Wesley Chapel Church and Cemetery

Eliza Bishop's account on the Houston County TXGenWeb site traces Wesley Chapel to a deed of February 7, 1903, from James C. Wootters to the trustees of the Crockett Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. She says the Crockett Station then had four pastors, serving Grapeland, Augusta, Kennard and Crockett. No post office, stage stop or town plat was ever recorded here. School records for 1904-05 list 47 pupils, and an election on August 13, 1949, annexed the district to Latexo by 45 votes to 1.

What the plaque says

Wesley Chapel Church and Cemetery A Methodist church was built here in 1903 and named in honor of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. In 1913 a two-room schoolhouse was erected to replace an earlier one-room structure. The school was consolidated with Latexo in 1949. Both the school and church buildings were destroyed by a tornado in 1953. An adjacent cemetery dates to the 1880s, with the earliest marked graves from 1885. Although regular worship services had ended by 1949, the chapel was rebuilt after the tornado and serves as a gathering place for the cemetery association. (1987)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 28 mi
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• Fort Boggy State Park — 29 mi
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More markers nearby

• John Wortham — 3.9 mi
• Town of Latexo — 4.3 mi
• Hall Cemetery — 4.4 mi
• Vicory Barker Tunstall — 5.1 mi