This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Early Comanche Churches in 1850s History Review
L B Russell recounts early Methodist and Baptist church formation in Comanche County. The 1850s saw the first weatherboard chapel built about 1858 near the present Methodist Church site, with early preachers including Kidd Ferguson and local leaders like Uncle Manse Coker. The first Baptist group formed around 1856 at Tug Gle schoolhouse, with leaders Lider Howard and Elder Bynum, and the town's first Baptist church emerging circa 1864 with members linked to Neely and Montgomery families and the store building that later housed the First National Bank. The present First Baptist church originated in 1874.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiny Burton
L. B. Russell
Francis Marier Cross
Uncle Marion
Comanche
Old Corn
Jess Mercer
J. M. Cross
Enoch James
Elisha Barcroft
T. I. Nabers
Jesse Mercer
M. Cross
Joe Hicks
James Ferguson
Ferguson
Johnson
Stephenville
Peter W. Gravis
Mr. Kidd
Houston
Albin, Sr
Kidd ‘Ferguson
Uncle Manse Coker
F. M. Cross
Russell
Cormanche County
Tuggle School House
Mercer’s
Helmsley
Lider Howard
Burnet County
Bynum
Burleson County
F. H. Neely
Cap
James Cunningham
Joseph Hicks
Grandma Neely
Life of America
First Baptist Church
Sam Powers
William Robinson
Robinson
Neelys
Montgomery
D. M. Cunningham
B. S. Helmsley
Tom Logan
Frank Brown
Sarah Ross