Baytown, TX, United States
St. Emily Methodist Church. According to oral tradition, the Methodist Episcopal Church of Old River was already located on this site when Mrs. Emily Brown, a midwife and mother of seven who had been born a slave in 1845, inherited the land from her employer. Emily deeded an acre of land to the trus
tees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which included her husband Thompson Brown, in 1881. A short time later the church was renamed St. Emily in honor of her service to both the white and black comm
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