Silsbee, TX, United States
First United Methodist Church of Silsbee Methodist worship services began in Silsbee as part of a mission effort in 1901, when the community was a company town, a part of the lumbering and railroad operations of John Henry Kirby. Early Sunday School classes were held in an old passenger coach parked
on a railroad siding, and the community was served in part by circuit riders from the Beaumont district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1904, Mattison Lonzo Storey, a ministerial student
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