Tyler, TX, United States
First Baptist Church of Tyler. Organized on April 8, 1848, with six charter members, this congregation first met in a log cabin courthouse on the town square. Led by elders W. H. Ray and W. B. Langston, services were held monthly, with members being called by the blowing of a horn. After a new court
house was built in 1851, the church met in the Odd Fellows Hall and the U. S. Federal courtroom. In 1855, a building was erected to serve as both church and school, but it was soon destroyed in a fire
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