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Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Comanche vicinity, Comanche County

Marker Text

Organized under a brush arbor, with 21 charter members, Oct. 16, 1892. First pastor, F. M. Herring, and E. M. Moore, Jesse Cunningham and C. C. McCurdy composed the presbytery. Will Dewitt gave land, Nov. 26, 1892, on which the first building was dedicated, May 1893. Tabernacle was built in 1906 and present church, 1913. The charter members were The Revs. and Mmes. Frank Herring and Jim Fagan; Messrs. and Mmes. Will Dewitt, Jake Hodges, John Cameron, Dave Coker, Alfred Loftis and J. A. Payne; also Mrs. E. B. Farmer, Beckie Leech, Green West, Cordelia McNutt, Z. K. Smith. (1969)

Marker Details

Address
Location Description From Comanche, take FM 2247 north about 2.5 miles to church (east side of road).
Marker # 3496
Dedicated 1969
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code Baptist denomination; churches
Latitude, Longitude 31.936364, -98.611567

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