First Baptist Church of Calvert

The plaque names Alyne Guynes Muirhead among the missionaries this church sent to Brazil; a 2010 Baylor University obituary follows her family. She and her husband, Dr. H. H. Muirhead, were Baptist missionaries in Brazil. Their daughter Sudie, born in Calvert, was schooled in Recife and Rio de Janeiro, took two Baylor degrees, and taught Romance languages at Union University, the University of Texas and Baylor, where she and her husband, Warren H. Adams, taught together for most of 31 years. The family counted fifteen academic degrees, fourteen of them from Baylor.

What the plaque says

First Baptist Church of Calvert As early as 1835, Baptists were worshipping in this area. In 1868, when Calvert was founded, Houston & Texas Central Railroad donated lots for a church. Until a brick edifice was built in 1873 on that land (at Hanna and Pine), services were held in a private residence. This church was host (1875) to Baptist State Convention; (1875, 1878) the State Sunday School Convention; (1912) Hood's Texas Brigade Reunion. Sent (1907) Alyne Guynes Muirhead and (1915) Sammie Guynes Johnson as missionaries to Brazil. Since 1947, sponsors Mexican mission. Elmo Baptist Church merged with Calvert, 1969. (1972)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Calvert — 0.3 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.
• Milam County Courthouse and Jail — 20 mi
  Cameron's 1892 Renaissance Revival courthouse and the 1895 St. Louis-built jail beside it, now the county museum, are listed together on the National Register.

More markers nearby

• Sneed Memorial Methodist Church — steps away
• The Parish Carriage House — steps away
• Virginia Field Park — steps away
• Casimir Drugstore — 0.3 mi