Overton, TX, United States
El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. Local tradition holds that the Rev. J.D. James arrived in this area circa 1840, bringing with him his family, household goods and about 300 slaves. The community that grew around his plantation became known as Jamestown. James led a local church where white resid
ents worshiped in the morning and black slaves worshiped later in the day. Initially meeting under a brush arbor, the congregation became known as El Bethel, and from it several other area congregatio
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