Gatesville vicinity, TX, United States
Bethel Heights Baptist Church. A number of German immigrants who came to Texas in the 1880s settled near Coryell City and west of Gatesville. They organized the German Bethel Baptist Church with eleven members and the Rev. Julius E. Sydow in 1886, meeting in a schoolhouse east of Coryell City. The R
ev. Mr. Sydow was soon alternating services between Coryell City and Gatesville as the area's German Baptist population grew. By 1889 each group had its own Sunday school with officers and a church cl
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