WYLIE METHODIST CHURCH
Historical marker, 1994
WYLIE METHODIST CHURCH
THIS CONGREGATION TRACES ITS HISTORY TO
THE 1850s,
WHEN SEVERAL METHODIST FAMILIES MOVED TO
THIS AREA
OF COLLIN COUNTY. EARLY WORSHIP SERVICES
WERE CON-
DUCTED IN THE HOMES OF THE WILLIAM
SPURGIN AND
MARK L. MORRIS FAMILIES. THE SPURGIN
HOME, LOCATED
ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRESENT
WYLIE, BECAME
KNOWN AS SPURGIN CHAPEL. BY 1873 A
ONE-ROOM LOG
BUILDING KNOWN AS LIBERTY CHAPEL WAS
CONSTRUCTED
TO SERVE AS BOTH CHURCH AND SCHOOL. IT
WAS REPLACED
IN 1897 BY A NEW BUILDING NAMED ST. PAUL
METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH.
SETTLERS IN THE PIONEER COMMUNITY OF
NICKLEVILLE
(LATER RENAMED WYLIE) HELD WORSHIP
SERVICES IN A
SCHOOLHOUSE BUILT BY WILL H. LEE. BY
1887, LAND WAS
PURCHASED FRO A NEW SANCTUARY AND THE
FIRST WYLIE
METHODIST CHURCH WAS BUILT. IT WAS
REPLACED BY A
BRICK STRUCTURE AT THIS SITE IN 1924.
SERVED IN ITS EARLY YEARS BY
CIRCUIT-RIDING MINISTERS,
INCLUDING THE REV. JACOB B. MINNIS,
WYLIE UNITED METH-
ODIST CHURCH HAS BEEN A PART OF COLLIN
COUNTY HISTORY
FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. THE ST. PAUL
METHODIST CON-
GREGATION MERGED WITH WYLIE METHODIST IN
1946, AND
TOGETHER THE MEMBERS CONTINUE TO SERVE
THE COM-
MUNITY WITH A VARIETY OF PROGRAMS.
Wylie
Churches
Index
- Recommended citation:
- "Wylie Methodist Church,
Collin County Churches," Collin County,
Texas History and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries,
Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
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