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Bronte First Methodist Church Beginnings and Growth
The Bronte church formed under Rev J W Montgomery in 1890 at Pecan Motts on East Kickapo Creek. Early members include Dr and Mrs W F Key and family, J M Williams family, George Harris, Capt and Mrs Hutchinson, and many others. Groundbreaking in 1907 for a $5,000 building, later expansions 1957 1959 1960s, parsonage added 1959, and a long line of pastors through 1963 led by Rev A S Masterson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecan Motts
Kickapoo Creek
First Methodist Church
Bronte
J. W. Montgomery
Hayrick Church
W. F. Key
Henry
Pearl
J. M. Williams
Tom Williams
George Harris
J. P. Hutchinson
Ennis Adams
Caulley
Albert Rawlings
Ed Rawlings
Montgomery
Ed Merchant
W. L. Hayley
Robert Lee
J. D. Leonard
J. A. Grimes
E. C. Rawlings
D A. McGuire
J. O A. Grimes
A. J. Rawlings
Walter Riker
San
Jas. S. Key
J. A. Whitehurst
C. F. Gideon
San Angelo
P. H. Gates
Full Gospel Church
A. Lin Loeffler
C. O. Richards
D. K. Glenn
Joe McCutchen
Vera Thomas
Bob Grimes
Royce Lee
Edna Butner
Bob Wilson
Hayrick
Rev. Hulsey
J. T. Fair
Eugene Bates
L. A. Clark
W. K. Simpson
J. M. Baker
D. A. McGuire
C. N. Morton
C. D. Spann
A. E Turney
R. B. Wagner
Thomas L. Sorrels
A. C. Smith
B. M. Galloway
C. W. Harden
W. T. Veach
W. E. Anderson
P. L. Shuler
C. O. Hightower
Wallace N. Danson
Stanley R. Harwood
Paul Moon
J. H. Thompson
C. Reginald Hardy
B. F. Bahmfolk
Abner Hanson
J. B. McCrary
Alvin Mauldin
J. E. Fuller
W. C. Craig
Linn Loeffler
James W. Campbell
G. R. Grimes
A. S. Neely
A. S. Masterson
Elmer Hurley