​Black Jack Methodist Church
and Cemetery

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Marker No: 8430

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker 

Geographic: 30.646170, -95.459564

Location: ​Take U.S. Highway 705 south approximately 6.5 miles to FM 2296; then north on FM 2296 approximately 3.7 miles to Black Jack Cemetery Road; then northeast on Cemetery Road approximately .7 miles

Marker Text: Settlement of this area began in the 1830s. Black Jack Methodist Church was organized in 1871 and a sanctuary was built about four miles west of this site. The congregation moved here in 1886, and land for a new sanctuary and cemetery was given by Mrs. Sophronia Jane Warren. Trustees of the new church were Henry Lee Taylor, A. W. McKenzie, and Stephen Johnson. The first burial in the cemetery occurred in 1887. The church was also used as a community school until 1916. Regular church services were discontinued during the Great Depression. (1988)