Beaumont, TX, United States
First Baptist Church of Beaumont. The Rev. J. W. D. Creath and the Rev. J. H. Fant organized this church in 1872. Baptist and Methodist congregations joined in 1877 to erect a frame church building at the corner of Main and Fannin streets. For the belfry, the Baptists donated a bell originally used
on one of Captain W. E. Rogers' Neches River steamboats. The Rev. H. C. Weymouth became the fellowship's first resident pastor in 1882. Membership doubled after a 10-day revival led by evangelist Will
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