Ebenezer Baptist Church and Cemetery

The plaque ties the church to Head's Prairie and Headsville. The Handbook of Texas places Headsville a mile west of State Highway 7 and nine miles northeast of Bremond, in Robertson County near the Limestone line, and says it was established in the 1870s. A post office was running by 1871 and had closed by 1905. J. G. Adams kept the store and was postmaster in 1885, when thirty people lived there. In 1904 a school had one teacher and fifty-four students. The community had seventy-five residents in 1915 and still appeared on a 1982 county map.

What the plaque says

Ebenezer Baptist Church and Cemetery 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

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Fort Parker — 21 mi
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• Calvert — 23 mi
  A railroad cotton town of 1868 on State Highway 6 that claimed the largest cotton gin in the world and elected Black men to county and state office during Reconstruction.

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• Bald Prairie Church of Christ — 5.2 mi
• Bald Prairie Cemetery — 5.2 mi
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