Update on Elder M. S. Bourland

After writing about Melton Stuard Bourland in May of last year, I found some more information that I had not noticed at the time.

The Bourlands were in Texas at least by March of 1867, when he was present on “Saturday before the first Sabbath in March” at the Union Baptist Church near Nacogdoches, and conducted the divine services. At the conference of Union Church the next month – Saturday before the first Sabbath in April – “Elder M. S. Bourland and Sister S. A. Bourland presented a letter from Liberty Church Kentucky and were received.” This suggests the Bourlands may have first settled in East Texas near Nacogdoches.