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Ebenezer Baptist Church and Cemetery

Kosse, Limestone County

Marker Text

The Ebenezer Baptist Church was organized in 1865 to serve the Head's Prairie and Headsville communities. Delegates to the Trinity Baptist Association meeting that year were J. R. Bullard, William Samuel Clark, and Thomas Seale Head, with the Rev. J. W. Kinnard as pastor. Membership grew from 41 in 1865 to 210 in 1897, but by 1958 membership had declined so that the congregation disbanded. The adjacent cemetery has served residents in this part of Limestone County since at least 1876, when both B. F. Brooks and Charley Owen were buried there. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Marker Details

Address 1 mi. S of Ebenezer Cemetery Rd. off SH 7
Location Description 1 mile S on Ebenezer Cemetery Rd. off of SH 7, 7 mile E of Kosse
Marker # 1374
Dedicated 1986
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code cemetery; Baptist denomination; churches
Latitude, Longitude 31.26865, -96.500583

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