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From: "Cecelia" <>
Subject: Re: [TXFALLS] Powers Chapel Cemetery
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:04:37 -0600
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That's interesting. There is information on Sneed on the Robertson County,
Texas Gen Web site. Also in A HISTORY OF ROBERTSON COUNTY, TEXAS by Baker.
The Sneed Memorial Methodist Church in Calvert was named for him. I went to
school with one of his descendants, and his grandmother lived near me,
across the street from the park.
The Sneed family land is in Milam county, and the cemetery where the circuit
rider Sneed is buried.
I believe they came from Tennessee, or, at least, some of that family did.
I have pictures from my grandmother's family, taken by a Sneed Studio in
Tennessee, that I have been trying to determine if they were possibly
related to the one in Robertson county.




Powers Chapel church had a circuit riding preacher by the name of Snead and
I believe they alternated between Methodist and Baptist. Phyllis

Do you know the church affiliation of Powers Chapel? Somehow I believe it
might have been Methodist. I wondered if there might be a church history
and also where the records were eventually stored when the church ceased to
function. I feel confident that many of my family members attended that
church.
Karolyn

>From: phyllis brooks


>
>Karolyn and Jerry, My Mother, the late Pauline Ray Brooks compiled and
>published POWERS CHAPEL GLEANINGS A History of Falls County. My cousin
>John Pearson compiled the listing of those buried in Powers Chapel
>Cemetery. I plan to enter the booklet on the Internet due to the cost of
>publishing has increased since the early 70's.
>
> I am from Waco but cut my baby teeth (literally) visiting my great aunt
>Maud Scarborough who with her husband Louie Pearson continued selling items
>from the original Pearson store located at Wilderville. Due to realignment
>of the highway, a new one was built in the early 50's as I recall and is
>still there under new owners. I am a Scarborough, Boyd and Ray descendant
>in Falls County. Phyllis Brooks
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