(3 miles East of Linden, TX)

By: Charles Steger

New Colony Baptist Church was established in 1889 by a "colony" of people who were primarily from South Carolina. The name was suggested by Mrs. J.T. Latham.

The Charter members were: Mr. & Mrs. John S. Carwile, Mr. & Mrs. Zachariah H. Carwile, Mr. & Mrs. E.W. Elgins, Mr. & Mrs. Hamp Washington, Mr. & Mrs. R. T. Crowson, and Mr. & Mrs. W.W. Martin.

The Carwiles had migrated to Texas in Nov. 1887 establishing a church first at New Prospect in Marion County. Soon after the establishment of the church at New Colony the John S. Carwiles removed to New Prospect where they lived until their deaths.

The New Colony organization met in homes until 1891 when a log school house was used as a meeting place. This building stood on the Zachariah H. Carwile farm on a hill behind the present church.

The 1904 Zachariah H. Carwile donated the land for the present church which was built in that year. In 1908 this building was destroyed by a cyclone, then rebuilt the following summer with the same materials.

It was Mr. Carwile's desire to be buried near thge church. When he died in 1917 he was buried on the hill behind the church. This plot later developed into the New Colony Cemetery.

The pastors to serve the church from 1899 to 1952 are as follows:

Almond, C.F. (1925-1928)
Anderson, W.H. (1916-1920)
Barnette, C.E. (1950-1952)
Busby, H.G.L. (1921-1922)
Cornelius, J.N. (1929-1937)
Curtis, A.B. (1905-1906)
Durham, M.D.(1943-1945)
Fuller, J.D. (1924-1925)
Gilmore, M.P. (1907-1908)
Gunn, N.W. (1913-1915)
Hogan, Brother (1921)
Irvin, G.C. (1922-1923)
McHann, L. (1920-1921)
Morris, W.W. (1915-1916)
Olive, J.P. (1937-1941)
Randolph, T.B. (1941-1942)
Randolph, T.B. (1947-1950)
Richardson, O.Bryon (1942-1943)
Smith, Harmon S. (1952-several years)
Stotts, L.J. (1945-1947)
Watson, T.G. (1906-1907)
Watson, T.G. (1908-1912)
Watson, T.G. (1921)
Williams, G.K. (1912-1913)
Williams, J.G. (1899-1905)
Williams, J.G. (1928-1929)

No records are available before 1899 but a Brother Echols had been an early pastor.

As published (except where formatting was web prohibitive) in This information was taken from the Cass County Connections, Vol. 24, Dec. 1998, pg. 94

This is a reprint from Vol. 1, #1, 1974
Cass County Connections is a quarterly publication put out by the Cass County Genealogical Society of Cass County, Texas.

Permission granted by Cass County Genealogical Society to Dana Thomas for publishing on The Cass County, TXGenWeb Project Pages.