Miscellaneous little bits of history

• A Guide to African-American Baptist Association Resources
• About Campground Cemetery

There was a Sabine Valley University at Hemphill, Sabine County, chartered June 7, 1879. “During the time of its operation, the university was under the sponsorship of the Mt. Zion Baptist Association and the Bethlehem Baptist Association.” It is unknown when it closed, but before 1910, when the property was given to the Hemphill Common School District. Sabine County, the First One-Hundred and Fifty Years (1836-1986), Robert Cecil McDaniel, Hemphill, TX: 1987, pp. 197-198. See also History of Sabine Valley University at Texas State Historical Association online. 

Is this our Mt. Zion Association, mostly in Rusk and Panola Counties, or a different one? Seems a long distance out of place for our Mt. Zion Baptist Association.

Around 1915-1917, there was quite a controversy between the Gary Baptist Church and Elder H. M. Allen. And it spilled into other churches and associations as people took sides!

From Gary, Panola Watchman, July 25, 1917

• Panola County Baptist Founders, by Leila B. LaGrone
• Cedar Grove Baptist Church history
• M. L. Vaughn, Pioneer Minister at Liberty
• Fleet Calvin Roark, great-grandson of Isaac Reed (1776-1848)