St. John Catholic Church (of Bomarton)

Bomarton was founded in 1906, when the Wichita Valley was extended from Seymour to Abilene, and named for W. H. Bomar, an early settler. Tom McClure opened a post office in his store that year, and B. B. Calfee and J. R. Snyder ran another. A school followed in 1907, churches went up between 1908 and 1910, and two cotton gins were running by 1914. Saturday marketing and baseball made it lively, and a large open pasture served its milk cows. It held about 600 people from 1920 through 1940, then declined to fifteen by 2000.

What the plaque says

Established in 1908, when services and Masses were held in Mary's Creek Schoolhouse or in home of Matt Marak. First Church edifice was built 1909, with John Cocek, Marak, Leopold Skrehot, and Alois Sykora, trustees. Father Paul Mosler was installed as first pastor in 1910. Brick church was built in 1936. (1970)

Where it stands

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