Presbyterian Church of old Shiloh in Red River County in the year 1833. This worthy man had a long ministry in south-central Texas, and died in his adopted State April 28, 1882, at Dodge, in Walker County. The first Presbytery organized in Texas was by Milton Estill at Clarksville, Red River County.

One of the earliest preachers was Samuel W. Frazier, who came to Texas in 1838. He had a brief ministry, yet he left a lasting memory of his stirring sermons all over eastern Texas. So greatly had he impressed his hearers that old men would shed tears at the mention of his name. He died in Houston, while serving as a Chaplain of the Senate in the Third Congress of the Republic of Texas. The Rev. James Sampson preached the opening sermon of the first Red River Presbytery in Texas, December, 1842, and that grand old man, Rev. Samuel Corley, was the clerk. John McKee was the other minister present, which made the first quorum. The first act of this Presbytery was to call for candidates for the ministry, whereupon the Rev. Gilbert Clark, brother of James Clark who founded Clarksville, came forward, was examined, received, and licensed to preach.

"Rev. Samuel Corley came to Clarksville from Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1840 to be the first pastor of the Shiloh and adjacent churches. He came up Red River by boat, landed at old Roland on Red River, northeast of Clarksville, thence to the home of the Rev. James Sampson.