The church and the nearby parsonage, which is said to have been
the first Methodist parsonage built in Texas, were relocated in 1908. A
tabernacle later erected beside the cemetery has also been demolished. A
stone in this cemetery commemorates a soldier of the American Revolution who
helped settle this county and died here. Churchyard burials included
veterans of the War of 1812, the Texas War for Independence, Mexican War,
and Civil War, as well as many other pioneers, state and county officials,
merchants, ministers, and physicians. In some of the unmarked graves are
travelers who died here among strangers. Although a new cemetery opened in
1868, this one was also used until no space remained.
From http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/shell-county.htm
John Marshall Wade
Historical Marker
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(1815 -1879) Born in New York City, John Marshall
Wade left his home as a youth. On the advice of Sam Houston, he came to
Texas in 1835 from the Western Creek Nation in present-day Oklahoma. He
joined the Texas army during the War for Independence. At the Battle of
San Jacinto, April 21, 1836, he was among the men detailed to fire the
"Twin Sisters," a pair of cannons given to the Texas forces by citizens
of Cincinnati, Ohio. After the war, he served briefly as assistant
secretary to the Senate of the Republic of Texas. A printer by
profession, Wade became a typesetter for Gail Borden's newspaper, the
"Telegraph and Texas Register." In 1838 he moved to the community of
Montgomery and was appointed deputy surveyor for Montgomery county. He
participated in the Somervell Expedition against Mexico in 1842. In 1845
he founded a weekly paper, the "Montgomery Patriot," which he later
transferred to Huntsville. Returning to Montgomery in 1854, he again
became deputy surveyor. He served in the Confederate army during the
Civil War (1861-65). From his marriage to Ruth Boston and his later
marriage to Virginia Tinsley, Wade had five children. He spent his last
years at the home of a daughter in Austin, where he died and was buried
in 1879.
From http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/shell-county.htm |
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