Cedar
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 |  Subject: Rowlett Creek Cemetery (Collin County)  Sun 15 Jul 2007, 11:07 pm | |
| It first was Wilson Creek Church of United Baptists, which began gathering the faithful of frontier North-Texas -- in log cabins and under brush arbors -- as early as 1848. When the permanent site had been established for a meeting house near Rowlett Creek (northwest of present-day Allen), the congregation altered its name accordingly. Rowlett Creek Baptist Church was an elder jewel in the crown of Christian faith extending beneath the Red River. A founding body of the Elm Creek Baptist Association, this early church is said to have held its membership to a firm moral order, at a time and place when a stationary anchor was needed by the developing by a fledgling, frontier society.
Like some other rural churches during the Depression years and in the decades following, Rowlett Creek saw members of its flock begin to migrate away toward jobs and towns. This historic and influential congregation held its last regular service during the mid-1930s. Though forced to close its doors, the rolling grounds of the cemetery surrounding Rowlett Creek Baptist Church continued to be sought out as the burial place of pioneer descendents and of other residents who came to call southwestern Collin County home. Currently, this once-isolated locale is pressed on all sides by development.
More may be read about this treasured Collin-County cemetery and its associated church at several sites on the Web, including in this article, which was published by the Dallas Morning News in July 2007:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city
Other references: 'Collin County: Pioneering in North Texas,' by Capt. Roy and Helen Hall; and 'Historic Markers of Collin County,' Collin County Historical Commission, ca. 1995
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves |
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